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Contents 1 Etudes 2 Activités passées et présentes 2.1 Postes occupés 2.2 Domaines de recherche 2.3 Cours créés 2.4 Fonctions administratives 2.5 Comités d'organisation de conférences 2.6 Comités d'édition de revues 2.7 Activités de coopération 3 Prix 4 Références 5 Papers and Conference Proceedings 5.1 2009 5.2 2008 5.3 2007 5.4 2006 5.5 2005

Etudes

1969

Baccalauréat du Colegio Santa Librada (Cali, Colombie)

1975

Ingénieur électricien de l'Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombie)

1985

Docteur ès sciences techniques de l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Suisse)

Activités passées et présentes

Postes occupés

1975-76

Professeur-assistant à l'Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombie)

1976-78

Boursier à l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

1978-85

Assistant à l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

1981-90

Chargé de cours à l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

1985-90

Premier assistant à l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

1995-00

Chargé de cours à l'Ecole d'Ingénieurs de l'Etat de Vaud

1989-

Professeur invité à l'Université de Fribourg

1990-

Professeur titulaire à l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2001-

Professeur invité du Master Alari de l'Université de Lugano

2003-

Professeur à la Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud

2006-

Doyen de la Faculté IC de la HEIG-VD

Domaines de recherche

• Microprogrammation: découverte d'une méthode de minimisation des algorithmes de décision binaire.
• Architecture des processeurs: collaboration à la conception et réalisation de plusieurs processeurs à architecture dédiée, dont certains ont été commercialisés.
• Systèmes reconfigurables: application des circuits de type FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) à la réalisation des processeurs reconfigurables, adaptables à l'application.
• Conception des circuits digitaux bio-inspirés: utilisation de certaines caractéristiques des êtres vivants pour concevoir des circuits digitaux auto-réparables et évolutifs. Coordinateur du projet de recherche européen Perplexus (www.perplexus.org).

Cours créés

• Introduction aux systèmes informatiques (EPFL)
• Architecture des ordinateurs (EPFL)
• Conception avancée de systèmes numériques (EPFL)
• Systèmes bio-inspirés (Université de Fribourg)
• Conception des processeurs (Université de Fribourg)
• Reconfigurable systems (Université de Lugano)
• System on programmable chip (HEIG-VD)

Fonctions administratives

Président du Comité informatique (CI) de l'EPFL (2002-2003).

Comités d'organisation de conférences

• Program Committee: ICES - International Conference on Evolvable Systems.
• Program Committee: AHS - NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems.
• Program Committee: RSP - IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping.
• Program Committee: SYMPA - Symposium en Architecture de Machines.
• Program Committee: IPCAT - International Workshop on Information Proceesing in Cells and Tissues.
• Program Committee: Bio-ADIT - International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology

Comités d'édition de revues

Associate Editor: Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell (MA, USA)

Activités de coopération

Fondateur et premier président, en 1992, de l'Association colombienne de chercheurs en Suisse (ACIS).

Prix

• Polysphère 2007

Meilleur enseignant de la Faculté IC de l'EPFL Prix accordé par l'Agepoly, Association des étudiants de l'EPFL

• NASA/ASE AHS 2007 Conference prize in the category of Future and Emerging

Technologies Edinburgh, 5th - 8th August, 2007

Références

• Professeur Daniel Mange

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

EPFL IC ISIM GR-SAN

Station 14

1015 Lausanne

• Professeur Giovanni de Micheli

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

EPFL IC ISIM LSI1

Station 14

1015 Lausanne

• Professeur Mateo Valero

Departament d'arquitectura de computadors

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

E-08034 Barcelona (Espagne)

• Professeur Paolo Ienne

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

EPFL IC ISIM LAP

Station 14

1015 Lausanne

• Dr. Christian Piguet

Centre Suisse d'Electronique et Microtechnique

Maladière 71

2007 Neuchâtel (Suisse)

• Daniel Gorostidi

Elca Informatique SA

Av. de la Harpe 22-24

1000 Lausanne 13

Eduardo SANCHEZ

Publications (1993-)

Papers and Conference Proceedings

2009

1. O. Jorand, A. Perez-Uribe, H. Volken, A. Upegui, Y. Thoma, E. Sanchez, F. Mondada, Ph. Retornaz. Noise and bias for free: PERPLEXUS as a material platform for embodied thought-experiments. Proceedings of Adaptive and Emergent Behaviour and Complex Systems Convention (AISB 2009), Edinburgh, April 6-9, 2009.

2008

1. A. Upegui, Y. Thoma, E. Sanchez, A. Perez-Uribe, J. M. Moreno, J. Madrenas, G. Sassatelli. The PERPLEXUS bio-inspired hardware platform: A flexible and modular approach. International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, IOS Press, Vol 12, Number 3, pp. 201-212, 2008.
2. A. Upegui, A. Perez-Uribe, Y. Thoma, Eduardo Sanchez. Neural Development on the Ubichip by Means of Dynamic Routing Mechanisms. Hornby et al. (Eds.): ICES 2008, LNCS 5216, pp. 392–401, 2008.
3. O. Brousse, G. Sassatelli, T. Gil, M. Robert, F. Grize, E. Sanchez, A. Upegui, Y. Thoma. The Perplexus Programming Framework: Combining Bio-inspiration and Agent-Oriented Programming for the Simulation of Large Scale Complex Systems. G.S. Hornby et al. (Eds.): ICES 2008, LNCS 5216, pp. 402–407, 2008.
4. A. Upegui, Y. Thoma, A. Perez-Uribe, E. Sanchez. Dynamic routing on the ubichip: toward synaptogenetic neural networks. D. Keymeulen, T. Arslan, M. Suess, A. Stoica, A. Erdogan, and D. Merodio editors, 3rd NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS 2008), pages 228-235, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, Jun. 2008. IEEE Computer Society.
5. A. Upegui, E. Sanchez. Evolvable FPGAs. Book chapter in ”Reconfigurable Computing: The Theory and Practice of FPGA-Based Computation”, edited by Scott Hauck and Andre DeHon, pages 725-752 Morgan Kaufmann, USA, 2008.

2007

1. Y. Thoma, A. Upegui, A. Perez-Uribe, E. Sanchez. Self-Replication Mechanism by Means of Self-Reconfiguration. Workshop Proceedings at the 20th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 07). Zurich, Switzerland, March 2007.
2. A. Upegui, Y. Thoma, E. Sanchez, A. Perez-Uribe, J. M. Moreno, J. Madrenas. The perplexus bio-inspired reconfigurable circuit. T. Arslan, A. Stoica, M. Suess, D. Keymeulen, T. Higuchi, R. Zebulum, and A. T. Erdogan, editors, Second NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS 2007), pages 600-605, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, Aug. 2007. IEEE Computer Society.
3. E. Sanchez, A. Perez-Uribe, A. Upegui, Y. Thoma, J. M. Moreno, A. Villa, H. Volken, Napieralski, G. Sassatelli, E. Lavarec. PERPLEXUS: Pervasive Computing Framework for Modeling Complex Virtually-Unbounded Systems. T. Arslan, A. Stoica, M. Suess, D.Keymeulen, T. Higuchi, R. Zebulum, and A. T. Erdogan, editors, Second NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS 2007), pages 587-591, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, Aug. 2007. IEEE Computer Society.

2006

1. A. Lagger, A. Upegui, E. Sanchez. Self-Reconfigurable Pervasive Platform for Cryptographic Aplication. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL-06), Madrid - Spain, 2006.
2. A. Upegui, E. Sanchez. Evolving Hardware with Self-Reconfigurable Connectivity in Xilinx FPGAs. Proceedings of the 1st NASA /ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems(AHS-2006), Istanbul - Turkey, pages 153-160, IEEE Computer Society, 2006.
3. A. Upegui, E. Sanchez. On-chip and On-line Self-Reconfigurable Adaptable Platform: the Non-Uniform Cellular Automata Case. Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS06), Rhodes - Greece, page 206, IEEE Computer Society, 2006.
4. M. Melgarejo, C. A. Peña-Reyes, E. Sanchez. A Genetic-Fuzzy System Approach To Control a Model of the HIV Infection Dynamics. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ IEEE 2006), Vancouver, 2006.
5. E. Jodoin, C. A. Peña-Reyes, E. Sanchez. A Method for the Fuzzification of Categorical Variables. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ IEEE 2006), Vancouver, 2006.
6. J. Peña, A. Upegui, E. Sanchez. Particle Swarm Optimization with Discrete Recombination: An Online Optimizer for Evolvable Hardware. 1st NASA/ESA Conference On Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2006), Istanbul, 2006.

2005

• A. Upegui, C. A. Peña-Reyes, E. Sanchez. An FPGA Platform for On-line Topology Exploration of Spiking Neural Networks. Microprocessors and Microsystems, pp. 211- 223, Vol. 29, Issue 5 (June), 2005. • G. Mermoud, A. Upegui, C. A. Peña-Reyes, E. Sanchez. A Dynamically-Reconfigurable FPGA Platform for Evolving Fuzzy Systems. In J. Cabestany, A. Prieto, F. Sandoval (eds.), Computational Intelligence and Bioinspired Systems, IWANN 2005, Vol. 3512 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 572-581, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005. • J. M. Moreno, Y. Thoma, E. Sanchez, J. Eriksson, J. Iglesias, A. Villa. The POEtic Electronic Tissue and its Role in the Emulation of Large-Scale Biologically Inspired Spiking Neural Networks Models. Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems, ECCS'05, Paris, November, 2005. • A. Upegui, R. Moeckel, E. Dittrich, A. Ijspeert, E. Sanchez. An FPGA Dynamically Reconfigurable Framework for Modular Robotics. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS'05, pp. 83-89, Innsbruck (Austria), March, 2005. • A. Upegui, E. Sanchez. Evolving Hardware by Dynamically Reconfiguring Xilinx FPGAs. Proceedings of the Internatiuonal Conference on Evolvable Systems, ICES'05, Barcelona (Spain), September, 2005. • J. M. Moreno, Y. Thoma, E. Sanchez. POEtic: A Prototyping Platform for Bio-inspired Hardware. Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolvable Systems, ICES'05, Barcelona (Spain), September, 2005. 2004 • Y. Thoma, G. Tempesti, E. Sanchez, J.-M. Moreno. POEtic : An Electronic Tissue for Bioinspired Cellular Applications. BioSystems, pp. 191-200, 74: 1-3, 2004. • D. Roggen, Y. Thoma, E. Sanchez. An Evolving and Developing Cellular Electronic Circuit. In J. Pollack, M. Bedau, P. Husbands, T. Ikegami, R. A. Watson (eds.), Artificial Life IX, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, pp. 33-38, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2004. • Y. Thoma, E. Sanchez. A Reconfigurable Chip for Evolvable Hardware. In Kalyanmoy Deb et al. (eds.), Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, GECCO 2004, vol. 3102 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 816-827, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2004. • Y. Thoma, E. Sanchez, D. Roggen, C. Hetherington, J.-M. Moreno. Prototyping with a Bio- Inspired Reconfigurable Chip. In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid Prototyping, RSP 2004, pp. 239-246, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, Calif., 2004. • J.-M. Moreno, Y. Thoma, E. Sanchez, O. Torres, G. Tempesti. Hardware Realization of a Bio-Inspired POEtic Tissue. In R. S. Zebulum et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 2004 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, pp. 237-244, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, Calif., 2004. • A. Upegui, C. A. Peña-Reyes, E. Sanchez. A Hardware Implementation of a Network of Functional Spiking Neurons with Hebbian Learning. In A. J. Ijspeert, D. Mange, M. Murata, S. Nishio (eds.), BioADIT 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3141, pp. 233-243, Springer-Verlag, 2004. 2003 • M. Canella, F. Miglioli, A. Bogliolo, E. Petraglio. E. Sanchez. Performing DNA Comparison on a Bio-Inspired Tissue of FPGAs. Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS'03, pp. 1-7, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, Calif., 2003. • A. Tyrrell, E. Sanchez, D. Floreano, G. Tempesti, D. Mange, J.-M. Moreno, J. Rosenberg, A. Villa. POEtic Tissue : An Integrated Architecture for Bio-Inspired Hardware. In A. M. Tyrrell, P. C. Hadow, J. Torresen (eds.), Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, Volume 2606 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 129-140, Springer, Berlin, 2003. • G. Tempesti, D. Roggen, E. Sanchez, Y. Thoma, R. Canham, A. Tyrrell. Ontogenetic Development and Fault Tolerance in the POEtic Tissue. In A. M. Tyrrell, P. C. Hadow, J. Torresen (eds.), Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, Volume 2606 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 129-140, Springer, Berlin, 2003. • A. Upegui, C. A. Pena-Reyes, E. Sanchez. A Functional Spiking Neuron Hardware Oriented Model. In J. Mira, J. R. Alvarez (eds.), Computational Methods in Neural Modeling, Volume 2686 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 136-143, Springer, Berlin, 2003. • C. A. Pena-Reyes, R. Villa, L. Prieto, E. Sanchez. COBRA: An Evolved Online Tool for Mammography Interpretation. In J. Mira, J. R. Alvarez (eds.), Computational Methods in Neural Modeling, Volume 2686 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 726-733, Springer, Berlin, 2003. • Y. Thoma, G. Tempesti, E. Sanchez, J.-M. Moreno Arostegui. POEtic: An Electronic Tissue for Bio-Inspired Cellular Applications. In IPCAT 2003, Fifth International Workshop on Information Proceesing in Cells and Tissues, Workshop Pre-Proceedings, pp. 199-214. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 2003. • Y. Thoma, E. Sanchez, J. M. Moreno Arostegui, G. Tempesti. Un Sistema de Enrutamiento Dinámico para un Circuito Reconfigurable Bio-Inspirado. In E. B. Scalvinoni, F. G. Arribas, S. Lopez-Buedo, G. S. Capristo, (eds.), Computación Reconfigurable & FPGAs, pp. 27-37, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 2003. • Y. Thoma, E. Sanchez, J.-M. Moreno Arostegui, G. Tempesti. A Dynamic Routing Algorithm for a Bio-inspired Reconfigurable Circuit. In P. Y. K. Cheung, G. A. Constantinides, J. T. de Sousa, (eds.), Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, Volume 2778 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 681-690, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2003. 2002 • J.-L. Beuchat, J.-O. Haenni, H.-F. Restrepo, C. Teuscher, F. Gomez, E. Sanchez. Approches Matérielles et Logicielles de l'Algorithme de Chiffrement IDEA. Technique et Science Informatiques, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2002, pp. 203-224. • B. Mesot, E. Sanchez, C.-A. Peña, A. Perez-Uribe. SOS++: Finding Smart Behaviors Using Learning and Evolution. In R. K. Standish, M. A. Bedau, H. A. Abbass (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Life, Artificial Life VIII, pp. 264-273, Bradford Books, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2003. • G. Tempesti, D. Roggen, E. Sanchez, Y. Thoma, R. Canham, A. Tyrrell, J.-M. Moreno. A POEtic Architecture for Bio-Inspired Hardware. In R. K. Standish, M. A. Bedau, H. A. Abbass (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Life, Artificial Life VIII, pp. 111-115, Bradford Books, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2003. • Y. Thoma, E. Sanchez. CoDeNios: A Function Level Co-Design Tool. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, WCAE 2002, pp. 73-78. Anchorage, Alaska, 2002. • R. Hoffmann, E. Sanchez. Vers un Processeur VLIW/MOVE à Composantes Sérielles : Principes de Base de l'Architecture. Actes du 8ème Symposium en Architectures Nouvelles, SympA'8, pp. 241-248, Hammamet (Tunisie), avril 2002. • J.-M. Moreno Aróstegui, E. Sanchez. Arquitectura para un Tejido Electrónico Reconfigurable POE. Actas de II Jornadas sobre Computación Reconfigurable y Aplicaciones, JCRA-2002. Granada (Espagne), septembre 2002. 2001 • D. Mange, E. Sanchez, A. Stauffer, G. Tempesti, P. Marchal, C. Piguet (Invited Paper) Embryonics: A New Methodology for Designing Field-Programmable Gate Arrays with Self-Repair and Self-Replicating Properties. In G. De Micheli, R. Ernst, and W. Wolf (eds.), Readings in Hardware/Software Co-Design, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, pp.643- 655, 2001. • E. Sanchez, A. Perez-Uribe, B. Messot. Solving Partially Observable Problems by Evolution and Learning of Finite-State Machines. In Y. Liu, K. Tanaka, M. Iwata, T. Higuchi, M. Yasunaga (Eds.), Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, ICES 2001, Vol. 2210 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 267-278, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001. • J.-M. Moreno, E. Sanchez, J. Cabestany. An In-System Routing Strategy for Evolvable Hardware Programmable Platforms. Proceedings, The Third NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, pp. 157-166, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, 2001. • D. Madon, E. Sanchez, S. Monnier. Mise en Oeuvre d'un Processeur de Type SMT. Technique et Science Informatiques, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2001, pp. 31-51. • C. Teuscher and E. Sanchez. A Revival of Turing's Forgotten Connectionist Ideas: Exploring Unorganized Machines. Connectionist Models of Learning, Development and Evolution. Proceedings of the Sixth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, NCPW6, Liège, Belgium, 16-18 September, 2000. R. M. French and J. J. Sougné (eds.), pages 153-162, Springer-Verlag, London, 2001. • C. Teuscher and E. Sanchez. Self-Organizing Topology Evolution of Turing Neural Networks. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN'2001, August 21-25, 2001, Vienna, Austria. G. Dorffner, H. Bischof, and K. Hornik (editors), pages 820-826, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2130, Springer- Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2001. • J.-M. Moreno, E. Sanchez, J. Cabestany. A Configurable Hardware Platform for Implementing Bio-inspired Hardware Models. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, MIXDES 2001, pp. 21-23 (CD ROM), Zakopane (Poland), 2001. • J.-M. Moreno, E. Sanchez, J. Cabestany. Estrategia de Rutado Integrada para Dispositivos Programables. Actas de las I Jornadas sobre Computación Reconfigurable y Aplicaciones, pp. 89-94, Alicante (Spain), 2001. 2000 • M. Sipper, E. Sanchez, J.-O. Haenni, J.-L. Beuchat, A. Stauffer, A. Perez-Uribe. From Configurable Circuits to Bio-Inspired Systems. In H.-N. Teodorescu, D. Mlynek, A. Kandel, H. J. Zimmermann (Eds.), Intelligent Systems and Interfaces, pp. 91-128, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. • M. Sipper, E. Sanchez. Configurable Chips Meld Software and Hardware. IEEE Computer, Vol. 33, No. 1, January 2000, pp. 120-121. • C. Ciressan, E. Sanchez, M. Rajman, J.-C. Chappelier. An FPGA-Based Coprocessor for the Parsing of Context-Free Grammars. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Field- Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM'00, pp. 236-245, Napa, 2000. • C. Ciressan, M. Rajman, E. Sanchez, J.-C. Chappelier. Towards VLP Co-Processing: An FPGA Implementation of a Context-Free Parser. Proceedings of the TALN 2000 Conference, pp. 91-100, Lausanne, 2000. • H.-F. Restrepo, R. Hoffmann, A. Perez, C. Teuscher, E. Sanchez. A Networked FPGA-Based Hardware Implementation of a Neural Network Application. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM'00, pp. 337- 338, Napa, 2000. • R. Levy, S. Lepri, E. Sanchez, G. Ritter, M. Sipper. Slate of the Art: An Evolving FPGA-Based Board for Handwritten-Digit Recognition. Proceedings of The 2nd NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, pp. 237-243, Silicon Valley, July 13-15, 2000. • C. Teuscher, E. Sanchez, M. Sipper. Romero's Odyssey to Santa Fe: From Simulation to Real Life. In M. Jamshidi, A. M. Maciejewski, R. Lumia and S. Nahavandi (eds.), Robotics and Manufacturing Systems: Recent Results in Research, Development and Applications, World Automation Congress, WAC 2000. TSI Press Series, Albuquerque, 2000, pp. 262-267. • J.-L. Beuchat, J.-O. Haenni, C. Teuscher, F. Gomez, H.-F. Restrepo, E. Sanchez. Une Comparaison entre quelques Implantations Logicielles et Matérielles de l'Algorithme de Chiffrement IDEA. Actes du 6ème Symposium en Architectures Nouvelles de Machines, SympA'6, pp. -, Besançon, juin 2000. • F.-J. Gomez, G. Galeano, H.-F. Restrepo, J.-O. Haenni, C. Teuscher, E. Sanchez. Labomat: Un Entorno Completo para el Aprendizaje de Técnicas de Codiseño Utilizando una Plataforma Reconfigurable. Actes du IV Congreso de Tecnologías Aplicadas a la Enseñanza de la Electrónica, TAEE2000, Vol. II, pp. 549-552, Barcelona, septembre 2000. 1999 • M. Sipper, D. Mange, E. Sanchez. Quo Vadis Evolvable Hardware?. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 42, No. 4, April 1999, pp. 50-56. • E. Sanchez, M. Sipper, J.-O. Haenni, J.-L. Beuchat, A. Stauffer, A. Pérez-Uribe. Static and Dynamic Configurable Systems. IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 48, No. 6, June 1999, pp. 556-564. • A. Perez-Uribe, E. Sanchez. A Digital Brain Architecture for Mobile Autonomous Robots. Proceedings of the AROB'4th'99, Oita (Japan), January 19-22, 1999, pp. 240-243. • A. Perez-Uribe, E. Sanchez. A Comparison of Reinforcement Learning with Eligibility Traces and Integrated Learning, Planning and Reacting. In M. Mohammadian (ed.), Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control & Automation CIMCA'99, 1999, pp. 154-159. • A. Perez-Uribe, E. Sanchez. Structure Adaption in Artificial Neural Networks through Adaptive Clustering and through Growth in State Space. In J. Mira and J. V. SanchezAndres (Eds.), Foundations and Tools for Neural Modeling, volume 1606 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 556-565, Springer, Berlin, 1999. • J.-L. Beuchat, E. Sanchez. Using On-Line Arithmetic and Reconfiguration for Neuroprocessor Implementation. In J. Mira and J. V. Sanchez-Andres (Eds.), Engineering Applications of Bio-Inspired Artificial Neural Networks, volume 1607 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 129-138, Springer, Berlin, 1999. • G. Ritter, J.-M. Puiatti, E. Sanchez. Leonardo and Discipulus Simplex: An Autonomous, Evolvable Six-Legged Walking Robot. In J. Rolim et al. (Eds.), Parallel and Distributed Processing, volume 1586 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 688-696, Springer, Berlin, 1999. • J.-L. Beuchat, E. Sanchez. An On-Line Arithmetic-Based Reconfigurable Neuroprocessor. In J. Rolim et al. (Eds.), Parallel and Distributed Processing, volume 1586 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 700-702, Springer, Berlin, 1999. • E. Mosanya, E. Sanchez. An FPGA-Based Hardware Implementation of Generalized Profile Search Using On-Line Arithmetic. Proceedings of ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on FPGAs, pp. 101-111, Monterrey (USA), February, 1999. • C. Teuscher, J.-O. Haenni, F. J. Gomez, H. F. Restrepo, E. Sanchez. A Reconfigurable Platform for Academic Purposes. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Field- Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM'99, pp. 282-283, Napa, 1999. • D. Madon, E. Sanchez, S. Monnier. Etude d'Implémentation d'un Processeur du Type SMT (Simultaneous Multithreaded). Actes du 5ème Symposium en Architectures Nouvelles de Machines, SympA'5, pp. 151-164, Rennes, 8-11 juin 1999. • J.-O. Haenni, C. Teuscher, F. J. Gomez, H. F. Restrepo, E. Sanchez. Une Plate-Forme pour l'Enseignement et le Prototypage d'Architectures Reconfigurables. Actes du 5ème Symposium en Architectures Nouvelles de Machines, SympA'5, pp. 93-103, Rennes, 8- 11 juin 1999. • E. Mosanya, E. Sanchez. Arithmétique en Ligne pour l'Implémentation Matérielle de la Recherche de Motifs par Profils Généralisés. Actes du 5ème Symposium en Architectures Nouvelles de Machines, SympA'5, pp. 115-128, Rennes, 8-11 juin 1999. • C. Teuscher, E. Sanchez, M. Sipper. ROMERO: Un Pèlerinage Robotique à Santa Fe. Actes des Journées des Jeunes Chercheurs, 11ème édition, pp. 145-150, Lausanne, avril 1999. • D. Madon, E. Sanchez, S. Monnier. A Study of a Simultaneous Multithreaded Processor Implementation, in P. Amestoy et al. (eds.), Euro-Par'99 Parallel Processing, pp. 716-726, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999. • F. J. Gomez, E. Sanchez. Teaching Digital Systems Using Dynamic Reconfiguration. Proceedings of the XIV Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems Conference, DCIS'99, pp. 75-80, Palma de Mallorca, 1999. • C. Teuscher, J.-O. Haenni, F.-J. Gomez, H.-F. Restrepo, E. Sanchez. A Tool for Teaching and Research on Computer Architecture and Reconfigurable Systems. Proceedings of the 25th Euromicro Conference, vol. 1, pp. 343-350, Milan, September 8-10, 1999. • E. Mosanya, C. Teuscher, H.-F. Restrepo, P. Galley, E. Sanchez. Crypto-Booster: A Reconfigurable and Modular Cryptographic Coprocessor, in C. K. Koç, C. Paar (eds.), Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, pp. 246-256, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999. 1998 • J.-L. Beuchat, J.-O. Haenni, E. Sanchez. Hardware Reconfigurable Neural Networks. In J. Rolim, editor, Parallel and Distributed Processing, volume 1388 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 91-98, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998. • A. Pérez-Uribe, E. Sanchez. Blackjack as a Test Bed for Learning Strategies in Neural Networks, 1998 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN '98, Anchorage, May 4-9, 1998, Vol. 3, pp. 2022-2027. • J.-L. Beuchat, J.-O. Haenni, E. Bruchez, E. Sanchez. Une plate-forme pour le développement et le prototypage de systèmes reconfigurables, Informatik•Informatique, No 1, février 1998, pp. 21-24. • J.-O. Haenni, J.-L. Beuchat, E. Sanchez. RENCO: A Reconfigurable Network Computer, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM '98, Napa, USA, April 15-17, 1998, pp. 288-289. • E. Mosanya, J.-M. Puiatti, E. Sanchez. Hardware Implementation of Generalized Profile Search on the GENSTORM Machine, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Field- Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM '98, Napa, USA, April 15-17, 1998, pp. 290-291. • D. Mange, E. Sanchez, A. Stauffer, G. Tempesti, P. Marchal, C. Piguet. Embryonics: A New Methodology for Designing Field-Programmable Gate Arrays with Self-Repair and Self- Replicating Properties. IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, vol. 6, no. 3, September 1998, pp. 387-399. • M. Sipper, E. Sanchez, D. Mange, M. Tomassini, A. Perez-Uribe, A. Stauffer. An Introduction to Bio-Inspired Machines. In D. Mange, M. Tomassini (eds.). Bio-Inspired Computing Machines. PPUR, Lausanne, 1998, pp. 1-12. • E. Sanchez. An Introduction to Digital Systems. In D. Mange, M. Tomassini (eds.). Bio- Inspired Computing Machines. PPUR, Lausanne, 1998, pp. 13-48. • J.-M. Puiatti, C. Piguet, E. Sanchez, J. Llosa. Low-Power VLIW Processors: A High-Level Evaluation. PATMOS'98, Lyngby (Denmark), October 7-9, 1998, pp. 399-408. • M. Sipper, G. Tempesti, D. Mange, E. Sanchez. Guest Editors' Introduction Von Neumann's Legacy: Special Issue on Self-Replication. Artificial Life, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1998, pp. iii-iv. • J.-M. Puiatti, E. Sanchez, C. Piguet, J. Llosa. VLIW Architectures for Low-Power Processors: A First Evaluation. Proceedings of the 24th European Solid-State Circuits Conference, ESSCIRC'98, The Hague, September 22-24, 1998, pp. 436-439. 1997 • C. Iseli, E. Sanchez. SPYDER: un processeur reconfigurable réalisé à l'aide de circuits FPGA, "Calculateurs parallèles", Vol. 9, no 1, 1997, pp. 29-43. • A. Pérez-Uribe, E. Sanchez. Speeding-Up Adaptive Heuristic Critic Learning with FPGABased Unsupervised Clustering, "Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC '97)", Indianapolis, April 13-16, 1997, pp. 685-689. • M. Sipper, M. Goeke, D. Mange, A. Stauffer, E. Sanchez, M. Tomassini. The Firefly Machine: Online Evolware, "Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC '97)", Indianapolis, April 13-16, 1997, pp. 181-186. • A. Pérez-Uribe, E. Sanchez. Structure-Adaptable Neurocontrollers: A Hardware-Friendly Approach, "International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, IWANN '97", Lanzarote (Spain), June 4-6, 1997, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 1251-1259. • E. Sanchez, D. Mange, M. Sipper, M. Tomassini, A. Pérez-Uribe, A. Stauffer. Phylogeny, Ontogeny, and Epigenesis: Three Sources of Biological Inspiration for Softening Hardware. In T. Higuchi, M. Iwata and W. Liu, editors, Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, volume 1259 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 35-54. Springer- Verlag, Berlin, 1997. • M. Goeke, M. Sipper, D. Mange, A. Stauffer, E. Sanchez, M. Tomassini. Online Autonomous Evolware. In T. Higuchi, M. Iwata and W. Liu, editors, Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, volume 1259 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 96- 106. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1997. • M. Sipper, E. Sanchez, D. Mange, M. Tomassini, A. Pérez-Uribe, A. Stauffer. A Phylogenetic, Ontogenetic, and Epigenetic View of Bio-Inspired Hardware Systems, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 1, No 1, April 1997, pp. 83-97. • M. Sipper, E. Sanchez, D. Mange, M. Tomassini, A. Pérez-Uribe, A. Stauffer. The POE Model of Bio-Inspired Hardware Systems: A Short Introduction. In J. Koza & al., editors, Genetic Programming 1997, Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference, pp. 510- 511. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 1997. • A. Pérez-Uribe, E. Sanchez. FPGA Implementation of a Network of Neuronlike Adaptive Elements. In W. Gerstner, A. Germond, M. Hasler, J.-D. Nicoud, editors, Artificial Neural Networks, volume 1327 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 1247-1252. Springer- Verlag, Berlin, 1997. • S. Durand, P. Marchal, P. Nussbaum, C. Piguet, D. Mange, E. Sanchez, A. Stauffer, G. Tempesti. Life Organization as a Source of Inspiration for Self-Repairing VLSI, Proceedings of The XVIII World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Nice, September 14-19, 1997, p. 87. • E. Bruchez, J. -O. Haenni, E. Mosanya, E. Sanchez. RENCO: un ordinateur de réseaux reconfigurables, Actes du XIIe Congrès De Nouvelles Architectures pour les Communications, Paris, 2-4 décembre 1997, pp. 35-39. 1996 • E. Sanchez. Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Circuits, "Towards Evolvable Hardware", Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1996, pp. 1-18. • P. Marchal, P. Nussbaum, C. Piguet, S. Durand, D. Mange, E. Sanchez, A. Stauffer, G. Tempesti. Embryonics: The Birth of Synthetic Life, "Towards Evolvable Hardware", Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1996, pp. 166-196. • A. Pérez, E. Sanchez. The FAST Architecture: A Neural Network with Flexible Adaptable- Size Topology, "Proceedings of MicroNeuro '96", IEEE, 1996, pp. 337-340. • E. Mosanya, M. Goeke, J. Linder, J.-Y. Perrier, F. Rampogna, E. Sanchez. A platform for Co-design and Co-synthesis based on FPGA, "Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping", IEEE, 1996, pp. 11-16. • E. Sanchez. Evolución del material informático, "Innovación y Ciencia", Vol. V, no 1, 1996, pp. 14-20. • A. Pérez-Uribe, E. Sanchez. FPGA Implementation of an Adaptable-Size Neural Network, "Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN '96", Springer, Berlin, 1996, pp. 383-388. • A. Pérez-Uribe, E. Sanchez. Implementation of Neural Constructivism with Programmable Hardware, "International Symposium on Neuro-Fuzzy Systems 1996, AT '96", EPFL, Lausanne, 1996. • E. Sanchez. Internet en Colombie, "Flash informatique" spécial été 96, EPFL, Lausanne, 3 septembre 1996, pp. 3-4. • A. Pérez-Uribe, E. Sanchez. Neural Network Structure Optimization through On-line Hardware Evolution, "World Congress on Neural Networks, WCNN '96", San Diego, September 15-18, 1996, pp.1041-1044. • D. Mange, D. Madon, E. Sanchez, A. Stauffer, G. Tempesti, S. Durand, P. Marchal, C. Piguet. BIOWATCH: une montre autoréparable et autoreproductrice, "6ème Congrès Européen de Chronométrie, CEC", Bienne, 17-18 octobre 1996, pp. 39-42. • E. Mosanya, J. Linder, J.-Y. Perrier, F. Rampogna, E. Sanchez. LOPIOM, "Hardware- Software Cosynthesis for Reconfigurable Systems", Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, February 22, 1996, pp. 7/1-7/5. • P. Marchal, P. Nussbaum, C. Piguet, S. Durand, D. Mange, E. Sanchez, A. Stauffer, G. Tempesti. Genomic Cellular Automata Transposed on Silicon: Experiments in Synthetic Life, "Computation in Cellular and Molecular Biological Systems", R. Cuthbertson, M. Holcombe, R. Paton (Eds), World Scientific, Singapore, 1996, pp. 223-235. • P. Marchal, P. Nussbaum, C. Piguet, S. Durand, D. Mange, E. Sanchez, A. Stauffer, G. Tempesti. Genomic Cellular Automata Transposed on Silicon: Experiments in Synthetic Life, "Computation in Cellular and Molecular Biological Systems", R. Cuthbertson, M. Holcombe, R. Paton (Eds), World Scientific, Singapore, 1996, pp. 223-235. 1995 • C. Iseli, E. Sanchez. A C++ Compiler for FPGA Custom Execution Units Synthesis, "IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines", FCCM '95, Proceedings IEEE, Los Alamitos (Calif.), 1995, pp. 173-179. • D. Mange, S. Durand, E. Sanchez, A. Stauffer, G. Tempesti, P. Marchal, C. Piguet. A New Paradigm for Developing Digital Systems Based on a Multi-Cellular Organization, "IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems", ISCAS '95, Seattle, April 30-May 3, 1995, Vol. 3, pp. 2193-2196. • C. Iseli, E. Sanchez. Synthèse automatique d'unités de traitement parallèles, "Actes des 7es Rencontres Francophones du Parallélisme", RenPar '7, FIP-FPMs, Mons, Belgique, 30 mai-2 juin 1995, p. 243. • S. Fink, E. Sanchez. Development and Prototyping System for an 8-Bit Multitask Micropower Processor, "Proceedings 6th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping", Chapel Hill, NC, USA, June 7-9, 1995, pp. 75-78. • P. Marchal, P. Nussbaum, C. Piguet, S. Durand, D. Mange, E. Sanchez, A. Stauffer, G. Tempesti. Genomic Cellular Automata Transposed in Silicon: Experiments in Synthetic Life, "Information Processing in Cells and Tissues, IPCAT '95, International Workshop", Liverpool, September 6-8, 1995, pp. 1-14. • C. Iseli, E. Sanchez. Spyder: A SURE (SUperscalar and REconfigurable) Processor, "The Journal of Supercomputing", vol. 9, No 3, 1995, pp. 231-252. • C. Miccio, E. Sanchez, M. Tomassini. Parallel Genetic Programming Induction of Binary Decision Diagrams, "EPFL Supercomputing Review", No 7, November 1995, pp. 24-27. • A. Stauffer, D. Mange, E. Sanchez, G. Tempesti, S. Durand, P. Marchal, C. Piguet. Embryonics: Towards New Design Methodologies for Circuits with Biological-like Properties, "International Workshop on Logic and Architecture Synthesis", Grenoble, December 18-19, 1995, pp. 299-306. 1994 • P. Marchal, E. Sanchez. CAFCA (Compact Accelerator For Cellular Automata): the Metamorphosable Machine, "IEEE Workshop on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines", FCCM '94, Proceedings IEEE, Los Alamitos (Calif.), 1994, pp. 66-71. • C. Iseli, E. Sanchez. Augmentation du parallélisme par la reconfigurabilité, Actes des 6èmes Rencontres Francophones du Parallélisme, RenPar '6, Lyon, 6-10 juin, 1994, pp. 3-6. • C. Iseli, E. Sanchez. A Superscalar and Reconfigurable Processor, in "Field-Programmable Logic" 4th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL '94, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No 849, R.W. Hartenstein, M.Z. Servit, Eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994, pp. 168-174. • J.-F. Perotto, C. Lamothe, C. Arm, C. Piguet, E. Dijkstra, S. Fink, E. Sanchez, J.-P. Wattenhofer, M. Cecchini . An 8-bit Multitask Micropower RISC Core, IEEE Journal on Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 29, No 8, August 1994, pp. 986-991. 1993 • C. Iseli, E. Sanchez. Spyder: A reconfigurable VLIW processor using FPGAs. IEEE Workshop on FPGAs for custom computing machines, Napa, pp. 17-24, april 1993. • P. Marchal, C. Piguet, D. Mange, E. Sanchez, A. Stauffer. Synthesis of field-programmable architectures with binary decision diagrams. 11th European conference on circuit theory and design, Davos, pp. 155-160, september 1993. • J.-F. Perotto, C. Lamothe, C. Arm, C. Piguet, S. Fink, E. Sanchez, J.-P. Wattenhofer, M. Cecchini. Multitask micropower CMOS microprocessor. 19th European solid-state circuits conference ESSCIRC'93, Sevilla, pp. 86-89, september 1993. • C. Iseli, E. Sanchez. Beyond Superscalar Using FPGAs, Proceedings 1993 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers & Processors (ICCD '93), Cambridge, Mass., October 3-6, 1993, pp. 486-490. • D. Mange, A. Stauffer, E. Sanchez, P. Marchal, C. Piguet. Designing Programmable Circuits with Biological-like Properties, Annales du Groupe CARNAC, EPFL et UNIL, Lausanne, 1993, No 6, pp. 53-71. • B. Garbinato, E. Mougeotte, N. Ricci, C. Iseli, E. Sanchez. An Algotronix FPGAs Development System on Mac, MacSciTech's SEAM '93, Woburn, Mass., August 2, 1993, Conference CD-ROM. • S. Fink, E. Sanchez. Teaching Computer Architecture with the Mac, MacSciTech's SEAM '93, Woburn, Mass., August 2, 1993, Conference CD-ROM. • L. Schmuziger, E. Sanchez. Simulating Cellular Automata on Mac, MacSciTech's SEAM '93, Woburn, Mass., August 2, 1993, Conference CD-ROM. Books • E. Sanchez, M. Tomassini (eds.). Towards Evolvable Hardware, The Evolutionary Engineering Approach, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No 1062, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1996. Patents • D. Mange, P. Marchal, C. Piguet, E. Sanchez. Circuit électronique organisé en réseau matriciel de cellules, No CH 688 425, 15 septembre 1997. • D. Mange, P. Marchal, C. Piguet, E. Sanchez. Electronic System Organised as an Array of Cells, United States Patent No 5 508 636, April 16, 1996.