Dottorato in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi , 19o ciclo (2004-2006)
Dottorato concluso nel 2007
Tesi:
Electronic System Design Techniques for safety Critical Applications.
Tutori:
Matteo Sonza ReordaProfilo
Interessi di ricerca
Settore scientifico discliplinare
(Area 0009 - Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Didattica
Collegi di Dottorato
- INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2023/2024 (40. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2022/2023 (39. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2020/2021 (37. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2019/2020 (36. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2018/2019 (35. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2017/2018 (34. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2016/2017 (33. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2015/2016 (32. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO
Collegi dei Corsi di Studio
Progetti di didattica e formazione finanziati da enti esterni
Progetti finanziati da bandi competitivi
- Reinforcing Skills in Chips Design for Europe, (2024-2028) - Componente gruppo di Ricerca
Cooperazione universitaria
Progetti finanziati da contratti commerciali
- Corso Python Base e Corso Python Advanced, (2022-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Contratti commerciali - Phyton programming language training, (2020-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Contratti commerciali
Altre attività e progetti di didattica
The teaching activity of Luca Sterpone has been focused on three fundamental courses for the Bachelor degree (Laurea) in Computer Engineering: Computer Science, Computer Architecture and Operating Systems.
Luca Sterpone actively contributes to the innovation of the courses contents in particular promoting the adoption of state-of-the-art scripting language for the courses of Operating Systems and contributing to the adoption of modern MIPS architecture for the course of Computer Architecture. Besides, since the academic year 2014/2015, Luca Sterpone is formal responsible of the PhD course of Reconfigurable Computing whose content has been personally created and managed. The course is constantly updated with the research advancements in the area of reconfigurable computing and it has an average of 15 PhD students per academic year.
• Formal responsibility of Bachelor’s (Laurea) and Master of Science’s (Laurea Magistrale) degree courses in Italian and/or foreign universities
- Computer Science, Politecnico di Torino, Italian language, 9 years, (A.A. 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019)
- Operating Systems, Politecnico di Torino, Italian language, 7 years (A.A. 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021)
- Computer Architecture, Politecnico di Torino, Italian language, 3 years (A.A. 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021)
• Formal responsibility of PhD courses in Italian and/or foreign universities.
- Reconfigurable Computing, English, 7 years (A.A. 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021)
Ricerca
Gruppi di ricerca
Progetti di ricerca
Progetti finanziati da bandi competitivi
- PUMA - develoPpement of a rad-hard fpga with Ultra deep subMicron technology for spAce applications , (2025-2027) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca UE - HE - Global Challenges - Digital, Industry and Space - REASE: REsilient computing Architecture in the Space quantum communication Era , (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Nazionale - PRIN - NODES - Spoke 1 - Nord Ovest Digitale E Sostenibile - INDUSTRY 4.0 FOR SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY AND AEROSPACE (Spoke 1) , (2022-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico di Struttura
PNRR – Missione 4 - VEGAS - COMPET-01-2015 , (2016-2018) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca UE - H2020 - Industrial Leadership – LEIT - SPACE
Progetti finanziati da contratti commerciali
- RAMSES CubeSat-1 Development , (2025-2026) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Design Mitigation Techniques Evaluation of Advanced COTS FPGAS for ESA Missions , (2024-2026) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Digital Model of a High Integrity Avionic Backbone , (periodo sconosciuto) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Contratto di ricerca tra Politecnico di Torino (DAUIN) e ARGOTEC S.R.L. Società Unipersonale per lo svolgimento del programma di ricerca dal titolo: “EuFRATE European FPGA Radiation-hardened Architecture for TElecommunications”. , (periodo sconosciuto) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - FPL 2024 , (2024-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Sponsorizzazioni commerciale - FPL 2024 , (2024-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Sponsorizzazioni commerciale - FPL 2024 , (2024-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Sponsorizzazioni commerciale - FPL 2024 , (2024-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Sponsorizzazioni commerciale - High Integrity Avionic Backbone , (2024-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - DFVC integr. x AC motor on uC Infineon , (2024-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Studio e investigazione dell'ambiente radioattivo relativo alla missione RAMSES, definizione di requisiti di test di dispositivi, supporto al tailoring ECSS , (2024-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - TERRAC: Towards Exascale Reconfigurable and Rad-hard Accelerated Computing in Space , (2023-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Attività di supporto e consulenza in relazione alle attività di radiation analysis and mitigation dell’FPGA dell’F-DCU , (2023-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Consulenza commerciale - DEV.of Electronic Power Conv.for , (2023-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Sperimentazioni, revisioni e test sul processore tollerante ai guasti Rempro , (2022-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Python Basics , (2021-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Attività di Integrazione IP cores in FPGA , (2020-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Attività di supporto per test di radiazioni (ioni pesanti)” , (2020-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Phyton programming language training , (2018-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Developement of New Place and Route Tools to improve Set Mitigation in ACTEL ProASIC FPGA , (2018-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Disrupting vehicle controls and fleet management: block-chain, parallel computing and quantum computing , (2018-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Development of software testing framework with a Virtual Hardware prototyping tool , (2018-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Radiation test on SmartFusion2 FPGA , (2018-2018) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - SEE analysis and mitigation on SRAM and Flash-based FPGAs , (2017-2018) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Design including definition of inputs, SW testing setup, Hardware Integration and Final release of the FW and documents , (2017-2017) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - FPGA base test and Complex Driver , (2016-2016) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale - Development of new place and route tools to improve SET mitigation in Actel ProASIC FPGAs , (2015-2016) - Responsabile Scientifico
Ricerca Commerciale
Dottorandi
- Arash Amini Bardpareh. Corso in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (ciclo 40, 2025-in corso)
- Federico Buccellato. Corso in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (ciclo 40, 2024-in corso)
Computer architectures and Computer aided design Data science, Computer vision and AI Parallel and distributed systems, Quantum computing Software engineering and Mobile computing Computer architectures and Computer aided design Data science, Computer vision and AI Parallel and distributed systems, Quantum computing Software engineering and Mobile computing - Aobo Cui. Corso in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (ciclo 40, 2025-in corso)
- Giorgio Cora. Corso in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (ciclo 39, 2023-in corso)
Computer architectures and Computer aided design Computer architectures and Computer aided design - Rosario Milazzo. Corso in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (ciclo 38, 2023-in corso)
Argomento della ricerca: Robust, accurate and efficient deep neural networks for satellite and mobility applications
Data science, Computer vision and AI Data science, Computer vision and AI Data science, Computer vision and AI - Andrea Portaluri. Corso in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (ciclo 37, 2021-in corso)
Tesi: AI-oriented Design Methods for Intelligent Aerospace Computing Systems - Eleonora Vacca. Corso in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (ciclo 37, 2021-2025)
Tesi: Reconfigurable Accelerators Design Methods for High Reliability Space Applications
Computer architectures and Computer aided design - Corrado De Sio. Corso in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (ciclo 35, 2019-2023)
Tesi: Toward Fault-Tolerant Applications on Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip
Controls and system engineering Cybersecurity Controls and system engineering Cybersecurity
Altre attività e progetti di ricerca
Luca Sterpone coordinates the “Aerospace and Reconfigurable Computing Team” within the Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica of Politecnico di Torino. The group is federated within the CAD group leaded by Prof. Matteo Sonza Reorda. All the people of the “Aerospace and Reconfigurabble Computing Team” are fully managed by Luca Sterpone in terms of financial support (contracts, missions and other expenses), research support (computers, boards and any type of equipment). The group includes the following member:
- Boyang Du, Assistant Professor – RTD-A
- Sarah Azimi, Post-Doc
- Ludovica Bozzoli, PhD Student, Cycle 33
- Corrado De Sio, PhD Student, Cycle 35
Luca Sterpone coordinates different collaborations at the national and international level:
- Coordination of the research activity with the Computing System for Space (COSYSPACE) leaded by Monica Alderighi of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF).
- Principal Investigator of the Politecnico di Torino group within the VEGAS H2020 project.
- Coordination of the research activity with the group Radiation Effects and Circuit Designs (RADUS) ofl Prof. Miguel Angel Aguirre Echànove from School of Engineering of Sevilla.
- Management with the Xilinx INC company of the “Single Event Effects European Consortium” supported by Xilinx INC,
- General Motor (GM). In the framework of the research collaboration, Luca Sterpone coordinates the research activity with the Electronics, SW Integration and Testing and Control GM control group.
- European Space Agency (ESA). In the framework of the research collaboration, Luca Sterpone coordinates the research activity with the ASIC/FPGA Engineer division TEC-EDM of ESA.
- Thales Alenia Space (TAS). In the framework of the research collaboration, Luca Sterpone coordinates the research activity related to the radiation test execution, analysis tools and mitigation for ASIC and FPGA devices for space satellites.
Luca Sterpone has been the academic tutor of the Reconfigurable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (ReCoUAV) project for the Alta Scuola Politecnica (ASP) in the period 2012 – 2014 managing eight students divided in two teams with the purpose of investigating the potential future applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) based on a reconfigurable flight computer for civil purpose [PR1].
• Scientific responsibility (Principal investigator) of Italian and International research projects, awarded through a peer-review process
- Luca Sterpone has been the scientific responsible (Principal Investigator) of the Politecnico di Torino research unit in the framework of the European Innovation Triangle Initiative (ITI) entitled “On-line Testing and Healing Permanent Radiation Effects in Reconfigurable Systems” – code A00016022 with the following other research units:
European Space Agency
University of Bielefeld
Università di Pisa
Politecnico di Torino
- Luca Sterpone is the scientific responsible of the Politecnico di Torino research unit in the framework of the H2020 VEGAS - Validation of European High Capacity rad-hard FPGA and software tools - http://vegas.nanoxplore.com/
Pubblicazioni
Coautori PoliTO
Pubblicazioni degli ultimi anni
Pubblicazioni per tipo
Pubblicazioni durante il dottorato Vedi tutte le pubblicazioni su Porto@Iris
- SONZA REORDA, Matteo; Sterpone, Luca; Violante, Massimo; LIMA KASTENSMIDT, F; Carro, L. (2007)
Evaluating different solutions to design fault tolerant systems with SRAM-based FPGAs. In: JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC TESTING, vol. 23, pp. 47-54. ISSN 0923-8174
Contributo su Rivista - Sterpone, Luca; Violante, Massimo; HARBOE SORENSEN, R; Merodio, D; Sturesson, F; ... (2007)
Experimental Validation of a Tool for Predicting the Effects of Soft Errors in SRAM-based FPGAs. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, vol. 6, pp. 2576-2583. ISSN 0018-9499
Contributo su Rivista - Sterpone, Luca; Violante, Massimo (2007)
A New Partial Reconfiguration-based Fault-Injection System to Evaluate SEU Effects in SRAM-based FPGAs. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, pp. 965-970. ISSN 0018-9499
Contributo su Rivista - Violante, Massimo; SONZA REORDA, Matteo; Sterpone, Luca; Manuzzato, A.; Gerardin, S.; ... (2007)
A new hardware/software platform for the soft-error sensitivity evaluation of FPGA devices. In: 8th IEEE Latin American Test Workshop, Cuzco, Peru, pp. 1-6
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Abate, F.; Sterpone, Luca; Violante, Massimo (2007)
A new mitigation approach for soft errors in embedded processors. In: Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems, 2007. RADECS 2007. 9th European Conference on. ISBN: 9781424417049
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Sterpone, Luca; Violante, Massimo (2007)
A new decompression system for the configuration process of SRAM-based FPGAs. In: ACM 17th Great Lake Symposium on VLSI, Stresa., March 11-13, 2007
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Sterpone, Luca; Violante, Massimo (2007)
A new hardware architecture for performing the gridding of DNA microarray images. In: ACM 17th Great Lake Symposium on VLSI, Stresa., March 11-13, 2007.
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Manuzzato, A; Rech, P; Gerardin, S; Paccagnella, A; Sterpone, Luca; Violante, Massimo (2007)
Sensitivity evaluation of TMR-hardened circuits to multiple SEUs induced by alpha particles in commercial SRAM-based FPGAs. In: International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, pp. 79-86
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - S., Pontarelli; Sterpone, Luca; G. C., Cardarilli; M., Re; SONZA REORDA, Matteo; A., ... (2007)
Optimization of Self Checking FIR filters by means of Fault Injection Analysis. In: DFT, Roma, pp. 96-104
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Sterpone, Luca; Violante, Massimo (2007)
A new FPGA-based edge detection system for the gridding of DNA microarray images. In: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Warsaw., May 1-3, 2007
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Sterpone, Luca; Violante, Massimo (2007)
An Analysis of SEU Effects in Embedded Operating Systems for Real-Time Applications. In: International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, pp. 3345-3349. ISBN: 9781424407552
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Sterpone, Luca; Violante, Massimo (2007)
Analytical analysis of the MCUs sensitiveness of TMR architectures in SRAM-based FPGAs. In: Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems, 2007. RADECS 2007. 9th European Conference on. ISBN: 9781424417049
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Sterpone, Luca; Violante, Massimo (2007)
Static and Dynamic Analysis of SEU effects in SRAM-based FPGAs. In: ETS2007: IEEE European Test Symposium, Freiburg, Germany, 2007, Freiburg, Germany, May 20-24. 2007.
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Alderighi, M.; Casini, F.; D'Angelo, S.; Mancini, M.; Pastore, S.; Sterpone, Luca; ... (2007)
Soft errors in SRAM-FPGAs: A comparison of two complementary approaches. In: Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems, 2007. RADECS 2007. 9th European Conference on. ISBN: 9781424417049
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Manuzzato, A.; Gerardin, S.; Paccagnella, A.; Sterpone, Luca; Violante, Massimo (2007)
Effectiveness of TMR-based techniques to mitigate alpha-induced SEU accumulation in commercial SRAM-based FPGAs. In: Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems, 2007. RADECS 2007. 9th European Conference on. ISBN: 9781424417049
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Sterpone, Luca; P., REYES MORENO; J. A., Maestro; O., Ruano; P., Reviriego (2007)
An experimental analysis of SEU sensitiveness of recursive-oriented hardening techniques. In: DDECS2007: IEEE Design & Diagnostic of Electronic Circuits & Systems, 2007, Krakow, Poland, April 11,13. 2007
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Violante, Massimo; Sterpone, Luca; Manuzzato, A; Gerardin, S; Rech, P; Bagatin, M; ... (2007)
A new hardware/software platform and a new 1/E neutron source for soft error studies: testing FPGAs at the ISIS facility. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, pp. 1184-1189. ISSN 0018-9499
Contributo su Rivista - S., Pontarelli; Sterpone, Luca; G. C., Cardarilli; M., Re; SONZA REORDA, Matteo; A., ... (2007)
Self Checking Circuit Optimization by means of Fault Injection Analysis: A Case Study on Reed Solomon Decoders. In: IOLTS2007: IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Hersonissos, Greece, July 2007, pp. 194-196
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Bernardi, Paolo; Sterpone, Luca; Violante, Massimo; M., PORTELA GARCIA (2006)
HYBRID FAULT DETECTION TECHNIQUE A CASE STUDY ON VIRTEX-II PRO'S POWERPC. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, vol. 53, pp. 3550-3557. ISSN 0018-9499
Contributo su Rivista - SONZA REORDA, Matteo; Sterpone, Luca; Violante, Massimo; M., PORTELA GARCIA; C., LOPEZ ... (2006)
Fault Injection-based Reliability Evaluation of SoPCs. In: IEEE European Test Symposium, pp. 75-82
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Società e imprese
Brevetti e altre proprietà intellettuali
- Pyxel – A Python Toolkit For Automating Research, Development, And Analysis On Reconfigurable Hardware. Software nazionale
Inventori: Sarah Azimi Corrado De Sio Luca Sterpone - Reliability assessment in FPGAs based on Critical Bits identification. Brevetto internazionale
Inventori: Luca Sterpone - SOFTWARE FOR EXPLOITING SURVEILLANCE VIDEOS FOR REAL-TIME DETECTION OF VIOLENCE THROUGH "SIGNAL FOR HELP". Software nazionale
Inventori: Sarah Azimi Francesco Carlucci Corrado De Sio Luca Sterpone