TODAES Rookie Award -- DAC 2025
Davide Baroffio has been honoured with the TODAES Rookie Author of the Year (RAY) Award during the prestigious DAC 2025 Conference, held on June 25 in San Francisco.
His award-winning paper, titled “Enhanced Compiler Technology for Software-Based Hardware Fault Detection” and co-authored with Federico Reghenzani and Prof. William Fornaciari, was published in the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Embedded Systems.
The research focuses on improving the reliability of electronic systems using a software-only approach. In simple terms, the team developed smarter tools that allows computing platforms to tolerate hardware problems without needing to employ custom components. Their solution builds on a tool called ASPIS, adding new safety features while also reducing the impact on system performance.
The study also tested the tool on FreeRTOS, a widely-used real-time operating system, and ran fault-injection experiments on a popular STM32 microcontroller board. The results showed that the system could handle faults effectively, striking a balance between safety and efficiency.
This work is part of the HEAP Lab’s ongoing research within the National Centre for HPC, Big Data, and Quantum Computing, funded by Italy’s PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan).
Davide Baroffio
Ph.D. Student
Davide Baroffio is a PhD student at Politecnico di Milano researching compilers for safety-critical systems and embedded computing.
Federico Reghenzani
Assistant Professor
Federico Reghenzani received his PhD degree from Politecnico di Milano in January 2021. He is currently a researcher working on real-time systems and embedded computing. His research interests are on probabilistic real-time, mixed-criticality systems, fault tolerance, and embedded Linux systems.
William Fornaciari
Associate Professor
William Fornaciari has published six books and over 200 papers, earning five best paper awards, an IEEE certification, and three international patents on low power design. Since 1997, he has participated in 18 EU-funded projects. His research focuses on multi/many-core architectures, NoC, low power design, and more.