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  1. Introduction to the Special Issue on Designing Cyber-Physical Systems—From Concepts to Implementation

    Article • ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Francesca Palumbo, Christian Pilato

  2. ARIANNA: An Automatic Design Flow for Fabric Customization and eFPGA Redaction

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, June 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  3. A Survey of FPGA Optimization Methods for Data Center Energy Efficiency

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, July 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  4. Automatic Creation of High-bandwidth Memory Architectures from Domain-specific Languages: The Case of Computational Fluid Dynamics

    Article • ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  5. Optimizing the Use of Behavioral Locking for High-Level Synthesis

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, February 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  6. Iris

    Article • January 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  7. Designing ML-resilient locking at register-transfer level

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  8. Dynamically-Tunable Dataflow Architectures Based on Markov Queuing Models

    Article • Electronics, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Christian Pilato

  9. HOLL: Program Synthesis for Higher Order Logic Locking

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christian Pilato

  10. CICERO: A Domain-Specific Architecture for Efficient Regular Expression Matching

    Article • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  11. A Survey on Domain-Specific Memory Architectures

    Article • Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems, August 2021, Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems

    Christian Pilato

  12. ASSURE: RTL Locking Against an Untrusted Foundry

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, July 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  13. Automatic Generation of Heterogeneous SoC Architectures With Secure Communications

    Article • IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, June 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  14. CAD-Base

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  15. TaintHLS: High-Level Synthesis for Dynamic Information Flow Tracking

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, May 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  16. Black-Hat High-Level Synthesis: Myth or Reality?

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, April 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  17. Enabling Automated Bug Detection for IP-Based Designs Using High-Level Synthesis

    Article • IEEE Design and Test, October 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  18. Securing Hardware Accelerators: A New Challenge for High-Level Synthesis

    Article • IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, September 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  19. The Case for Polymorphic Registers in Dataflow Computing

    Article • International Journal of Parallel Programming, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christian Pilato

  20. A Survey and Evaluation of FPGA High-Level Synthesis Tools

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, October 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  21. Editorial

    Article • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  22. An FPGA-based infrastructure for fine-grained DVFS analysis in high-performance embedded systems

    Article • June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  23. On the design of scalable and reusable accelerators for big data applications

    Article • May 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  24. Scala-Based Domain-Specific Language for Creating Accelerator-Based SoCs

    Article • May 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  25. System-Level Optimization of Accelerator Local Memory for Heterogeneous Systems-on-Chip

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, January 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  26. Handling large data sets for high-performance embedded applications in heterogeneous systems-on-chip

    Article • January 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  27. Performance Estimation of Task Graphs Based on Path Profiling

    Article • International Journal of Parallel Programming, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christian Pilato

  28. FASTER: Facilitating Analysis and Synthesis Technologies for Effective Reconfiguration

    Article • Microprocessors and Microsystems, June 2015, Elsevier

    Christian Pilato

  29. Preface

    Article • June 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  30. PaRA-Sched: A Reconfiguration-Aware Scheduler for Reconfigurable Architectures

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  31. Adaptive Raytracing Implementation Using Partial Dynamic Reconfiguration

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  32. A SystemC-based framework for the simulation of appliances networks in energy-aware smart spaces

    Article • March 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  33. A Design Methodology for Compositional High-Level Synthesis of Communication-Centric SoCs

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  34. Effective Reconfigurable Design: The FASTER Approach

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christian Pilato

  35. System-level memory optimization for high-level synthesis of component-based SoCs

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  36. SMASH: A heuristic methodology for designing partially reconfigurable MPSoCs

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  37. Bambu: A modular framework for the high level synthesis of memory-intensive applications

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  38. A framework for effective exploitation of partial reconfiguration in dataflow computing

    Article • July 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  39. D-RECS: A complete methodology to implement Self Dynamic Reconfigurable FPGA-based systems

    Article • July 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  40. Dataflow computing with Polymorphic Registers

    Article • July 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  41. A2B: An integrated framework for designing heterogeneous and reconfigurable systems

    Article • June 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  42. Ant Colony Optimization for mapping, scheduling and placing in reconfigurable systems

    Article • June 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  43. Runtime adaptation on dataflow HPC platforms

    Article • June 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  44. A Flexible Interconnection Structure for Reconfigurable FPGA Dataflow Applications

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  45. The FASTER vision for designing dynamically reconfigurable systems

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  46. A Simulation-Based Framework for the Exploration of Mapping Solutions on Heterogeneous MPSoCs

    Article • International Journal of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems, January 2013, IGI Global

    Christian Pilato

  47. Novel Design Methods and a Tool Flow for Unleashing Dynamic Reconfiguration

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  48. An automated framework for the simulation of mapping solutions on heterogeneous MPSoCs

    Article • October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  49. FASTER: Facilitating Analysis and Synthesis Technologies for Effective Reconfiguration

    Article • September 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  50. On the Development of a Runtime Reconfigurable Multicore System-on-Chip

    Article • September 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  51. An open-source design and validation platform for reconfigurable systems

    Article • August 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  52. On the automatic integration of hardware accelerators into FPGA-based embedded systems

    Article • August 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  53. Automatic run-time manager generation for reconfigurable MPSoC architectures

    Article • July 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  54. Smart technologies for effective reconfiguration: The FASTER approach

    Article • July 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  55. TaBit: A framework for task graph to bitstream generation

    Article • July 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  56. Extensions of the hArtes Tool Chain

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christian Pilato

  57. In Car Audio

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christian Pilato

  58. The hArtes Tool Chain

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christian Pilato

  59. A runtime adaptive controller for supporting hardware components with variable latency

    Article • June 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  60. A design methodology to implement memory accesses in high-level synthesis

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  61. Combined architecture and hardening techniques exploration for reliable embedded system design

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  62. HArtes: Hardware-Software Codesign for Heterogeneous Multicore Platforms

    Article • IEEE Micro, September 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  63. A Fast Heuristic for Extending Standard Cell Libraries with Regular Macro Cells

    Article • July 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  64. Ant Colony Heuristic for Mapping and Scheduling Tasks and Communications on Heterogeneous Embedded Systems

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, June 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  65. Mapping and scheduling of parallel C applications with Ant Colony Optimization onto heterogeneous reconfigurable MPSoCs

    Article • January 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  66. Performance modeling of parallel applications on MPSoCs

    Article • October 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  67. Performance estimation for task graphs combining sequential path profiling and control dependence regions

    Article • July 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  68. Evolutionary algorithms for the mapping of pipelined applications onto heterogeneous embedded systems

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  69. HW/SW methodologies for synchronization in FPGA multiprocessors

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  70. Mapping pipelined applications onto heterogeneous embedded systems

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christian Pilato

  71. Improving evolutionary exploration to area-time optimization of FPGA designs

    Article • Journal of Systems Architecture, November 2008, Elsevier

    Christian Pilato

  72. Ant colony optimization for mapping and scheduling in heterogeneous multiprocessor systems

    Article • July 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  73. High-level synthesis with multi-objective genetic algorithm: A comparative encoding analysis

    Article • June 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  74. A Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm for Design Space Exploration in High-Level Synthesis

    Article • January 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  75. Fitness inheritance in evolutionary and multi-objective high-level synthesis

    Article • September 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato

  76. An Evolutionary Approach to Area-Time Optimization of FPGA designs

    Article • July 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Christian Pilato