Programme


10th Italian Workshop on Embedded Systems
(IWES 2025)
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Thu 09:00
Registration
-> 09:30
Room M1.3
Thu 09:30
Welcome
Paolo Burgio, Alessandro Capotondi
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Paolo Pavan
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Delegate for research
Sergio Polidoro
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Head of department
-> 09:45
Room M1.3
Keynote
Session chair
Paolo Burgio
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Thu 09:45
Functional Safety challenges and solutions for Automotive embedded processing units: The Software Test Libraries
Marco Demi
STL Product Manager
Resiltech s.r.l.
-> 10:30
-> 10:30
Room M1.3
Company presentations
Session chair
Alessandro Capotondi
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Thu 10:30
Bylogix Company Presentation
Pasquale Marasco
Bylogix s.r.l
-> 10:40
Thu 10:40
Security, Safety, and Time-Predictability for Next-Gen Software-Defined Systems
Giorgiomaria Cicero
Accelerat s.r.l.
-> 10:50
Thu 10:50
Minerva Systems - Embedding Software at Full Throttle
Marco Solieri, Andrea Bastoni
Minerva Systems s.r.l.
-> 11:00
Thu 11:00
Green Hills Software Company Presentation
Gerd Maidorn
Green Hills Software
-> 11:10
Thu 11:10
Cooperation opportunities with the Digital Power team of the Huawei Pisa RC
Paolo Gai
Huawei Pisa RC
-> 11:20
-> 11:20
Thu 11:20
Coffee break
-> 11:50
Room M1.3
New research group presentations
Session chair
Paolo Burgio
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Thu 11:50
AI for Industry at FBK
Alessandro Cimatti, Fabio Antonelli, Luisa Bentivogli, Marco Cristoforetti, Andrea Micheli, Fabio Poiesi, Fabio Remondino, Angelo Susi, Stefano Tonetta
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Center for Digital Industry, Italy
-> 12:00
Thu 12:00
EDA Group Politecnico di Torino
Mohamed Amine Hamdi, Daniele Jahier Pagliari, Sara Vinco, Massimo Poncino, Alessio Burrello
Polytechnic of Turin
-> 12:10
Thu 12:10
A team trying to apply EDA methodologies to agriculture
Ashraf Sharifi, Mehran Tarif Hokmabadi, Elia Brentarolli, Sara Migliorini, Daniele Meli, Davide Quaglia, Tiziano Villa
University of Verona
-> 12:20
Thu 12:20
Service-Oriented Communication in Safety-Critical Automotive Systems: Integrating SOME/IP into AUTOSAR for Steer-by-Wire Applications
Francesco Cerruto, Luca Leonardi, Gaetano Patti, Lucia Lo Bello
University of Catania
Francesco Arcidiacono
Shaeffler Group, Germany
[Technical presentation]
-> 12:40
-> 12:40
Room M1.3
Selected CINI PhD students presentations
Session chairs
Francesco Moretti, Federico Gavioli
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Thu 12:40
A framework for virtualization of mixed-criticality microcontroller-based systems
Leonardo Fazzini
University of L'Aquila
-> 12:45
Thu 12:45
Deep Learning and High-Performance Computing for Phonocardiogram Signal Processing and Real-Time Neuronavigation
Domenico Ragusa
University of Pavia
-> 12:50
Thu 12:50
Real-time support for Ethernet 10BASE-T1S-based communications in zonal architectures for software-defined cars
Francesco Cerruto
University of Catania
-> 12:55
Thu 12:55
Novel LoRaWAN extensions for Industrial IoT: from adaptive data rate to QoS-aware downlinks
Mattia Pirri
University of Catania
-> 13:00
Thu 13:00
Strategic Cybersecurity: Optimizing Defenses with Stackelberg Security Games
Manuel Drago
University of Florence
-> 13:05
Thu 13:05
Enhancing scalability and real-time capabilities of a prioritized version of MQTT
Alessio Pirri
University of Catania
-> 13:10
-> 13:10
Thu 13:10
Lunch
-> 14:20
Parallel sessions
Room M1.3
Automotive and robotics 1
Session chair
Paolo Burgio
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Thu 14:20
End-to-end reliability assessment in automotive AI-based systems
Shailesh Sudhakara Hegde, Dinesh Cyril Selvaraj, Josie Esteban Rodriguez Condia, Nicola Amati, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Francesco Paolo Deflorio, Matteo Sonza Reorda
Polytechnic of Turin
-> 14:40
Thu 14:40
Embedded system in automotive simulators: DistriMuSe use case
Vanessa Orani, Alberto Carlevaro, Jacopo Motta
Aitek s.p.a.
Federica Viero, Alessandro Monteleone
Re:Lab
Roberta Presta, Chiara Tancredi
University of Naples "Suor Orsola Benincasa"
-> 15:00
Thu 15:00
TRACE (EU Project): Integration and Harmonization of Logistics Operations and The Italian Demonstrator With Autonomous Cargobikes
Alessio Masola, Francesco Castorini, Chinmay Statish Shrivastav, Paolo Burgio
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
-> 15:20
Thu 15:20
Feelbert: a feedback linearization-based embedded real-time quadrupedal locomotion framework
Aristide Emanuele Casucci, Federico Nesti, Mauro Marinoni, Giorgio C. Buttazzo
Scuola Superione Sant’Anna, Pisa
-> 15:40
-> 15:40
Room M0.2
Students' orientation session 1
Session chair
Alessandro Capotondi
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Thu 14:20
Bylogix
-> 14:50
Thu 14:50
Accelerat
-> 15:20
Thu 15:20
Green Hills Software
-> 15:50
-> 15:50
-> 15:50
Thu 15:50
Coffee break
-> 16:20
Parallel sessions
Room M1.3
Automotive and robotics 2
Session chair
Alessio Masola
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Thu 16:20
SimPRIVE: a Simulation framework for Physical Robot Interaction with Virtual Environments
Federico Nesti, Gianluca D'Amico, Mauro Marinoni, Giorgio C. Buttazzo
Scuola Superione Sant’Anna, Pisa
-> 16:40
Thu 16:40
Beyond Safety Cages: Ensuring Cognitive Safety when Operating Cobots
Tommaso Zoppi
University of Florence
-> 17:00
Thu 17:00
Temporal Isolation and Adaptive Scheduling for Containerized Edge Workloads
Daniel Casini, Luca Abeni, Mauro Marinoni, Alessandro Biondi
Scuola Superione Sant’Anna, Pisa
-> 17:20
-> 17:20
Room M0.2
Students' orientation session 2
Session chair
Alessandro Capotondi
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Thu 16:20
Resiltech
-> 16:50
Thu 16:50
Minerva Systems
-> 17:20
-> 17:20
-> 17:20
Room M1.3
Business meetings
CINI ESSM Lab. meeting
Session chair
Nicola Mazzocca
University of Naples "Federico II"
Thu 17:20
Open discussions
-> 17:50
-> 17:50
IWES business meeting
Session chair
Toni Mancini
Sapienza University of Rome
Thu 17:50
Open discussions
-> 18:20
-> 18:20
-> 18:20
Thu 18:20
End of day
-> 18:20
Thu 20:30
Social dinner
-> 22:30
Friday, September 19, 2025
Fri 09:00
Registration
-> 09:30
Room M1.3
Keynote
Session chair
Alessandro Capotondi
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Fri 09:30
End-to-end of open source platforms in the era of domain specialization
Luca Benini
University of Bologna
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
-> 10:15
-> 10:15
Room M1.3
Embedded systems design 1
Session chair
Benedetta Mazzoni
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Fri 10:45
Enabling the Proxy Computing Paradigm on DPU-based FPGA Acceleration
Gianluca Brilli, Alessandro Capotondi, Paolo Burgio, Andrea Marongiu
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
-> 11:05
Fri 11:05
Enabling Adaptive and Efficient Edge AI with Hardware-Software Co-Design on PULP
Luca Bompani, Davide Nadalini, Alberto Dequino, Giuseppe Tagliavini, Francesco Conti
University of Bologna
-> 11:25
Fri 11:25
Multi-Context Execution on a RISC-V Processor for Mixed-Criticality Systems
Leonardo Fazzini, Giacomo Valente, Luigi Pomante, Tania Di Mascio
University of L'Aquila
Fabio Federici, Matthew P. Corbett
Collins Aerospace
-> 11:45
-> 11:45
Fri 11:45
Coffee break
-> 12:15
Room M1.3
Embedded systems design 2
Session chair
Benedetta Mazzoni
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Fri 12:15
Fine-Grained QoS Control via Tightly-Coupled Bandwidth Monitoring and Regulation
Giacomo Valente, Tania Di Mascio
University of L'Aquila
Gianluca Brilli, Alessandro Capotondi, Paolo Burgio, Paolo Valente, Andrea Marongiu
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
-> 12:35
Fri 12:35
Architect from Minerva Systems: a Practical Approach to regulating Memory Interference on MPSoC
Andrea Bastoni, Marco Solieri
Minerva Systems s.r.l.
Alexander Zuepke
Technical University of Munich, Germany
-> 12:55
Fri 12:55
Performance Counter-Based Memory Bandwidth Regulation for Heterogeneous Multi-Core On-Chip Platforms
Andrea Pagliaro, Mattia Di Giovanni, Luigi Pomante, Giacomo Valente
University of L'Aquila
-> 13:15
-> 13:15
Fri 13:15
Lunch
-> 14:00
Parallel sessions
Room M1.3
Embedded systems real-time OS and virtualization
Session chairs
Filippo Muzzini, Gianluca Brilli
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Fri 14:00
Toward Efficient Software Solutions for Interrupt Handling in Embedded Virtualized Environments
Carmelo Loiacono
Green Hills Software
-> 14:20
Fri 14:20
From Migration to Orchestration, advancing in the Compute Continuum
Edoardo Tinto, Tullio Vardanega
University of Padua
-> 14:40
-> 14:40
Room M1.3
Safety, security and verification 1
Session chairs
Filippo Muzzini, Gianluca Brilli
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Fri 14:40
Teaching Reliability, Safety & Security as One: an Open-Source, Project-Centric Course Experience
Roberto Bagnara, Michele Martelli
University of Parma
-> 15:00
-> 15:00
-> 15:00
Room M0.2
Embedded systems applications and edge AI 1
Session chairs
Emanuele Zarfati, Alessio Masola
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Fri 14:00
EMG Acquisition and Processing for Decoding Hand Movements on Embedded Systems: State-of-the-Art and Challenges
Simone Benatti
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Pierangelo Maria Rapa, Mattia Orlandi
University of Bologna
Luca Benini
University of Bologna
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
-> 14:20
Fri 14:20
MATCH: Model-Aware TVM-based Compilation for Heterogeneous Edge Devices
Mohamed Amine Hamdi, Daniele Jahier Pagliari, Sara Vinco, Massimo Poncino, Alessio Burrello
Polytechnic of Turin
-> 14:40
Fri 14:40
RL on-device: toward embedded reinforcement learning training on low-end MCUs
Gaetano Pio Pispisa, Alessandro Giuffrè, Giovanni Lombardo, Fabrizio De Vita, Dario Bruneo, Giovanni Merlino, Francesco Longo
University of Messina
Davide Giacalone
STMicroelectronics
-> 15:00
-> 15:00
-> 15:00
Fri 15:00
Short break
-> 15:10
Parallel sessions
Room M1.3
Safety, security and verification 2
Session chairs
Filippo Muzzini, Gianluca Brilli
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Fri 15:10
Create and use a representative dataset for Advanced Persistent Threats detection
Tommaso Puccetti, Davide Zhang, Andrea Ceccarelli
University of Florence
Simona De Vivo, Pietro Liguori, Roberto Natella
University of Naples "Federico II"
-> 15:30
Fri 15:30
Simulation-Based Design of Industry-Size Control Systems With Formal Quality Guarantees
Marco Esposito, Toni Mancini, Leonardo Picchiami, Enrico Tronci
Sapienza University of Rome
Alberto Leva
Polytechnic of Milan
-> 15:50
Fri 15:50
libreRT: A FOSS Stack for Real Time Parallel Embedded Systems
Federico Terraneo, Niccolò Nicolosi, Daniele Cattaneo, Giovanni Agosta
Polytechnic of Milan
Lorenzo Carpentieri, Biagio Cosenza
University of Salerno
-> 16:10
-> 16:10
Room M0.2
Embedded systems applications and edge AI 2
Session chairs
Emanuele Zarfati, Alessio Masola
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Fri 15:10
SynDRA and SynDRA-BBox: Synthetic Datasets for Railway Applications
Gianluca D'Amico, Federico Nesti, Giulio Rossolini, Mauro Marinoni, Salvatore Sabina, Giorgio C. Buttazzo
Scuola Superione Sant’Anna, Pisa
-> 15:30
Fri 15:30
Exploring GPU Partitioning Strategies for Video Stream Consolidation in Smart City Fog Nodes
Elena Mariolina Galdi, Paolo Burgio, Andrea Marongiu
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Davide Bertozzi
University of Manchester, UK
-> 15:50
-> 15:50
-> 16:10
Room M1.3
Fri 16:10
Closing remarks
Paolo Burgio, Alessandro Capotondi
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
-> 16:20
Fri 16:20
End of workshop
-> 16:20