May 29, 2020: paper accepted at EUSIPCO'20: "Hardware Architecture for the Regular Interpolation Filter of the AV1 Video Coding Standard". Authors: Daiane Freitas, Rafael Silva, Ícaro Siqueira, Cláudio Diniz, Ricardo Reis, Mateus Grellert.

May 26, 2020: our article "Exploring Absolute Differences Arithmetic Operators for Power and Area-Efficient SAD Hardware Architectures" is available at the Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems website. Authors: Brunno Alves Abreu, Mateus Grellert, Guilherme Paim, Leandro Mateus Giacomini Rocha, Cláudio Machado Diniz, Eduardo Eduardo Antônio da Costa, Sergio Bampi.

May 12, 2020: I started translating the subtitles from English to Brazilian Portuguese of the series of videos in YouTube channel made by prof. Marco Winzker from Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He has made his Remote FPGA Lab available free during the coronavirus pandemic.

Apr. 10, 2020. I was elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member.

Nov. 29, 2019: paper accepted at LASCAS'20: "Approximate SATD Hardware Accelerator Using the 8x8 Hadamard Transform" with Matheus Stigger, Victor Lima, Leonardo Soares and Sergio Bampi.

Sep. 11, 2019: two papers accepted at ICECS'19: "Approximate Sum of Absolute Transformed Differences Hardware Accelerator" with Matheus Stigger, Victor Lima, Leonardo Soares and Sergio Bampi and "Approximate Subtractor Operator for Low-Power Video Coding Hardware Accelerators" with Rafael Ferreira, Mateus Leme, Luciano Agostini and Bruno Zatt.

Aug. 26, 2019: I started serving as a member and vice-chair of the Special Committe on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design (Comissão Especial de Concepção de Circuitos e Sistemas Integrados - CECCI) of the Brazilian Computer Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC).

Jul. 16, 2019: paper accepted at WCAS'19 and SForum'19 (both part of Chip in Sampa 2019): "SATD Approximate Hardware Accelerator with Run-time Configurable Hadamard Transform Coefficient Pruning", authors Matheus Stigger, Leonardo Soares, Cláudio Diniz, Eduardo Costa and Sergio Bampi; "Analysis of Hadamard Transform Coefficient Pruning for Approximate SATD Calculation", Authors: Victor Lima, Matheus Stigger, Leonardo Soares and Cláudio Diniz.

May 11, 2019: paper accepted at MWSCAS'19: "HEVC Interpolation Filter Architecture Using Hybrid Encoding Arithmetic Operators." Authors: Rafael Ferreira, Guilherme Paim, Eduardo Costa, Cláudio Diniz, Sergio Bampi.

Apr 26, 2019: the 21st South Microelectronics School (EMicro) and 34th South Symposium on Microelectronics (SIM) has ended with sucess. Please visit the website http://emicro.ucpel.edu.br/ for additional information in Portuguese.

Mar. 1, 2019: CNPq has approved my proposal to a research productivity scholarship (Bolsa de Produtividade em Pesquisa do CNPq - Nível 2). My project is about approximate hardware accelerators for video coding applications.

Feb. 21, 2019: We are accepting paper submission to the South Symposium on Microelectronics (SIM 2019) until February 24, 2019. SIM 2019 will be held from April 22 to 26 at the Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil.

Feb. 1, 2019: The article "Design Methodology to Explore Hybrid Approximate Adders for Energy-Efficient Image and Video Processing Accelerators," is available at the "Early Access" area on IEEEXplore. It will be included in a future issue of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems--I: Regular Papers. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2019.2892588