At the Low-Power SoC Lab, we conduct research, development, and educational programs centered on power-aware System-on-Chip (SoC) design. Our interests span low-power electronics—encompassing devices, circuits, and architectures—along with computer-aided design (CAD) methodologies for power-efficient digital VLSI implementation. We also explore ultra-low-voltage circuit operation, low-power processor architectures, edge computing platforms, and dynamic power/thermal management.
Beyond these core areas, we engage in cross-disciplinary investigations into power-dissipation modeling and analysis, power conversion and regulation, integrated-circuit design, system integration and PCB layout, as well as system-level validation and online performance monitoring. Furthermore, we are pushing boundaries in next-generation computing—developing low-power design strategies and HW·SW co-optimization techniques for neuromorphic and quantum computing. Through this holistic approach, we aim to pioneer the fundamental technologies that will shape the future of ultra-efficient, high-performance computing.
[2026.02] Our TT-SEAL paper has been accepted to DAC 2026, and our ONN demo has been accepted to the DATE 2026 University Fair.
[2026.02] Inho Nam has joined our research group as a lab. intern.
[2026.01] LoRA-Edge was nominated as a Best Paper Award Candidate at DATE 2026, and its core techniques have been filed for patent protection.
[2026.01] Our CCMAX paper has been accepted by Micromachines.
[2025.11] Filed a patent for HH-PIM. Q-GEMM and IM2COL Acc. have received KES certification.
[2025.10] Three regular papers (LoRA-Edge, FiCABU, TT-Edge) have been accepted to DATE 2026.
[2025.08] Mundo Jeong joined our group as a Lab. intern.
[2025.08] Our E-BTS paper by AEJ, our TTD paper was accepted by AIMS Mathematics, our fingerprint spoof detection paper by IEEE TII, and three papers on DRAM devices by CAP, JJAP, and JEET, respectively.
[2025.07] Sechan Park joined our group as a lab. intern.
[2025.06] LPSoC has won 3rd place in the prestigious UDDAC 2025 (University Demonstration at DAC).
[2025.06] Our Radar-PIM-Lite paper has been accepted to ISLPED (DC) 2025.
[2025.05] Our ASAP-FE paper has been accepted to ISLPED 2025, and our thyristor random access memory paper by SST.
[2025.04] Jeongmin Jin joined our group as a Lab. intern.
[2025.02] Our HH-PIM paper has been accepted to DAC 2025.
[2025.02] Kyeong-Pil Min, Chae-Bin Jung, and Eun-Su Cho have joined our research group as M.S. students.
[2024.11] Our AESware paper has been accepted for publication in JESTCH.
[2024.10] Our QC paper has been accepted for publication in AIMS Mathematics.
[2024.09] Eun-Su Cho joined our group as a Lab. intern.
[2024.09] 우리 연구실 학부연구생(김병민, 이효건, 민경필, 정채빈)의 2024 한국 대학생 반도체 회로설계 경진대회 기업특별상을 축하합니다.
[2024.09] Our Radar-PIM paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE IoTJ, and our H-PIM paper in Micromachines.
[2024.08] Our SNX paper has been accepted for publication in ETRIJ.
[2024.07] Our Florian paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE TCAS-I.
[2024.05] Our STARC paper has been accepted to ISLPED 2024.
[2024.04] Our Day-Night processor paper has been accepted for publication in JSA.
[2024.03] Hyunseok Kwak, Jongin Choi, and Seunghyun Choi joined our research group as M.S. students, and Kyeong-Pil Min and Chae-Bin Jung joined our group as Lab. interns.
[2024.02] Our HBC paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE TCAS-II, and our AI-based PID autotuner paper in Mathematics.
[2023.09] 제24회 대한민국 반도체설계대전 기업특별상 (이경원, 전상민, 이강주: "RADAR-PIM: 레이더 기반 호흡 탐지를 위한 PIM SoC 프로토타입") 수상을 축하합니다.
[2023.08] Hyunseok Kwak, Jiwon Choi, Seunghyun Choi, Hyokeon Lee, Byung-Min Kim joined our group as Lab. interns.
[2023.05] Our Lightweight RISC-V processor paper has been accepted to ISLPED 2023.
[2022.11] Our ULP RISC-V processor paper has been accepted to DATE 2023.
[2022.11] Our SNN paper has been accepted for publication in Mathematics.
[2022.09] 제23회 대한민국 반도체설계대전 산업통상자원부 장관상 (박진아, 최은진, 이경원: "웨어러블 센서 기반 비정상 감지 특화 초저전력 RISC-V 프로세서") 수상을 축하합니다.
[2022.08] Prof. Lee's office has been moved from room 625 of building 310 to room 638 of the same building.
[2022.07] Kangju Lee joined our group as a Lab. intern.
[2022.07] Min-Gi Jeon, Kyu-Bae Lee, Sangmin Jeon, Jina Park, Eunjin Choi, Kyungwon Lee, and Prof. Lee attended DAC 2022 in San Francisco and exhibited our research at Ubooth.
[2022.06] Our SNN paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE TIM.
[2022.05] Our TEI SRAM paper has been accepted for publication in JSTS.
[2022.04] Our lab. has been moved from room 533 of building 207 to room 717 of the same building.
[2022.03] Jee-Won Kim joined our group as a Lab. intern.
[2022.01] RVX (+TEI) has been featured on the news: news.naver.com/main/read.naver?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=105&oid=014&aid=0004771623
[2021.12] 우리 연구실 이우영, 전상민 학생이 참여한 "RISC-V SoC for Stress Measurement" 프로젝트의 CAU 공학학술제 (학장상), LINK+ 캡스톤디자인 어워드 (우수상) 수상을 축하합니다.
[2021.12] Sangmin Jeon joined our research group as a candidate for M.S. degree.
[2021.12] Kyungwon Lee joined our group as a Lab. intern.
[2021.10] Prof. Lee has been appointed as a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Korea (법무부 법무자문위원회).
[2021.09] 제22회 대한민국 반도체설계대전 산업부장관상 (이우영,박진아,변창준,최은진: "K-means Clustering-specific RISC-V Processor"), 기업특별상 (이재형,이승영,장형욱: "Developing a Multicore Platform Utilizing Open RISC-V Cores") 수상을 축하합니다.
[2021.08] a TC paper was accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
[2021.08] a RISC-V processor paper was accepted to IEEE ISOCC conf.
[2021.08] "SNN 기반 인공지능반도체: 이것이 답일까?" 주간기술동향 2010호
[2021.06] Jina Park and Eunjin Choi joined our group as a Lab. intern.
[2021.05] a HBC paper was accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM).
[2021.02] Wooyoung Lee joined our group as a PE student and Lab. intern.
[2021.01] Kyu-Bae Lee and Min-Gi Jeon joined our research group as M.S. students.
[2020.10] a RVX application paper was presented at IEEE ISOCC conf.
[2020.10] a RVX paper was accepted for publication in IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
[2020.09] a HBC paper was published for publication in IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM).
[2020.08] Kyu-Bae Lee and Min-Gi Jeon joined our research group as candidates for graduate students.
[2020.05] The RISC-V eXpress (RVX) was first used in a digital system design class.
[2020.03] Jae-hyuong Lee, Seung-Yeong Lee, and Mithona Phou joined our research group for MS course.
[2020.02] a DDFS paper was published for publication in IEEE Access.
[2019.09] a LW-DEM paper was published for publication in IEEE Access.
[2019.09] a TEI-ULP paper was published in IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD).
[2019.07] TEI-inspired Ultra-low Power SoC Platform was presented at ACM/IEEE ISLPED conf.
[2019.06] a MMNoC paper was published for publication in IEEE Access.
[2019.04] a Diagnosable NoC paper was published in IEEE Design & Test.
[2019.03] Prof. Lee joined the School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University as an assistant professor.