Pascal Giard

Professeur

Department

Département de génie électrique

Degrees

B.Ing., M.Ing. (ÉTS), Ph.D. (McGill)

Office

A-2575

pascal.giard@etsmtl.ca

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Overview

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Research unit

Visit the website :LACIME – Communications and Microelectronic Integration Laboratory

Research Area

Sensors, Networks and Connectivity

Expertise

Blockchain
Conception et réalisation de systèmes numériques
Codage de canal
Détection aveugle
Logiciel libre
Modélisation et simulation de communications numériques
Modélisation et simulation de systèmes numériques
Prototypage rapide
Radio logicielle
Systèmes embarqués
Objets connectés

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Courses and supervision

Course

4 credits Été 2026

4 credits Automne 2026

Supervision

En codirection avec : Ghyslain Gagnon
Early-Detection Schemes Based on Sequential Probability Tests for Low-Latency Communications, par Diego Orlando Barragan Guerrero
Été 2025
En codirection avec : Georges Kaddoum
Design and Implementation of Chaos-Based Random Number Generators for IoT Platforms, par Ngoc Nguyen Thi Thu
Hiver 2022
Energy-Proportional Polar Decoders, par Ilshat Sagitov
Automne 2024
En codirection avec : Kaiwen Zhang
FPGA-Based Solutions for Secure Cryptocurrency Wallets and Accelerated Smart Contract Execution, par Joel Poncha Lemayian
Automne 2025
En codirection avec : Lokman Sboui
Relative Localization in a Radio-Acoustical Virtual Environment, par Nour Zidi
Automne 2026

En codirection avec : Kaiwen Zhang
Conception et réalisation d’un portefeuille hors ligne polyvalent pour cryptomonnaies, par William Magnan
Automne 2026
Forecasting the Time Series of eCPMs in Online Advertising, par Huu My Nguyen
Été 2021
Design and Implementation of a Enhanced Successive Cancellation Flip Decoder and Rapid SCF Execution-Time Estimation, par Tannaz Kalatian
Automne 2021
Learning Framework for eCPM Prediction in Online Advertisement, par Marwa Tageldien Thabet Abdallah
Hiver 2022
En codirection avec : Georges Kaddoum
Towards a New Generation of loT Based on Network Coding for the Industry 4.0, par Amir Abbas Modir
Automne 2021
En codirection avec : Rachel Bouserhal
Analyse de la valeur ajoutée d'un système de communication dans un environnement radio acoustique virtuelle (RAVE), par Gabriel Ouaknine-Beaulieu
Été 2025
En codirection avec : Claude Thibeault
Méthodologies in situ d’identification de corruptions silencieuses de données dans un processeur RISC-V à l’aide de circuits FPGA, par Olivier Juteau-Desjardins
Automne 2026
En codirection avec : Kaiwen Zhang
Intégration système d’un accélérateur matériel de l’ethereum virtual machine, par Anis Chabi
Automne 2026

Vers une implémentation matérielle de la preuve de travail ciblant les appareils IdO, par Abderraouf Mefoued
Été 2020
Conception d'un pilote MacOS pour l'adaptateur USB pour WIIU et PS3 de Guitar Hero Live, par Jose Enrique Salais Sigala
Hiver 2022

En codirection avec : Pedro Roios
Development of an AI-based video processing pipeline for real-time plastic waste detection, classification, and tracking, par Marin Muhieddine
Automne 2023

Contribution à l'intégration d'une nouvelle génération de carte à une solution de gestion de murs vidéo, par Benjamin Fornes
Hiver 2024

Publications

Nour Zidi, Lokman Sboui, Pascal Giard, Jérémie Voix. 2024 « Pioneering relative localization for enhanced communication in a radio-acoustical virtual environment (RAVE) ». Affiche présentée lors de la conférence : IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) (Kingston, ON, Canada, Aug. 06-09, 2024)
C. Pillet, P. Giard. 2022 « Automorphism-based design of polar-like codes and its decoding solution ». Affiche présentée lors de la conférence : ISTC Workshop (Montreal, QC, Canada, Aug. 29-30, 2022)
I. Sagitov, C. Pillet, P. Giard. 2022 « Successive-cancellation flip decoding of polar codes under fixed channel-production rate ». Affiche présentée lors de la conférence : ISTC Workshop (Montreal, QC, Canada, Aug. 29-30 2022)

Joel Poncha Lemayian, Ghyslain Gagnon, Kaiwen Zhang, Pascal Giard. 2026 « EVMx: An FPGA-based accelerator for smart contract processing ». IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems vol. 34 , nº 2. p. 554-567
Joel Poncha Lemayian, Ghyslain Gagnon, Kaiwen Zhang, Pascal Giard. 2026 « HardVault: A hybrid FPGA-based Ethereum-Bitcoin cold wallet ». IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems vol. 34 , nº 8. p. 2469-2482
Gabriel Ouaknine-Beaulieu, Xinyi Zhang, Charles Pillet, Jérémie Voix, Rachel Bouserhal, Pascal Giard. 2026 « Enabling personalized communication with advanced hearing protection devices: Integrating and evaluating concepts of a radio acoustical virtual environment ». Journal of the Acoustical Society of America vol. 159 , nº 3. p. 1762-1775
Joel Poncha Lemayian, Ghyslain Gagnon, Kaiwen Zhang, Pascal Giard. 2025 « EthVault: A secure and resource-conscious FPGA-based ethereum cold wallet ». IET Blockchain vol. 5 , nº 1
Charles Pillet, Ilshat Sagitov, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Pascal Giard. 2025 « Restart mechanisms for the successive-cancellation list-flip decoding of polar codes ». Entropy vol. 27 , nº 3
Charles Pillet, Ilshat Sagitov, Pascal Giard. 2025 « On reducing decoding complexity of successive-cancellation list flip decoding of polar codes ». Journal of Signal Processing Systems for Signal Image and Video Technology vol. 97 , nº 5-6. p. 293-306
Ilshat Sagitov, Charles Pillet, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Pascal Giard. 2025 « Generalized restart mechanism for successive-cancellation flip decoding of polar codes ». Journal of Signal Processing Systems for Signal Image and Video Technology vol. 97 , nº 1. p. 11-29
Gabriel Ouaknine-Beaulieu, Xinyi Zhang, Jeremie Voix, Rachel Bouserhal, Pascal Giard. 2024 « The added value of radio-acoustic virtual environment ». Journal of the Acoustical Society of America vol. 156 , nº 4, Suppl.. p. A126
Charles Pillet, Ilshat Sagitov, Valerio Bioglio, Pascal Giard. 2024 « Shortened polar codes under automorphism ensemble decoding ». IEEE Communications Letters vol. 28 , nº 4. p. 773-777
Diego Barragán-Guerrero, Minh Au, Ghyslain Gagnon, François Gagnon, Pascal Giard. 2023 « Early-detection scheme based on sequential tests for low-latency communications ». EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking vol. 2023 , nº 1
Samet Gelincik, Charles Pillet, Pascal Giard. 2023 « Dynamic frozen-function design for reed-muller codes with automorphism-based decoding ». IEEE Communications Letters vol. 27 , nº 2. p. 497-501
Ngoc Thi Thu Nguyen, Toan Quang The Bui, Ghyslain Gagnon, Pascal Giard, Georges Kaddoum. 2022 « Designing a pseudo-random bit generator with a novel five-dimensional-hyperchaotic system ». IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol. 69 , nº 6. p. 6101-6110
Jean-Francois Tetu, Louis-Charles Trudeau, Michiel Van Beirendonck, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Pascal Giard. 2020 « A standalone FPGA-Based miner for Lyra2REv2 cryptocurrencies ». IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers vol. 67 , nº 4. p. 1194-1206
Carlo Condo, Pascal Giard, Francois Leduc-Primeau, Gabi Sarkis, Warren J. Gross. 2018 « A 9.52 dB NCG FEC scheme and 162 b/Cycle low-complexity product decoder architecture ». IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers vol. 65 , nº 4. p. 1420-1431
Pascal Giard, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Gabi Sarkis, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross. 2018 « Fast low-complexity decoders for low-rate polar codes ». Journal of Signal Processing Systems vol. 90 , nº 5. p. 675-685
Pascal Giard, Gabi Sarkis, Camille Leroux, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross. 2018 « Low-latency software polar decoders ». Journal of Signal Processing Systems vol. 90 , nº 5. p. 761-775
Pascal Giard, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Thomas Christoph Muller, Andrea Bonetti, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross, Philippe Flatresse, Andreas Burg. 2017 « PolarBear: A 28 nm FD-SOI ASIC for decoding of polar codes ». IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems vol. 7 , nº 4. p. 616-629
Francisco J. Escribano, Georges Kaddoum, Alexandre Wagemakers, Pascal Giard. 2016 « Design of a new differential chaos-shift-keying system for continuous mobility ». IEEE Transactions on Communications vol. 64 , nº 5. p. 2066-2078
Pascal Giard, Gabi Sarkis, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross. 2016 « Multi-mode unrolled architectures for polar decoders ». IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers vol. 63 , nº 9. p. 1443-1453
Gabi Sarkis, Pascal Giard, Alexander Vardy, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross. 2016 « Fast list decoders for polar codes ». IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications vol. 34 , nº 2. p. 318-328
Gabi Sarkis, Ido Tal, Pascal Giard, Alexander Vardy, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross. 2016 « Flexible and low-complexity encoding and decoding of systematic polar codes ». IEEE Transactions on Communications vol. 64 , nº 7. p. 2732-2745
P. Giard, G. Sarkis, Claude Thibeault, W. J. Gross. 2015 « 237 Gbit/s unrolled hardware polar decoder ». Electronics Letters vol. 51 , nº 10. p. 762-763
G. Sarkis, P. Giard, A. Vardy, Claude Thibeault, W. J. Gross. 2014 « Fast Polar Decoders: Algorithm and Implementation ». IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications vol. 32 , nº 5. p. 946-957

Warren Gross, Gabi Sarkis, Pascal Giard. 2020-02-18 « Flexible polar encoders and decoders ». Brevet américain US 10,567,010.
Pascal Giard, Gabi Sarkis, Warren Gross, Claude Thibeault. 2019-05-28 « Multi-mode unrolled polar decoders ». Brevet américain US 10,305,514.
Warren Gross, Gabi Sarkis, Pascal Giard, Camille Leroux. 2019-01-29 « Flexible polar encoders and decoders ». Brevet américain US 10,193,578.

Pascal Giard. 2025 « Matériel pour la finance décentralisée et la cryptographie, et codes correcteurs d’erreurs efficaces ». Communication lors de la conférence : Laboratoire de l’Intégration du Matériau au Système (IMS) (Bordeaux, France, nov., 2025)
P. Lemayian, G. Gagnon, K. Zhang, P. Giard. 2024 « WiP: Towards a secure SECP256K1 for crypto wallets: Hardware architecture and implementation ». Communication lors de la conférence : International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP) (Austin, TX, USA, Nov. 02, 2024)
Pascal Giard. 2023 « On the challenges and opportunities in error-correction solutions ». Communication lors de la conférence : ReSMiQ Seminars, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) (Montréal, QC, Canada, nov., 2023)
Pascal Giard. 2019 « Implementation aspects of forward error-correction solutions ». Communication lors de la conférence : LACIME First Annual Congress (Montréal, QC, Canada, 21 fév. 2019)
Pascal Giard. 2018 « Polar codes: algorithms and implementation aspects ». Communication lors de la conférence : Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Codierungstheorie und Kryptographie (Spring 18) (Zurich, Suisse, June 06, 2018)
Pascal Giard, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Andreas Burg. 2018 « Blind detection of polar codes ». Communication lors de la conférence : 2018 Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA) (San Diego, CA, USA, Feb. 11-16, 2018)
Pascal Giard, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Nicholas Preyss. 2017 « Polar codes and APSK modulation - just good friends ». Communication lors de la conférence : 2017 Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA) (San Diego, CA, USA, Feb. 12-17, 2017)
Pascal Giard. 2015 « Fast software and hardware polar decoders : algorithms, architectures, and implementations ». Communication lors de la conférence : Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Lausanne, Suisse, Nov. 2015)
Pascal Giard, Alexandre J. Raymond. 2015 « Polar FEC codes running at hundreds of Mbit/s in GNU radio or on a software implementation of the Fast-SSC algorithm ». Communication lors de la conférence : GNU Radio Conference (GRCon15) (Washington, DC, USA, Aug. 24-28, 2015)
Pascal Giard, Jean-François Boland, Jean Belzile. 2008 « CORBA based co-verification methodology for systemC ». Communication lors de la conférence : 8th North American SystemC User Group Meeting (NASCUG) (San Jose, CA, USA, Feb. 19-22, 2008)
P. Giard, J. F. Boland, J. Belzile. 2007 « CORBA based communication for verification ». Communication lors de la conférence : CMC Microsystems 2007 Annual Symposium (Ottawa, ON, Canada, Oct. 18, 2007)
Pascal Giard, Jean-François Boland, Jean Belzile. 2007 « Hardware-in-the-loop functional verification methodology ». Communication lors de la conférence : OMG’s Third Software-Based Communication Workshop : Realizing the Vision (Fairfax, VA, USA, Mar. 5-8, 2007)

Joel Poncha Lemayian, Hachem Bensalem, Ghyslain Gagnon, Kaiwen Zhang, Pascal Giard. 2025 « EVMx: An FPGA-based smart contract processing unit ». IEEE 49th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) (Toronto, ON, Canada, July 08-11, 2025) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Charles Pillet, Ilshat Sagitov, Dominic Deslandes, Pascal Giard. 2025 « Successive-cancellation flip and perturbation decoder of polar codes ». IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) (Milan, Italy, Mar. 24-27, 2025) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Charles Pillet, Ilshat Sagitov, Grégoire Domer, Pascal Giard. 2024 « Partitioned successive-cancellation list flip decoding of polar codes ». IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, SiPS: Design and Implementation (Cambridge, MA, USA, Nov. 04-06, 2024) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Nour Zidi, Lokman Sboui, Pascal Giard, Jérémie Voix. 2024 « Pioneering relative localization for enhanced communication in a radio-acoustical virtual environment (RAVE) ». IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) (Kingston, ON, Canada, Aug. 06-09, 2024) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pascal Giard, Syed Aizaz Ali Shah, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Maximilian Stark, Gerhard Bauch. 2023 « Unrolled and pipelined decoders based on look-up tables for polar codes ». 12th International Symposium on Topics in Coding (ISTC) (Brest, France, Sept. 04-08, 2023) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Charles Pillet, Valerio Bioglio, Pascal Giard. 2023 « On the distribution of partially-symmetric codes for automorphism ensemble decoding ». IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) (Saint-Malo, France, Apr. 23-28, 2023) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Ilshat Sagitov, Charles Pillet, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Pascal Giard. 2023 « Successive-cancellation flip decoding of polar codes with a simplified restart mechanism ». IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC (Glasgow, UK, Mar. 26-29, 2023) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Ilshat Sagitov, Pascal Giard. 2020 « An early-stopping mechanism for DSCF decoding of polar codes ». 34th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) (Virtual, Coimbra, Portugal, Oct. 20-22, 2020) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Diego Barragán Guerrero, Minh Au, Ghyslain Gagnon, François Gagnon, Pascal Giard. 2019 « Early detection for optimal-latency communications in multi-hop links ». Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (Oulu, Finland, Aug. 27-30, 2019) VDE Verlag GmbH
Michiel Van Beirendonck, Louis-Charles Trudeau, Pascal Giard, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming. 2019 « A Lyra2 FPGA core for Lyra2REv2-based cryptocurrencies ». 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (Sapporo, Japan, May 26-29, 2019) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pascal Giard, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Andreas Burg. 2018 « On the tradeoff between accuracy and complexity in blind detection of polar codes ». International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing 2018 (ISTC) (Hong Kong, China, Dec. 03-07, 2018) IEEE
Pascal Giard, Andreas Burg. 2018 « Fast-SSC-flip decoding of polar codes ». IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW) (Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 15-18, 2018) IEEE
Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Pascal Giard, Andreas Burg. 2017 « Comparison of polar decoders with existing low-density parity-check and turbo decoders ». IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW) (San Francisco, CA, USA, Mar. 19-22, 2017) IEEE
Pascal Giard, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Andreas Burg. 2017 « Blind detection of polar codes ». IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) (Lorient, France, Oct. 03-05, 2017) IEEE
Carlo Condo, François Leduc-Primeau, Gabi Sarkis, Pascal Giard, Warren J. Gross. 2016 « Stall pattern avoidance in polynomial product codes ». IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) (Washington, DC, USA, Dec. 07-09, 2016) IEEE
Pascal Giard, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Thomas Christoph Muller, Andreas Burg, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross. 2016 « A multi-Gbps unrolled hardware list decoder for a systematic polar code ». 50th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov. 06-09, 2016) IEEE
Pascal Giard, Gabi Sarkis, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Fan YouZhe, Tsui Chi-ying, Andreas Burg, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross. 2016 « Hardware decoders for polar codes: An overview ». 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (Montréal, QC, Canada, May 22-25, 2016) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Seyyed Ali Hashemi, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Pascal Giard, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross. 2016 « Partitioned successive-cancellation list decoding of polar codes ». 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (Shanghai, China, Marc. 20-25, 2016) IEEE
Pascal Giard, Gabi Sarkis, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross. 2015 « A 638 Mbps low-complexity rate 1/2 polar decoder on FPGAs ». 2015 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) (Hangzhou, China, Oct. 14-16, 2015) IEEE
P. Giard, G. Sarkis, Claude Thibeault, W. J. Gross. 2014 « Fast software polar decoders ». 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (Florence, Italy, May 4-9, 2014) IEEE
Georges Kaddoum, Pascal Giard. 2014 « Analog network coding for multi-user spread-spectrum communication systems ». IEEE wireless communications and networking conference WCNC 2014 (Istanbul, Turkey, Apr. 6-9, 2014) IEEE
G. Sarkis, P. Giard, Claude Thibeault, W. J. Gross. 2014 « Autogenerating software polar decoders ». 2014 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) (Atlanta, GA, USA, Dec. 3-5, 2014) IEEE
G. Sarkis, P. Giard, A. Vardy, Claude Thibeault, W. J. Gross. 2014 « Increasing the speed of polar list decoders ». 2014 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) (Belfast, Ireland, Oct. 20-22, 2014) IEEE
Pascal Giard, Georges Kaddoum, François Gagnon, Claude Thibeault. 2012 « FPGA implementation and evaluation of discrete-time chaotic generators circuits ». 38th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2012 (Montreal, QC, Canada, Oct. 25-28, 2012) IEEE Computer Society
Georges Kaddoum, Julien Olivain, Guillaume Beaufort Samson, Pascal Giard, François Gagnon. 2012 « Implementation of a Differential Chaos Shift Keying communication system in GNU radio ». 2012 9th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) (Paris, France, Aug. 28-31, 2012) IEEE
François Leduc-Primeau, Alexandre J. Raymond, Pascal Giard, Kevin Cushon, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross. 2012 « High-throughput LDPC decoding using the RHS algorithm ». 2012 Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP) (Karlsruhe, Germany, Oct. 23-25, 2012) IEEE
Marc Joliveau, Pascal Giard, Michel Gendreau, François Gagnon, Claude Thibeault. 2011 « Design of low complexity multiplierless digital filters with optimized free structure using a population-based metaheuristic ». International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems (ISSCS) (Iasi, Romania, June 30-July 1, 2011) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society
Pascal Giard, Jean-François Boland, Jean Belzile. 2008 « CORBA communication backplane for design and verification ». 1st Microsystems and Nanoelectronics Research Conference (MNRC) (Ottawa, Canada, Oct. 15, 2008) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society