Màrius

Personal Details

Education

Language skills

Professional experience

• Head of Space Embedded & HW/SW development at Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, 2019 – 2024
  • Space projects manager
  • Embedded SW developer
  • HW/SW integration for space systems.
• CTO & Co-founder IoT-Partners, 2015 –
  • Design and development of IoT projects
  • Project management
• Innovation Unit Manager at Worldsensing, 2012 – 2015
  • EU Projects
  • Innovation process management
• R&D Engineer Worldsensing 2010 – 2012
  • Firmware Engineer: FreeRTOS
• R&D Engineer at CEPHIS (http://cephis.uab.cat), 2005 . 2010.
  • Involved in several R&D projects
  • TI Manager
  • Intellectual Property Manager
• Freelance engineer for GreenSocs (http://www.greensocs.com), 2007 . 2010.
  • Implementation of the SystemC Bridge for Simics by Virtutech.
  • Add support to checkpoint & restore to SystemC integrated into Simics SystemC Bridge
  • Complete SoC modeled in SystemC using QEMU as a ISS.
• Assistant teacher, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), 2003 – now:
  • Course in Reliable and Efficient Programming in RUST Language (link), UAB Specialisation Course.
  • Computers Basics, 1st semesters Computer Science Engineering.
  • Digital Systems Technologies, 7th semester Computer Science Engineering.
  • HW/SW Co-design. 7th semester Computer Science Engineering.
  • Electronic Systems Design, 8th semester Electronic Engineering.
  • Some lectures on gPlatforms based designh and gSystemCh for Master and PhD students.
  • >50 Final Degree Projects directed
• Assistant teacher, Universitat OBerta de Catalunya (UOC), 2012 – 2014:
  • Embedded Systems, Computer Science Engineer.

Professional skills

• Project management
  • H2020
• Embedded SW development
  • C/C++
  • FreeRTOS
• SystemC + TLM
• Other languages
  • Rust
  • Python
  • VHDL

Research skills

• RISC-V-TLM: RISC-V virtual platform written in SystemC+TLM.
• QEMU-SC and QBox Virtual platforms founder and developer.
• Extensive knowledge of SystemC and TLM-2, VHDL and Synthesis tools for FPGA.
• C and C++ expertise, among Java, PHP and other programming languages.

Publications

Journals

1. Special Issue “Smart Objects in the Internet of Things: From Sensor to Data Processing”, Ed. M. Picone, M. Mamei, M. Montón. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, 2019. (IF=3.71)
2. “Supporting the IoT Business Value Through platformization of pilots,” B. Martínez, X. Vilajosana, M. Montón, I. Vilajosana, Special Issue Beyond Testbeds: Real-World IoT Deployements. IEEE Pervasive Computing. vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 29-39, 1 Oct.-Dec. 2018. 10.1109/MPRV.2018.2873857. (IF=3.250)
3. “Early Scavenger Dimensioning in Wireless Industrial Monitoring Applications”, Borja Martinez, Màrius Montón, Xavier Vilajosana, Ignasi Vilajosana. IEEE Internet Of Things Journal. April 2016. DOI:10.1109/JIOT.2015.2483750. (IF=7.596)
4. “Device-to-device communications in wireless sensor networks“, Yujin Lim, Gianluigi Ferrari, Hideyuki Takahashi, Màrius Montón. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. August 2016 vol. 12 no. 8. DOI: 10.1177/1550147716664233 (IF=1.787)
5. “A Scalable big stream cloud architecture for the Internet of Things,” L. Belli, S. Cirani, L. Davoli, G. Ferrari, L. Melegari, M. Montón. International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering, Vol 5, no 4 pp.26-53, Oct. 2015
6. “The Power of Models: Modeling Power Consumption for IoT Devices,” Martinez, B.; Monton, M.; Vilajosana, I.; Prades, J.D., in Sensors Journal, IEEE, vol.15, no.10, pp.5777-5789, Oct. 2015 DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2445094. (IF=2.617)
7. “Wireless Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring,”, Yujin Lim, Gianluigi Ferrari, Hideyuki Takahashi, and Màrius Montón, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 2015, Article ID 425683, 1 pages, 2015. DOI:10.1155/2015/425683. (IF=1.787)
8. “Checkpointing for Virtual Platforms and SystemC-TLM“, M. Montón, J. Engblom, M. Burton. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scalation Integration (VLSI) Systems., Volume PP, Issue: 99, Pages:1-9. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVLSI.2011.2181881. (IF=1.744)
9. “Data-dominant Application Space Exploration on Custom Platform Approach“, Antoni Portero, Guillermo Talavera, Borja Martinez, Màrius Montón, Jordi Carrabina, Francky Catthoor, International Journal of Sciences and Computer Engineering, Vol. 2, no 1,Pages:21-29, 2011. (IF=1.22)

Book chapters

1. Belli, L., Cirani, S., Davoli, L., Ferrari, G., Melegari, L., Montón, M., Picone, M., “A Scalable Big Stream cloud architecture for the Internet of Things”. (Inbook) “Fog Computing: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice”. June 2018. IGI Global. ISBN: 9781522556497. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5649-7
2. P. Medagliani, J. Leguay, A. Duda, F. Rousseau, S. Duquennoy, S. Raza, G. Ferrari, P. Gonizzi, S. Cirani, L. Veltri, M. Montón, M. Domingo, M. Dohler, I. Villajosana, O. Dupont, “Bringing IP to Low-power Smart Objects: The Smart Parking Case in the CALIPSO Project” (Inbook) O. Vermesan, Friess (Ed.): “Internet of Things – From Research and Innovation to Market Deployement“. pp. 287-313, The River Publishers Series in Communications, Alborg, Denmark, 2014, ISBN: 9788793102941.
3. Pompeu Casanovas, Xavier Binefa, Ciro Gracia, Emma Teodoro, Núria Galera, Mercedes Blázquez, Marta Poblet, Jordi Carrabina, Màrius Montón, Carlos Montero, Javier Serrano, José Manuel López-Cobo, “The e-Sentencias Prototype: A Procedural Ontology for Legal Multimedia Applications in the Spanish Civil Courts”, pp 199 – 219. Law, Ontologies and the Semantic Web. IOS Press, 2009. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-942-4-199. ISBN: 978-1-58603-942-4.
4. M. Montón, J. Engblom, C. Schröder, J. Carrabina and M. Burton, “Checkpoint and Restore for Systemc Models”, In Bornione D., editor. “Advances in Design Methods from Modeling Languages for Embedded Systems and SoC’s”, Vol 63. Springer 2010; (Lecture Notes on Electrical Engineering; vol 63). ISBN: 978-9048193035
5. Màrius Montón, Mark Burton, Jordi Carrabina. “High-level platform modeling and exploration: Checkpointing for Virtual Platforms and SystemC & TLM-2.0.1”, pp. 3 – 132. (Germany): LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011, ISBN 3844307265

Conference papers

1. Ian Blanes, Joan Serra, Màrius Montón, Jose María Gómez, Daniel Ferrer, Jan Gómez, Carles Sierra, Lucas Juvero, Marc Ortega, Helena Carré, Roger Ribas, Jordi Portell, Juan Jose Ramos, “In-Orbit Demonstration Operations Of The High-Performance On-Board Processing Capabilities Of C3SatP”, 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), 14-18 October 2024, Milan, Italy.
2. Eugeni Casadesus, Aleix Valdivieso, Michelle Vargas and Marius Montón, “Deploying Neural Networks on RISC-V with VPU”, RISC-V Summit Europe 2024, June 24-28, Munich, Germany.
3. Eugeni Casadesus, Michelle Vargas, Aleix Valdivieso and Marius Montón, “Redes Neuronales en RISC-V con aceleración vectorial”, VIII Jornadas de Computación Empotrada y Reconfigurable (JCER’24), 17-19 June 2024, A coruña, Spain.
4. Màrius Montón, et al. “Flying Thigs: One year in orbit”, Small Satellites & Services International Forum, 20-22 Feb 2024. Málaga, Spain.
5. J.A. Ruiz-de-Azua, J. Pagès, M. Marín, O. Baselga, C. Labella, M. Catalan, P. Guixé, M. Montón, J. Colomé, M. de Quadras, I. Llorens, and M. Guadalupi “Demonstrations Of Direct-To-Satellite Iot For Earth Observation Applications: Irrigation Monitoring And Animal Tracking” IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2023. Pasadena, California.
6. J.A. Ruiz-de-Azua et al. «Proof-Of-Concept Of Direct-To-Satellite Iot For Earth Observation Applications: Soil Moisture Experiment» IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2022. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
7. Jordi Portell, Márius Montón , Riccardo Iudica and Alberto G. Villafranca, “FASEC: Fast and Simple Entropy Coder“, 7th International Workshop on On-Board Payload Data Compression, 21 – 23 Sep, 2020.
8. Màrius Montón, Xavier Salazar, “On licenses for [Open] Hardware” 2020 35th Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems, DCIS 2020, Virtual event.
9. Màrius Montón, “A RISC-V SystemC-TLM simulator” Fourth Workshop on Computer Architecture Research with RISC-V, May 2020. Virtual event.
10. Jordi Portell, Màrius Montón, “Efficient & versatile data compressor for CubeSat onboard computers & data handling systems” Spanish small satellites international forum, February 2020.
11. Marc Domingo-Prieto, Borja Martínez, M. Montón, I. Vilajosana, Xavier Vilajosana, J. Arnedo-Moreno, «Balancing Power Consumption in IoT Devices by Using Variable Packet Size». Eighth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems. 2014.
12. Laura Belli, Simone Cirani, Luca Davoli, Lorenzo Melegari, Màrius Montón, Marco Picone, “An Open-Source Cloud Architecture for Big Stream IoT Applications (Inproceeding)“, IEEE 22st International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), Split (Croatia), September 17-19, 2014 , 2014.
13. Marius Monton, Mark Burton and Frederic Konrad; GreenSocs David Black presenting, “Reverse Execution for Qemu-Based SystemC Virtual Platforms” 19th NASCUG, June 2013
14. M. Montón, J. Engblom, M. Burton, “Checkpoint and Restore for SystemC Models” in Proceedings of International Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL), Sophia Antipolis, France, Sep. 2009, pp. 1-6.
15. M. Montón, J. Carrabina, M. Burton, “Mixed Simulation Kernels for High Performance Virtual Platforms”, in Proceedings of International Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL), Sophia Antipolis, France, Sep. 2009, pp. 1-6.
16. M. Montón, B. Martínez, J. Carrabina, “Síntesis de Canales TLM para procesador Nios-II” in VIII Jornadas de Computación Reconfigurable y Aplicaciones, (JCRA), Madrid, Sep., 2008.
17. B. Martínez, J. López, M. Montón, J. Carrabina, “Sistema de Control Acceso por Reconocimiento Óptico de Documentos sobre Nios-II”, in VIII Jornadas de Computación Reconfigurable y Aplicaciones, (JCRA), Madrid, Sep., 2008.
18. P. Rujan, F. Vuillod, B. Gomm, M. Montón, D. Castells. “AMASS Core: Associative Memory Array for Semantic Search” in IP Based Electronic System Conference & Exhibition. Dec. 2007. Grenoble, France.
19. C. Gracia, P. Casanovas, J. Carrabina, X. Binefa, E. Teodoro, M. Montón, N. Casellas, C. Montero, N. Galera, J. Serrano, M. Poblet, “Legal Knowledge Acquisition and Multimedia Applications”, in Knowledge acquisition from multimedia content Workshop (KAMC’07). Second International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2007, Genova, Italy, Dec., 2007.
20. M. Montón, J. Carrabina, C. Montero, J. Serrano, X. Binefa, C. Gracia, M. Blázquez, J. Contreras, E. Teodoro, N. Casell, J.J. Vallbé, M. Poblet and P. Casanovas, “Accelerating Semantic Search with Application of Specific Platform” in Workshop on Semantic Web Technology for Law (SW4Law), Stanford University, USA, June, 2007.
21. X. Binefa, C. Gracia, M. Montón, J. Carrabina, C. Montero, J. Serrano, M. Blázquez, R. Benjamins, E. Teodoro, P. Casanova, M. Poblet, “Developing ontologies for legal multimedia applications”, in Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Technique (LOAIT Workshop), Stanford University, USA, 2007.
22. M. Montón, A. Portero, M. Moreno, B. Martínez, J. Carrabina, “Mixed SW/SystemC SoC Emulation Framework” in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics. (ISIE). Vigo, June 2007, pp. 2338-2341.
23. A. Portero, G. Talavera, M. Montón, B. Martinez, J. Carrabina, “NoC System for MPEG-4 SP using heterogeneous tiles”, in XXI Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems. (DCIS), Barcelona 22-24 November 2006.
24. A. Portero, G. Talavera, M. Montón, B. Martinez, M. Moreno, F. Cathoor, J. Carrabina, “Energy-aware MPEG-4 Single Profile in HW-SW Multi-platform implementation”, in IEEE International SOC Conference, Sep., 2006, pp 1316..
25. B. Martínez, M. Montón, J. Carrabina, “Síntesis de Unidades Funcionales para Soft-Cores desde un modelo C/C++”, in VI Jornadas de Computación Reconfigurable y Aplicaciones, (JCRA), Càceres, Sep., 2006.
26. A. Portero, G. Talavera, M. Montón, B. Martinez, F. Cathoor, J. Carrabina, “Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Power Efficient MPEG4-SP Implementation”, in Proceedings of the IEEE 17th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, 2006, pp. 257-260
27. L. Ribas-Xirgo, D. Castells, M. Monton, J. Carrabina, “A Rapid Sorting Unit based on Programmable Shifting Register Files”, in XX Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems. (DCIS), Lisboa, Portugal, Nov., 2005.
28. M. Montón, O. Font, J. Joven, P. García, L. Terés, J. Carrabina, “XML specification and tools for Automatic SoC Generation”, in XIX Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems. (DCIS), Bordeaux, France, Nov., 2004.
29. D. Castells, M. Montón, R. Pla, D. Novo, A. Portero, O. Navas, J. Farré, L. Ribas, J. Carrabina, “Comparing Design Flows for Structural System Level Specifications facing FPGA Platforms”, in XIX Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems. (DCIS), Bordeaux, France, Nov., 2004. .
30. D. Castells-Rufas, M. Montón, L. Ribas, J. Carrabina, “High performance Parallel Llinear Sorter Core Design”, in GSPx, The international embedded Solutions Event, Santa Clara, CA, Sep., 2004.
31. J. Carrabina, M. Montón, R. Martínez, J. Joven, O. Font, R. Ruíz, P. García, L. Terés, “Bus-centric SoC Architecture Generation Tools”, in GSPx, The international embedded Solutions Event, Santa Clara, CA, Sep., 2004.

Teaching publications

1. X. Fitó, G. Talavera, B. Lorente, M. Montón, B. Martínez, C. Ferrer, E. Valderrama, “Cas pràctic d’adaptació metodològica a les directrius EEES d’una assignatura d’enginyeria Informàtica”, in III Jornada de Campus d’Innovació Docent, UAB, Barcelona, Spain, 2006.
2. G. Talavera, X. Fitó, B. Lorente, A. Portero, M. Montón , B. Martínez, J. Oliver, C. Ferrer, L. Ribas, J. Aguiló, E. Valderrama, “Adaptación metodológica a las nuevas directrices del EEES en la enseñanza tècnica universitaria”, in Tecnologías Aplicadas a la Enseñanza de la Electrónica (TAEE), Madrid, Spain, 2006.
3. G. Talavera, B. Lorente, M. Montón , B. Martínez, J. Oliver, C. Ferrer, L. Ribas, J. Aguiló, E. Valderrama, “Nuevas metodologías docentes y autoaprendizaje en la enseñanza técnica universitaria”, in IV Congrès Internacional de Docència Universitària i Innovació. (CIDUI), Barcelona, Spain, 2006.

R&D Projects

1. Transmedia, 2009SGR700, PR: Pilar Orero; Budget: 36,000 €.
2. Diseño de una plataforma MP para Inteligencia Ambiental, TEC2008-03835. PR: Jordi Carrabina; Budget: 83,974,00 €.
3. IP Core and System Design of Associative Memory Arrays for Semantic Search. AMASS. CRAFT 18283/AMASS. PR: Jordi Carrabina; Budget: 209.680,00 €.
4. Many other Spanish government and private fund projects.