Dominique Cachin

Work at ZHAW

Position

Head of Research/Focus Area Distributed Communication Systems

Focus

• High-performance embedded computing on heterogenous chip architectures
• Network based communications, time synchronization, high datarate with low latency, guaranteed quality of service, redundancy
• Wireless communication, Software Defined Radio, 5G

Teaching

Senior Lecturer Digital technology, Communication technology, Information theory

Professional development teaching

WBK Embedded Linux für Fortgeschrittene: Vom Kernel bis zu Realtime-Systemen

Projects

• ViscoControl - Control of the injection molding process to compensate for the viscosity fluctuation of recycled plastic / Project leader / ongoing
• PERFORMA – Performance-optimized video compression and synchronization for real-time applications / Project leader / ongoing
• Control platform for gallium nitride-based power converter / Team member / completed
• High Speed Networking Switch for Surgical Research / Project leader / completed
• Scalable AV Platform for Edge AI Computing / Project leader / completed

Publications

• Schorp, Vincent; Giraud, Frédéric; Pargätzi, Gianluca; Wäspe, Michael; von Ritter-Zahony, Lorenzo; Wegmann, Marcel; Cavalcanti, Nicola A.; Henao, John Garcia; Bünger, Nicholas; Cachin, Dominique; Caprara, Sebastiano; Fürnstahl, Philipp; Carrillo, Fabio,

  2025.

  A modular edge device network for surgery digitalization[paper].

  In:

  17th Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, London, United Kingdom, 24-27 June 2025.

  arXiv.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2503.14049

• von Ritter-Zahony, Lorenzo; Cachin, Dominique,

  2024.

  High speed networking switch on ARM based SoC.

  In:

  Embedded Computing Conference (ECC), Winterthur, Switzerland, 28 May 2024.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Patents:   T. Sivanthi, T. Widmer, D. Cachin et all: Tunnelling time-critical messages between substations over WAN, 2015, EP 3 114 802 B1   D. Cachin, R. Baechli, A. Gygax, H. Spiess: Data transmission over packet switched network, 2013, EP 2 805 441 B1   D. Cachin, A. Gygax, H. Maag: Security framework for transmitting communication messages between a substation LAN and packet-switched WAN, 2013, EP2887605A1   D. Cachin, C. Leeb: Network interface for transmitting protection data of a power network, 2013, EP 2 887 593 B1   C. Leeb, D. Isch, D. Cachin: Medium voltage power line communication coupler, 2013, ES 1 098 130 U   D. Cachin, M. Kranich, C. Leeb: Parallel Redundancy Protocol, PRP, packet duplication over VLANs based on Spanning Tree instances, 2011, EP 2 568 673 A1   H. Benninger, D. Cachin, R. Comino: Utility communication method and system, 2011, EP 2 617 138 B1

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