Overview
Areas of expertise
Many of the world’s top companies supplement their own R&D efforts by participating in NSF I/UCRC organizations. The Center for Embedded Systems specializes in research in the following areas:
Power, energy and thermal-aware design
- Low power circuit architectures and design tools
- Dynamic peformance, power, energy and thermal management for multicore embedded systems
- Statistical variation aware design of digital systems
- Energy efficient architectures and code optimization for embedded systems
Electronic system-level (ESL) design and technologies
- Modeling and simulation
- Hardware/software co-design and optimization
- Trusted, reliable, and secure design
Embedded multicore architectures and programming
- Network-on-Chip design and optimization
- Compilation of stream applications on multicore processors
- Highly power-efficient programmable accelerators
- Soft error resilient system design
- Design and programming of low power embedded systems
- Embedded GPU computing
- Temperature- and variations-aware architectures and programming
Embedded software systems
- Real-time scheduling
- Embedded systems for smart grids
- Middleware and VM for embedded systems
- Embedded software instrumentation and tools
Cyber-physical systems
- Modeling and simulation
- Model based formal verification and semi-formal testing
- Model based synthesis from high-level specifications
Integrated circuit technologies, design, and test
- Semiconductors for hostile environments
- Device physics and modeling
- Microelectronic device and sensor design and manufacturing
- Analog/RF/mixed signal circuit design and test
- Testing and silicon debug of digital circuits
Benefits of membership
Industry-relevant research projects
- Participate in timely research in embedded systems
- Conduct pre-competitive or exploratory research in an efficient, cost-effective way
- Access the minds and work of more than a dozen faculty members with laboratory and computing facilities
- Chart your own course, as base membership enables a member-directed research project
Industrial fellows student program
- Access academically outstanding engineering students – undergraduate and graduate levels
- Gain a recruiting advantage by developing relationships with well-trained interns at an early stage
- Hire the best, through your opportunity to select experienced interns for permanent employment
IP arrangement
- Results of shared research projects available to all
- Royalty-free non-exclusive IP rights on shared research projects
Leverage of industry/university partnership
- Direct university projects at significantly reduced overhead
- Realize greater ROI due to the pooling effect of memberships
- Maximize your research dollars with federal matching funds