Overview

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

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

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

Internship 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