Research Areas of Expertise | Consortium for Embedded Systems | SIU

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:

Cyber-physical Systems and the Internet of Things

• Modeling and simulation
• Model based formal verification and semi-formal testing
• Model based synthesis from high-level specifications
• IoT applications

Low-power Systems, Energy and Thermal-Aware Design

• Low-power systems circuit architectures and design tools
• Dynamic peformance, low-power systems, 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

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