Main Research Lines

• System-level Design Automation

  Hardware-Software Co-design, Embedded Systems Co-Synthesis, Hardware-Software Partitioning, Scheduling, System-level Specification. Reconfigurable Systems.

• Low Power Design

  Design and study of low power digital circuits. Power consumption evaluation and estimation. Power optimization by means of hardware and software techniques.

• VLSI Systems Design

  Specification, verification and design of digital circuits. Design methodologies. Special Architectures for Communication Applications

• Computer Architecture

  Application Specific Instruction-Set Processors (ASIPs), Special architectures targeting low power.

Research projects

• OPTIMA (TEC2006-00739)
  
• MARCE (TIC2003-07036) Methods and architectures to reduce energy consumption in embbeded systems. Spanish Ministery of Science and Technology.
• Integrated Action, Politecnico de Torino (II)
• CORE (TIC2000-0583-C02)
• Integrated Action, Politecnico de Torino (I)
• HADA (TIC97-0928)
• INTEGRAL (TIC93-0515-C02-01)
• COBRA (Esprit 8135)