Design of Digital Systems, KR Group, IES
Design of Digital Systems
Internationally, research within design of digital systems spans a very large field, from transistor to system level. At the Circuit and Radio Systems group, NTNU, our research in this field is currently focused on the following selected topics (to be detailed below):
- Sub- and near-threshold circuits
- Energy efficient heterogeneous multiprocessor systems
- Electronic systems engineering
- Verification and test of digital systems
Sub- and near-threshold circuits
Contact: Snorre Aunet
Energy efficient heterogeneous multiprocessor systems
Contact: Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg
Future generations of embedded systems will continue to grow in complexity and be designed as combinations of different types of components: microprocessors, signal processors, RAM/ROM, digital logic and analogue circuits. The processing elements will be heterogeneous in nature, and can be anything from a standard processor to more specialized or even field programmable hardware units. Often all components are integrated on a single chip, constituting a Multi Processor System on Chip (MPSoC). Key characteristics of the applications to be run on these systems will be intensive computation, large data transfer and storage requirement, and need for efficient resource management. All implemented within strict energy budgets. In such systems it is essential to optimize the utilization of computational resources both statically at design time, and dynamically at run-time.
In order to contribute to solving these challenges we participate in research projects and cooperate with leading research groups both nationally and internationally. Examples are the Energy Efficient Computing Systems strategic research initiative at NTNU, the Special Interest Group on Scenario Driven Design for Embedded Systems, the Horizon 2020 EU project Runtime Exploitation of Application Dynamism for Energy-efficient eXascale computing (READEX), and the Horizon 2020 EU project Towards Ubiquitous Low-power Image Processing Platforms (TULIPP).
Electronic systems engineering
Contact: Milica Orlandic
Verification and test of digital systems
Contact: Bjørn B. Larsen
Contact
Professor Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg
Research
Current and Former Projects:
Observational Pyramid with Hyperspectral Nano-Satellites for Ocean Science (HYPSCI)
Runtime Exploitation of Application Dynamism for Energy-efficient eXascale computing (READEX)
Towards Ubiquitous Low-power Image Processing Platforms (TULIPP)