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NIRICT Design Labs

NIRICT Design Labs. Rene van Leuken Delft University of Technology t.g.r.m.vanleuken@tudelft.nl. With acknowledgements to the DL partners for their contributions! NIRICT Strategiedag, Utrecht, 12 Feb. 2009. NIRICT Design Labs.

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NIRICT Design Labs

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  1. NIRICT Design Labs Rene van Leuken Delft University of Technology t.g.r.m.vanleuken@tudelft.nl With acknowledgements to the DL partners for their contributions! NIRICT Strategiedag, Utrecht, 12 Feb. 2009

  2. NIRICT Design Labs • Goal:Provide a design environment to allow universities and companies/institutes to design and realize heterogeneous systems (dependable embedded systems, sensors, intelligent signal processing components, low power radio) • Branch coordinators: • Henk Corporaal (TUE) • Hans Kerkhoff (UTwente) • Rene van Leuken (TUD)

  3. TUDelft Design Lab • Focus: • Dependable, re-programmable, semi– and full custom Systems-on-Chip (SoC) designs • Heterogeneous designs that integrate sensors, radios, and signal processing into embedded systems • Design platform (software tool for knowledge capture and dissemination--enables cooperation among the various partners)

  4. TUDelft Design Lab • Staff: • Scientific director: Alle-Jan van der Veen (in future: Edoardo Charbon) • Executive director: Rene van Leuken • Senior designer*: Alexander de Graaf (Oct’07) • Post-doc*: Hyung-June Yoon(May’09) • *: funded by NIRICT

  5. TUDelft Design Lab • Involved groups: • Circuits and Systems (CAS): Charbon, Van Leuken • Electronics (ELCA): Long, Serdijn, Verhoeven, De Vreede • Elec. Instrumentation (EI): French, Makinwa • Elec. Materials Components (ECTM): Sarro • Computer Eng. (CE): Wong, Gaydadjiev • Aim is at further extension in the direction of ICT groups (e.g., Software Eng., Embedded Systems), e.g. projects on sensor networks

  6. TUDelft Design Lab • Lab facilities: • Lab units (5) available from September 2008: VLSI test+assembly lab, FPGA lab, optical and biolab • Design platform (software/beta version) • Basic equipment: design stations, power supplies, scopes, multi-meters, … Design Platform FPGA Boards Semi Custom Design

  7. TUDelft Design Lab • Current projects: • Fusion-1:Interchip proximity communication (CAS, EPFL, ST, NIRICT) • Biochip designs, e.g. DNA probing, retina (CAS) • Beyond Dreams: high-level heterogeneous specification and model design (CAS/Point-One) • TSMC semi-custom design flow expertise (90nm) (NIRICT/CAS)

  8. TUE Design Lab Currently involved groups: • EE-SPS, EE-ES, EE-ECO, CWTe Facilities: Laboratory at Laplace • In preparation; approx. 30 work places • Integrates Design Technology Lab and Smart Environment Lab • Staff: • One technician

  9. TUE Design Lab Goals: • Supply HW / SW infrastructure for dependable embedded system design • Playground for students (education and research) • Prototyping for internal and external parties • Advance the state-of-the-art in design of dependable architectures and platforms

  10. TUE Design Lab Infrastructure plans: • Wireless Sensor network • Smart Vision network • FPGA and other prototyping platforms • Application focus: • Networked connected digital systems • Interpret data to support people in daily life • Well-being, safety, health, entertainment, etc.

  11. UTwente Design Lab Currently involved groups: • Computer Architecture of Embedded Systems (CAES) • Control Engineering (CE) • Integrated Circuit Design (ICD) • Short Range Radio (SRR). HL & UHD positions filled-in. Facilities: Distributed laboratory • First hardware and software purchases • Used in dependability projects and 3TU M.Sc. ES courses

  12. UTwente Design Lab Staff and Organization • Clusters all HW and SW on dependability at UT • Involved chairs: CAES, ICD, SRR • Hiring a postdoc (Sept’09) for joint projects in dependability. Initial research proposal available. • Monthly meetings / presentations • FP7 Ph.D. dependability (CRISP, CAES) • 3TU-ICTO: 3-LEP (CE)

  13. UTwente Design Lab Strategic Research Orientation Dependability (CTIT) Future plans: • Ph.D.s dependability (STARS?, EuReCon?) • Joint CAES-CE proposal • Joint STW proposal on dependability (CAES, ICD, SRR)

  14. NIRICT Design Lab: Strategy Bring competencies together, define comprehensive projects with an ambitious scope (over multiple groups) with a longer time span Continuity of expertise: Cluster and standardize design tools, flows and hardware platforms Focus on key technologies Collect / archive / share design blocks created in these technologies (design platform) Outreach: Break down boundaries between universities and industry (e.g., joint projects, consultancy, open access) Stimulate SMEs to participate

  15. Proposed SRA’s SRA Heterogeneous VLSI System Design Heterogeneous electronic system specification, simulation, synthesis and realization SRA VLSI computing 3D multi-chip assembly, Multi Core VLSI design SRA VLSI sensors Biochip/Lab. on a Chip, Biomedical VLSI design SRA Broadband Communication UWB, Gbit, cognitive, sensor …. ICT should become ICT again !!!

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