CENTER FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
A NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center
Overview
Spyros Tragoudas, PhD
SIUC site Director
University of Patras, June 20, 2012
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The Center for Embedded Systems (CES)
University partners
was established in March 2009 by the
National Science Foundation as an
Industry/University partnership dedicated
to developing a globally recognized center
Director: Spyros Tragoudas
for embedded computing system
technologies.
Member companies
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Director: Sarma Vrudhula
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Research areas
Design, validation, test of embedded
– Architectures/processors
– Circuits
– Sensors
– Networked components & cyber-physical systems
– MEMS
Embedded systems for
– Communications
– Control
– Image processing
Applications in
– Agriculture, Biomedicine, Civil & Environmental, Mining
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Areas of Expertise
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 performance, 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
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Areas of Expertise
• Embedded Multicore Architectures and Programming
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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
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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
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Areas of Expertise
• 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
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IUCRC Operation
Project Proposals
– Typical duration: 1 or 2 years
Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) & Project Funding
– Member companies either through SIUC or ASU
– Each member company is represented at the IAB
– Membership fees are used to fund projects
– IAB recommends proposals in late May (@ SIUC site)
– Site director initiates projects in June
– Projects start in August
– IAB & NSF reviews projects in January (@ASU site)
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Benefits of Membership
• Industry-Relevant Research Projects
• Participate in timely research in embedded systems
• Conduct pre-competitive or exploratory research in an efficient, costeffective 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
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Benefits of Membership
• 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
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Member companies at the SIUC site
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Member companies (Year 3)
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Intel – Circuit Labs (OR) & Ultra Mobility Systems (CA)
Rockwell Collins (IA)
Caterpillar (IL)
General Dynamics (IL)
Hamilton Sundstrand (IL)
Dickey-john /TSI (MN)
EMAC (IL)
 ASU site
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Raytheon (AZ)
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Intel (AZ)
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Qualcomm (CA)
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Toyota (CA)
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Marvell (AZ)
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Project information for the SIUC site
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Students involved at SIUC site – Year 3
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Proposal presentations – SIUC site
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Number of Proposals
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Year 1 (9/09, Tempe)
Year 2 (6/10, Tempe) &
mid-cycle (11/10,
O'Fallon)
Year 3 (6/11, O'Fallon)
Year 4 (6/12, O'Fallon)
Year 3 at SIUC: 18 presented, 11 selected
Year 4 at SIUC: 16 submitted, 14 presented for selection
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