Research Topics

The main research objectives of the Cairn group are concerning new reconfigurable platforms, compiler and synthesis tools related to these platforms, and algorithm architecture interaction.

Reconfigurable and Specialized Architecture Design

• • Reconfigurable architecture design and management
  • Ultra-low power architectures
  • Computer arithmetic
  • Hardware and software for cryptography and security

Compilation and Synthesis for Reconfigurable Platforms 

• • Polyhedral loop transformations

  • Reconfigurable processor extension generation

  • Dynamic fault-tolerant mapping and scheduling on multi-core systems
  • Floating-point to fixed-point automatic conversion
  • Design methodologies for Software Defined Radio

Interaction between Algorithms and Architectures

• • Optical communications
  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Cooperative protocols for WSNs

Activity reports

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