Research areas

The research activities of the chair focus on novel architectures as well as circuit level concepts and design methodologies to implement energy and area efficient integrated circuits (‘chips’) in modern – so-called nanometer CMOS technologies. The novel strategies, concepts and methodologies are developed based on application examples in the general domain of high-throughput digital signal processing. Thereby, focal areas are biological as well as artificial neural networks, security and test & reliability. Fundamentally, they all evolve around a physically oriented design approach. The design complexity handled at the chair goes up to 200 Million transistors for a 28nm CMOS technology. An overview of the different research fields can be found on the left.