PhD

Smart Systems and Energy Technology

• DNA analysis with a nanopore
• Reconfigurable biosensor arrays
• 3D-SOC integration by stacking heterogeneous IC technologies
• Technology aware design research
• Analog and RF circuit design for 45nm CMOS Cognitive Radio t
• CMOS design for mm-wave applications
• Cognitive radio processor architecture and platform
• Cognitive radio functionality
• Miniaturized Hyperspectral Vision System for the Embedded Do
• Multi-View Video
• Run-time resource management for dynamic Embedded Software
• Solar Cell Technology
• Organic electronics
• Wireless autonomous transducer solutions
• Ultra-high frequency communication with thin-film oxide elec

Run-time resource management for dynamic Embedded Software

Runtime resource management is the key to address the increasing dynamism in software for embedded devices. A runtime resource manager is responsible for mapping resource requests from applications to the actual underlying platform. It exploits hardware and software metadata that is either specified at design time or gathered at runtime and takes user or application preferences into account. Runtime resource management also is a solution for the development of heterogeneous distributed systems where it takes, amongst others, network bandwidth and throughput into account to decide on what node to run tasks. The context sketched above allows for various research topics to be carried out, including (but not limited to) research on how to build customized runtime environments that take advantage of hardware features while reusing as much as possible general components and fast but intelligent resource mapping strategies on a node or on the network.

Responsible scientists: Roel Wuyts, Rudi Lauwereins