ITEC - Institute of Computer Engineering

The Chair of Operating Systems focuses on the design, implementation, and analysis of system software that interacts directly with hardware.
Besides questions of security, execution and energy efficiency of operating systems, the analysis of runtime effects of specialized hardware accelerators, as well as the exploration of new methods for fair sharing of resources are in the focus of the work.

The Chair of Embedded Systems (CES) is concerned with the design, optimization, and architectures of the next generations of embedded systems, with special emphasis on ubiquitous system properties. In this context, performance as well as power consumption and their tradeoff are of crucial importance. Reliability plays a key role with respect to future technology generations, as does runtime adaptivity.

The area of computer architecture and parallel programming (CAPP) deals with the design and organization of innovative computer structures with regard to future multicore and manycore processors for high-performance computing systems and embedded systems. The work deals with methods and tools for the efficient programming of system structures with chip multiprocessors and the design of dynamically reconfigurable processor architectures.

Research and teaching activities in Dependable Nano Computing (CDNC) focus mainly on "test" and "reliability" in VLSI and in nanosystems. Current research topics are: Nanocomputing; Development and Test Automation; Fault and Fault Tolerance in Emerging Nanotechnologies; Dependable Computing; Fault and Fault Tolerant Computing; Systems Biology, Analysis of Complex Molecular Pathways in Human Disease.