Chair: CAES
Introduction
In recent years, energy-efficiency was the main research focus of the CAES group. This direction started before 2005 with energy-efficient processing and communication sub-systems for battery-powered embedded systems, such as mobile phones and wireless sensor networks. This has been extended to streaming applications in the high-performance high-tech domain (e.g. phased array antenna systems, medical image processing and signal processing on board of satellites) and ICT for energy management of systems such as smart grids. The three main research themes are:
- Efficient architectures and tools for streaming applications
- Dependable embedded systems
- ICT for energy management in buildings and smart grids.
Programme mentor
Compulsory courses
Code | Course | Study load (EC) | Quarter |
System-on-Chip Design | 10 | 1A, 1B | |
Embedded Computer Architectures 1 | 5 | 1A | |
Perspectives on Engineering Design | 2,5 | 1B | |
Philosophy of Engineering: Ethics | 2,5 | 1B |
One additional compulsory course will be chosen by the programme mentor from the following list, after discussion with the student:
Code | Course | Study load (EC) | Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|
Real-time systems 1 | 5 | 2A | |
Dependable computing systems | 5 | 2B |
Note
The course 201800127 Security in Embedded Hardware will be discontinued. Therefore, starting next year the set of compulsory courses will be adapted, as in the table above.
Interesting electives for Dependable Integrated Systems
Within the specialisation two themes can be distinguished:
- Hardware/Software
- Analog/digital
Depending on the theme you may consider the following electives:
Hardware/Software
Code | Course | Study load (EC) | Quarter |
Systems engineering | 5 | 1A | |
Embedded Computer Architectures 2 | 5 | 1B | |
Quantitative Evaluation of Embedded Systems | 5 | 1B | |
Real Time Software Development This course is offered one last time in the academic year 22-23 for those who need to re-take the exam. All others: please refer to the new course 202200109 Advanced Software Development for Robotics, which is in 2A. | 5 | 1B | |
Implementation of Digital Signal Processing | 5 | 2A | |
Embedded Systems Lab | 5 | 2B | |
Real Time Systems 2 | 5 | 2B |
Analog/digital
Code | Course | Study load (EC) | Quarter |
Embedded Computer Architectures 2 | 5 | 1B | |
Implementation of Digital Signal Processing | 5 | 2A | |
Advanced Multiple Antenna Radio Systems | 5 | 2B | |
Embedded Systems Lab | 5 | 2B | |
Wireless Transceiver Electronics | 5 | 2B | |
A/D Converters | 5 | 2B |
Note
“Students who have completed a Bachelor’s degree programme without sufficient programming, e.g. bachelor UT students that did not complete the module network systems (201600197), are required to include the following course in the master’s programme:
Code | Course | Study load (EC) | Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|
Programming 2 (for BME) This course is offered one last time in the academic year 22-23 for those who need to re-take the exam. All others: please refer to the new course 202200108 Software Development for Robotics. | 5 | 2A |