Research Topics

• Implementation of integrated analog, digital and mixed-signal VLSI circuits
• Statistical modelling of CMOS circuits
• Efficient simulation techniques for highly parallel and continuous-discrete systems
• Robust integrated systems

• Analysis of paradigms in neurobiological information processing
• Modeling and circuit design of neurobiological building blocks, e.g. neurons and synapses
• VLSI implementation of neural networks using CMOS technology
• Communication architectures for pulse-coupled neural networks

• Single-Chip CMOS camera
• Image sensor with highly parallel analogue signal preprocessing (VISP)
• Image sensors using sub-100nm CMOS processes

• Development of methods for processor array design
• Parallelization of algorithms using subword-parallel instructions (MMX, SSE, SSE2)
• Development of partitioning strategies for the design of dynamically reconfigurable systems