Investigación

 

Director:
Prof. Dr. D. Álvaro Bustinduy Candelas

abustind@nebrija.es

Campus de
la Dehesa de la Villa
C/Pirineos 55
28040 – Madrid
 
La OTRI participa en la Red OTRI de Universidades y colabora con sus homónimas de las Universidades de Madrid, gracias al Programa Madri+d de la Dirección General de Investigación de la Comunidad de Madrid.
 




Spanish/English

 

Director: Dr. Juan Antonio Maestro de la Cuerda

Members:

Dr. Juan Antonio Maestro de la Cuerda
Dr. Pedro Reviriego Vasallo
Dr. Alfonso Sánchez-Macián
Oscar Ruano Ramos
Shih-Fu Liu

Research lines:

1.- Radiation effects on digital devices within hostile environments.
Nowadays, the design of digital circuits is based on very well-known methodologies. However, when these circuits face extreme work conditions, their reliability is clearly diminished. Thus, systems embarked in satellites or spaceships usually present wrong behaviors due to the lack of gravity or radiation exposure. In this environment, an analytical study of the LEON2 system, used by the European Space Agency (ESA) in its missions, is proposed. Fault simulation and behavioral analysis are some of the tasks that will be performed.
The following problems will be addressed:
• Simulation of cosmic radiation on design platforms (Modelsim).
• Study of fault tolerance on digital systems used by the ESA under radiation exposure.
• New fault-tolerant design techniques within the aerospace environment.

More information and collaboration proposals: jmaestro@nebrija.es

2.- Optimization techniques for Hardware/Software Codesign.
Given a circuit specification in a hardware description language, carrying out the granularity selection, the performance and area estimation for each task and the hardware-software partitioning implies complex processes subject to strong optimization. The integration of commercial High Level Synthesis and Codesign platforms with optimization algorithms adds two main advantages to this process: cost reduction when implementing the hardware subsystem and time-to-market decrease in the production environment.
The following problems will be addressed:

• Study and model of fast performance and area estimation algorithms.
• Integration of the suggested algorithms with commercial design platforms.
• Application of the suggested algorithms to reconfigurable hardware platforms.

More information and collaboration proposals: jmaestro@nebrija.es

Research applications:Applications will appear in three different fields:

1.- Quality assurance of the IP cores most frequently used by the European Space Agency.
2.- Implementation of fault-tolerant design processes for different environments under radiation exposure (aerospace, biomedical, military, etc.).
3.- Improvement of commercial High-Level Synthesis and Co-Synthesis platforms using fast hardware-software estimation algorithms.