
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.

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