18103 Department of Digital Design

Department of Digital Design focuses on the design of processors, embedded controllers and computer communication systems; development of software for special-purpose digital devices and for controlling their user or machine interfaces; design of algorithms implemented at the boundary of hardware and software (HW/SW codesign) and optimized according to specific requirements (die size, operating frequency, power consumption, speed, rapid design). Digital design also includes the use of appropriate formal models (e.g. Petri nets), modeling, emulation, simulation and verification. Members of the department strive to participate in grants and research projects aimed at the development of reliable FPGA-based and SoC-based systems, diagnostics, on-line and off-line testing and its optimization, and design and implementation of modern architectures for processors and crypto hardware. Reasearch groups Digital Design Research Group

Department of Digital Design teaches the following mandatory modules: Computer Structure and Architecture (BIE-SAP), Digital and Analog Circuits (BIE-CAO). The department also teaches the following Computer Engineering modules: Computer Units (BIE-JPO), Embedded Systems (BIE-VES), Practical Digital Design (BIE-PNO) and Real-time Systems (BI-SRC). For its research and teaching activities, the department manages and maintains a hardware laboratory that is equipped with modern design, simulation and modeling tools and up-to-date hardware design kits.