The Department of Digital Design at FIT CTU organized the international research meeting Prague Embedded Systems Workshop (PESW 2023) from 29 June to 1 July 2023. The event was held under the auspices of the faculty and in cooperation with the Digital Design and Dependability research group. Doctoral students presented results and progress in their research in all aspects of embedded systems design, testing and applications. The event included lectures by eminent experts and a competition for the best bachelor’s and master’s thesis.
The conference, which 38 people attended, traditionally focused mainly on reliable and low-energy embedded systems designs. Doctoral students from various universities had the opportunity to present their research results. The event offered, among other things, a special session on network security, which the Network Traffic Monitoring Laboratory covered.
The conference also included an annual final thesis competition, organized as a student poster session with the support of the IEEE international organization and sponsoring companies from the industry. Every year, the main goal of PESW 2023 is to provide students with feedback on their theses and to help young scientists present their research results. Seven students attended the competition, three with bachelor’s theses and four with master’s ones defended this or last year.
The first place went to Bc. Martin Stahl from FIT CTU and his master’s thesis named Design of a system-on-chip with RISC-V processor for USI graphical pen controller. The second place was awarded to Adam Staes from FIT CTU and his bachelor’s thesis named Camera device for remote space monitoring using ESP32-CAM and SIM800L modules. Robert Kunzelmann from the Technical University of Munich took third place with his master’s thesis named Modeling advanced CPU pipeline features for fast and accurate performance simulation of a RISC-V microprocessor.
“My thesis concerns the design of a system-on-chip for the control circuit of a RISC-V processor-based graphics pen. I designed this system, its implementation in RTL, FPGA validation and then physical implementation in 180nm technology. I used these suggestions to simulate the theoretical power consumption of the system,” said on his thesis Ing. Martin Stahl, winner of the student competition, adding: “It was fascinating to have the opportunity to present my thesis to international industry experts and get their feedback. It was definitely a great opportunity.”
Lectures by eminent experts from universities and industry were integral to the conference. Participants had the opportunity to listen to a unique talk by Dr. Fabian Vargas from the Leibniz Institute, Germany. Prof. Vargas, a world expert in designing and testing HW and SW systems-on-chip for real-time embedded applications, spoke on the resilient RISC-V processor for aerospace applications. Among the speakers were also doctoral students Ing. Jaroslav Pešek, Tomáš Přeučil, MSc., and Ing. David Pokorný and their supervisors Ing. Tomáš Čejka, Ph.D., and Dr.-Ing. Martin Novotný from the Department of Digital Design at FIT CTU.
“This year’s edition of this important conference was in the spirit of original scientific contributions. Their authors received inspiring reviews of their papers, and their presentations were accompanied by constructive discussions that will help them in their further scientific work. I am convinced that this meeting was beneficial not only for the authors of the papers but also for the conference participants,” summarized the event prof. Ing. Hana Kubátová, CSc., head of the Department of Digital Design and co-chair of the PESW 2023 conference.
