Department of Computer Systems

Scientific and research activities of the Department are focused on architecture of hardware and software of embedded systems, specification and design of computer-based systems, reconfigurable systems, adaptive systems, diagnostics and testing of digital systems and bioinspired computer systems. The main areas of interest are the following:

• Application-specific architectures (high-performance embedded systems, multiprocessor systems on a chip, parallel performance prediction and tuning),
• FPGA-based reconfigurable architectures (with applications in gigabite networks, bioinformatics etc.),
• diagnostics, testability, and safety of digital systems,
• bioinspired hardware and
• applied evolutionary algorithms.

The lectures in most of the courses are supplemented with projects or laboratory sessions, where students acquire hands-on experience and skills with the latest software packages and hardware units (workstations, multiprocessor systems, workstation clusters, RT OS, design systems for FPGA and the like), learn basics of a teamwork and project management. For the most demanding projects IBM BladeServer clusters are used.

Seminar of the Department of Computer Systems is organized every Friday at 1PM in L321. See program.

Research Areas

• Accelerated Network Technologies Research Group
• Applied Evolutionary Algorithms Research Group
• Computer Architecture Research Group
• Diagnostics Research Group
• Evolvable Hardware Research Group
• Reconfigurable Architecture Research Group