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The institute "Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab (ICS)" is dedicated to research and teaching in the area of embedded systems design and non-standard computer architectures. Originally oriented towards the investigation of design methods of digital hardware components, the area of interest has shifted over the years to issues related to the cooperation of software for programmable standard processors and application specific hardware components, which now make today's efficient systems in information processing possible. Particular emphasis is placed upon embedded systems, which provide the information processing in superordinated interdisciplinary systems (e.g., robots, automotive and avionic transportation means, or cellular phone systems). In contrast to standard applications on off-the-shelf computers (e.g., Windows/Intel personal computers) such tasks must be realized under strict restrictions with respect to execution time as in real time systems, to dependability and safety, and under stringent non-functional constraints regarding, e. g., memory requirements or power consumption, as present in control units for the powertrain in automobiles. (more about research...)

News

Best Paper Award

Dr. Abdulhadi Shoufan and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sorin A. Huss were awarded one of three Best Paper Awards on the conference "Sicherheit 2008" for their contribution "Schlüsselverwaltung im sicheren Multicast" engl.: Group Key Management in Secure Multicast. This conference, which is organized by the "Gesellschaft für Informatik GI" presents the most renowned security congress in the german-speaking contries.

Book Publication - Key Management for Secure Multicast

In july 2007 the book High Performance Group Key Management by Abdulhadi Shoufan has been published at VDM Verlag Dr. Müller.

Best Support-In-Lectures Award

During the "Tag der Informatik" on 13.07.2007 the student council awarded a member of our staff, Tim Sander, for the best student support in "Technische Grundlagen der Informatik I (WS2006/2007)". Thank you very much!

FDL 2006 - Book Publication

In cooperation with the "Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab" Springer recently published Advances in Design and Specification Languages for Embedded Systems. The book contains selected publications from the Forum on Specification & Design Languages (FDL) which took place in Darmstadt in 2006.