Research activities

Research interests

My research interests center around the design of dedicated digital systems for complex and demanding embedded applications.

I'm particularly interested in three areas:

  1. Design of self-adaptive digital systems;
  2. FPGA-based reconfigurable computing;
  3. Hardware acceleration of embedded systems.
Some concrete research topics are:
  1. Dynamic reconfiguration of FPGAs;
  2. Generation of FPGA configurations at run-time;
  3. Fast physical synthesis for digital circuits;
  4. Virtual programmable hardware architectures;
  5. Transparent task migration from software→hardware.

If you interested in these or similar subjects, just get in touch!

Projects

This is a (not really up-to-date) list of research projects I've been involved with. More information is available at this project list.

  1. CONTEXWA - Middleware and Context Inference Techniques for Data-Streams for the Development of Context-Aware Servics using Mobile Devices [PDTC/EEI-SCR/6945/2014]
  2. nanoSTIMA
  3. ANTAREX - AutoTuning and Adaptivity appRoach for Energy efficient eXascale HPC systems (2015-2018) Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement No 671623.
  4. SCREEN (2015-2016)
  5. CReATION - Cognitive Radio Tranceiver Design for Energy Efficient Data Transmission (2013-2016) FCT project EXCL/EEI-TEL/0067/2012
  6. REFLECT - Rendering FPGAs to Multi-Core Embedded Computing (2010-2012) [FP7-ICT-2009-4]
  7. PROLIMB - Electronic Sensing for the Prophylaxis of Lower Limb Pathologies (2010-2013) [PTDC/EEA-ELC/103683/2008].
  8. DR-VidS - Dynamic management of reconfigurable logic resources for real-time foreground/background video segmentation (2007-2010) PTDC/EEA-ELC/69394/2006 (PI)
  9. RAMTEDRA - Run-Time Adaptive Mapping Techniques for Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures, bi-lateral cooperation project with the University of Karlsruhe/KIT (2010-2011)
  10. POSC/EEA-ESE/58513/2004 (2005-2007) Custom Computing Architectures for Computational Fluid Dynamics.
  11. AUTOMARC (1998): Criação Automática de Marcadas para a Indústria das Confecções
  12. OPTHAR (1997-2000): Planeamento do Corte de Matéria-prima em Peças Irregulares: Optimização com Hardware Dedicado (PRAXIS XXI project: 2/2.1/TPAR/2076/95)
  13. ARTEMIS (1992-1996): Advanced Research on Test and Evaluation of Mixed-Signal ICs and Systems (ESPRIT III project n. 6138)
  14. BST (1989-1992): Research into Boundary-Scan Implementation (ESPRIT II project n. 2478

Publications

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Last modification: 15 January 2023
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