Chair for Integrated Digital Systems

The place for innovation, education and collaboration in Integrated Digital Systems.

Team

Prof. Dr.-Ing. A. Garcia-Ortiz

Chair for Integrated Digital Systems

Since the 1st of April 2010, I hold the chair for Integrated Digital Systems at the University of Bremen. As full professor, my responsibilities cover all the aspects of research and teaching in this subject.

Kerstin Janssen

Foreign-language secretary

I am the person to contact for administrative and organisational issues. Being the contact point for the IDS, I support Prof. García-Ortiz and his team regarding staff-related queries as well as project-related topics.

Dr.-Ing. Wanli Yu

Guest lecturer

My research focuses on the following topics: Low-power embedded sensor networks, Internet of Things, machine learning, mobile edge/fog computing, distributed systems and computing, network performance optimization, energy aware task allocation and scheduling, convex optimization.

Dr.-Ing. Lennart Bamberg

Guest Lecturer

I am a Senior-Principal AI/ML Processor Architect and the head of the Advanced Computer Architecture Group at NXP Semiconductors in Hamburg, Germany. Since 2020, I am a Guest Lecturer at the University of Bremen responsible for classes on computer architectures and methodologies for efficient AI/ML on resource constrained devices.

Dr.-Ing. Ardalan Najafi

Guest Lecturer

I am a Senior AI/ML Processor Architect and working since December 2023 at NXP Semiconductors in Hamburg, Germany. I am also closely collaborating with universities, particularly as a Guest Lecturer at the University of Bremen in the domain of hardware and artificial intelligence.

Jinming Sun

Scientific Assistant/Ph.D. Candidate

My research focuses on System Identification, Dynamical Systems and Machine Learning methods.

Sebastian Fischer

Scientific Assistant/Ph.D. Candidate

My research focuses on interconnect architectures for monolithic 3D archirectures.

Lars Kleditsch

Laboratory technician

My main responsibilities are:

  • Development, set-up and test of electronic prototyping systems.
  • Programming embedded real-time systems in C / CPP and VHDL.
  • Administration of the laboratories as well as the advice of employees and students.

Michael Peeper

Laboratory technician

My main responsibility is the development, organization and operation of ITEM's IT infrastructure. I am supporting the groups and students on the topics of IT systems and computer technology.

Peter Lutzen

Laboratory technician

I contribute to the development, organization and operation of ITEM's IT infrastructure. I am supporting the groups and students on topics of hardware a and the use of existing software application.

Former staff:

Dr.-Ing. Amir Najafi

Scientific Assistant/Post-Doc

My research focuses on power reduction techniques in nanometric interconnects using stochastic approaches.

Robert Schmidt

Scientific Assistant

My research is directed towards the advancement of dependability enhancement techniques and tools, currently spanning the topics of low-power single event effect mitigation as well as error detection and failure prediction for graceful degrading multiprocessor systems.

Yanqiu Huang

Scientific Assistant/Postdoc

My research focuses on the following topics:

  • Energy efficient algorithms for internet of things (IoT) nodes
  • Cross layer optimization of wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
  • Disaster management with WSNs

Partners

We have numerous collaborations with national and international research groups, as for example:

Hardware-Oriented Technical Computer Science at University of Magdeburg
Real-Time Systems Research Group at University of York
ADAptive Computing group at LIRMM
Department for Integrated Circuit and System Design at University Linz
Group of Computer Architecture at University of Bremen
Bremer Institut für Angewandte Strahltechnik
Institute of Microelectronic Systems at the U. Hannover

Organized conferences

As part of our commitment with the dissemination of scientific results and the collaboration with other institutions, IDS has been actively involved in the organization of several major conferences and workshops. Among them, we have organized PATMOS, VARI, RECOSOC, and MOCAST where Prof. A. Garcia-Ortiz was general chair. He also served as general chair of the TOP2 of EOSAM in 2012 and as program chair of ISCAS in 2021.

MOCAST 2022

11th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)

The International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST) on Electronics and Communications aims to bring together leading academic and industrial scientists and researchers to exchange and share their knowledge and experiences about all aspects of Circuits and Systems. It also provides a forum for exchanging ideas, discussing research results, and presenting practical applications in the areas of modeling, design, simulation, synthesis and implementation of Circuits and Systems. It provides an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary forum for researchers, engineers and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted in these fields.

MOCAST 2020

9th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)

The International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST) on Electronics and Communications aims to bring together leading academic and industrial scientists and researchers to exchange and share their knowledge and experiences about all aspects of Circuits and Systems. It also provides a forum for exchanging ideas, discussing research results, and presenting practical applications in the areas of modeling, design, simulation, synthesis and implementation of Circuits and Systems. It provides an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary forum for researchers, engineers and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted in these fields.

PATMOS 2016

26th International Symposium on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation

The PATMOS 2016 objective is to provide a forum to discuss and investigate emerging challenges in methodologies and tools for the design of upcoming generations of integrated circuits and systems, including reconfigurable hardware such as FPGAs. The technical program focuses on timing, performance and power consumption as well as architectural aspects with particular emphasis on modeling, design, characterization, analysis and optimization.

VARI 2016

7th International Workshop on CMOS Variability

VARI 2016, collocated with PATMOS, is the 7th European Workshop on CMOS Variability. The increasing variability in CMOS transistor characteristics, as well as its sensitivity to environmental variations has become a major challenge to scaling and integration. This leads to major changes in the way that future integrated circuits and systems are designed. S

RECOSOC 2015

10th International Symposium on Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip

Over the past decade ReCoSoC has established itself as a international reference event for research in the areas of reconfigurable and communication-centric systems-on-chip. Its informal and dynamic philosophy encourages technical and scientific interactions of both academic and industrial participants through presentations and special sessions reporting latest advances in the related areas.

EOSAM 2012

European Optical Society Annual Meeting 2012: TOM 2-Silicon Photonics

Novel developments and applications in the field of silicon photonics and related areas, ranging from optical interconnects to sensing applications will revolutionize conventional microelectronics. Potential topics include, but are not limited to the design, simulation, modeling and fabrication of optical inter-connects (board to board, chip to chip or on chip), e.g. active optical cables (AOCs), optical on chip routing architectures, clock distribution and technologies as well as related design concepts for high speed, low power photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Also (CMOS-compatible) optical sources and detectors and the optimization of light emission and absorption for data processing using materials such as SiGe or III/Vs etc. will be discussed.