Smaller and faster systems

Today’s rapid developments within IT are placing increasingly stringent demands on the technology being used. For example, the operational speed of internal electronic circuits is becoming more and more important. To increase these speeds, smaller and extraordinarily fast transistors have to be installed in each circuit, using parallel computer systems. This strategy can be seen at chip level, too.

Computer architectures may also be improved to achieve higher efficiency. This is very much a question of the art of designing computers with focus on the interface between hardware and software. Radio technology and large distributed systems, as well as formal methods for software development, are two more active areas of our research and training effort. This aims at creating a technological foundation for designing distributed software systems that could be used in different kinds of computers – from workstations to handheld devices.