Gerard J.M. Smit
Department of EEMCS
7500 AE Enschede
the
Phone : +31 53 4893734
Fax : +31 53 4894590
e-mail : G.J.M.Smit[at]utwente.nl
My name is Gerard Smit and I am full
professor in the chair Computer Architecture for Embedded Systems (CAES) at the
Research
The research addresses the
architecture and design of low-power hand-held multimedia systems, with
particular emphasis on energy conservation. The technologies of PDA, wireless
networking and smart card, when combined and integrated well, have the
potential of replacing all of the things people have to carry around by one
small device. The employment of such devices has several challenging
implications: it must provide multimedia functionality, operate in a very
dynamic wireless environment, and be secure because it contains personal
information and interacts with the - possibly hostile - environment. All these
capabilities have to be integrated in one small and light battery-operated
device, implying an ultra-low energy consumption and a
high performance. In this research a radical new approach is taken in order to
fulfill the requirements - in terms of processing power and energy consumption
- of future mobile applications. A primary goal of this research is to prove
that a heterogeneous reconfigurable systems
architecture in combination with a QoS driven
operating system provides a solution for flexible low-power handheld systems.
This research is supported by
· STW/Progress (Chameleon project),
· NWO (Gecko project),
· Freeband impulse (AWGN project),
· European Commission (4S project),
· Freeband AAF project,
· STW project A4
Courses
Computer Organisation
(for INF, EL and TEL students)
(213130)
BBDT (Fundamentals of Logic Design
for EL students) (213001)
HW/SW codesign (213012)
Embedded
Computer Architectures 1 (213024)
see
also my applets for DT and CO (applets)
Publications