ARCAD

ARCAD is a pluridisciplinary team in electrical and computer engineering composed of members from the several institutions (by alphabetical order) : CNRS, ENSTA Bretagne, IMT Atlantique, Université de Bretagne Occidentale et Université Bretagne Sud. Geographically, about half of the team is located in Brest on ENSTA, IMT and UBO sites; the other half are in Lorient on UBS site.

The main scientific topics in the ARCAD team include:

• hardware architectures:
  
  • analog/digital functions, computation units, IP blocks
  • accelerators, special purpose processors
  • reconfigurables architectures: CGRA, special purpose, virtual
  • parallel architectures
  • secure architectures, protections against logical and physical attacks
• tools and software support:
  • special purpose CAD tools: synthesis, P&R, operator/circuit generation
  • high-level synthesis
  • low-level libraries for our architectures
• for objectives in:
  • high performances
  • low energy consumption
  • high security (resistance to attacks) et reliability (resistance to fauts)
  • low cost (small silicon area and flexibility by reconfiguration)