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)