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Panel 16 – systems science
5.5.2 Collaboration
Grade: Very good
A strong point of the group is the close collaboration with industry. The
last ten years this was organized via the VINNOVA Competence Centre
for Circuit Design. Also the visiting professors are instrumental in the
close collaboration with industry. With the start of the new VINNOVA
Industrial Excellence Center for System Design on Silicon the continued
interaction with industry is guaranteed.
The group has also an extensive collaboration with other groups and
departments, for example with the physics department on the topic of
nanomaterials for low-power circuits, with the communication group on
the topic of circuits for communications and with the biomedical signal
processing group on low power signal processing in implantable devices.
The group is member of the HERMES partnership, a network of leading
European independent telecom research centers in Europe. The group is
also effective in attracting national and European funded projects.
5.5.3 Evaluation of future plans, potentials, and possibilities
Grade: Good
The plans for the future are only vaguely described. They center around
three topics: CMOS circuits with low static power consumption, efficient
architectures for new wireless systems and nanotechnology in CMOS
implementations. All three topics are highly relevant, although the third
is more speculative, and offer good opportunities for relevant research
contributions. Several on-going activities (digital image processing
architectures, reconfigurable computing, digital holographic imaging,
asynchronous custom DSP, and digital information systems and knowledge
architectures) have no relation with these three topics. It should be
beneficial to fade these unrelated activities.
5.6 Group Communications
5.6.1 Research quality
Grade: Excellent
The communication group has 22 members, 4 professors, 1 assistant professor,
3 associate professors, 2 lecturers, 3 post-docs, and 9 PhD students.
Compared to the staff, the number of PhD students is relatively low.
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