REDS Institute: Applied Research and Development

The Reconfigurable & Embedded Digital Systems (REDS) institute, which is attached to the Department of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) of the HEIG-VD, has strong R&D expertise in high-performance embedded systems.

 

The activities of the Institute rely on three strategical axes:

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In these domains, the Institute has achieved numerous marking realizations based on industrial contracts, and national or European projects.
The following examples can be quoted for 2012:
  • The development of a 24-layers board including 32 high-speed 10 Gigabits/s serial lines connected to optical transceivers
  • A multi-OS virtualization platform
  • A reconfigurable radio communication system
  • A multi-sensor platform for geological monitoring
  • A reconfigurable embedded platform for training and research



REDS in pictures

REDS booklet

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News

FPGA

by Elena Mata | Jul 09, 2014
2014: FPGA revolution
Finally FPGAs are reaching the mainstream data centers. On the 16th of June Microsoft presented their solution with FPGAs embedded in 1620 of their Bing servers: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=212001

And on the 18th of June (so two days after), Intel announced their future chip embedding a Xeon and an FPGA. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/18/intel_fpga_custom_chip/

Their clients: data centers.

So now FPGAs are ready to enter the search engines/data centers world, allowing energy saving (see the Microsoft paper: 2x the throughput for 10% energy increase) and performance improvement.

This adventure promises to be exciting!!

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