Tallinn University of Technology

The Research Centre focuses on cross-layer reliability and self-health awareness technology for tomorrow's complex intelligent autonomous systems and IoT edge devices in Estonia and EU. The team studies advanced cyber-physical systems characterized by their heterogeneity and the emerging computing architectures employing AI-based autonomy. The centre generates knowledge to equip engineers with design-phase solutions and in-field instruments for industry-scale systems to facilitate system’s crashless operation.

Core competences:
Hardware design
    VHDL and Verilog designs
    EDA tools (Cadence, Siemens, Synopsys platforms)
    Application-specific computing platforms (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)
FPGA-based solutions and methodologies
    FPGA SoCs (Zynq, CycloneV)
    EDA tools (Xilinx Vivado, Altera/Intel Quartus, Lattice Diamond)
Software and embedded SW development
    Bare-metal applications, bootloaders, Linux drivers and Userspace applications
    Petalinux, Yocto, FreeRTOS and embedded SDKs, ELDK
Cross-layer reliability and fault management
    ML-based solutions
    Functional Safety (ISO26262)
Test strategy development and troubleshooting instrumentation
    JTAG/IJTAG based solutions (standards IEEE-1149.1, IEEE-1149.6, IEEE-1687)

Head of the centre