«Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.»
Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 193–206

Università della Svizzera italiana

USI-ALaRI (Advanced Learning and Research Institute) is an institute of Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland), established in 1999 with the mission of promoting research and education in Embedded Systems Design. USI-ALARI was created as a joint initiative of a number of Universities, Research Centers and Companies. The main areas of the current research activities at USI-ALARI are: co-design and optimization of pervasive systems, design of optimized hardware cryptographic devices, robustness analysis of cryptographic algorithms, design of hardware and software solutions robust to power analysis attacks; power modeling and optimization of wireless systems; high-level services for on-chip communication (QoS, security, power management, fault tolerance, etc.); multiprocessor reconfigurability.

Contact person: Mariagiovanna Sami
Website: http://www.alari.ch