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

Leiden University

The Leiden Embedded Research Center (LERC) at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University (UL) is an expert group and an internationally recognized leader in advanced research in Embedded Systems and Software. The group covers two related topics in this rapidly evolving domain: 1) Embedded Systems theory and applications; 2) Embedded Systems Design – methods, techniques, CAD tools and tool-flows. LERC’s application domains are signal processing, multimedia, communications, smart cameras, computer vision, and graphics. The research at LERC deals with application models, platform/architecture models, and mapping models in these domains, at various levels of abstraction, for performance analysis, exploration and design, conceptually and practically, down to real platform/system implementations. The main mission of LERC is by its research to contribute in a highly innovative way to the system-level design of embedded systems and software – conceptually (theory), methodologically (design methods and tools), and structurally (platforms/architectures). Finally, LERC is advocating and applying state-of-the-art Software Engineering Techniques both in the way the group’s projects are integrated, documented, and assessed, and in the way CAD software tools are written, tested and assessed. All this justifies the LERC belief that “The CAD software is the Publication” that makes significant impact in the research and industrial community.

Contact person: Todor Stefanov
Website: http://www.liacs.nl