RWTH Aachen University

RWTH Aachen University, Germany, is an internationally top-ranked technical university with more than 30,000 students and is a member of the IDEA league. Its Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems (ICE), being part of the RWTH Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is headed by Prof. R. Leupers, Prof. G. Ascheid, and Prof. A. Chattopadhyay. ICE performs research and development in different areas of embedded system design technology, especially covering algorithms, architectures, and tools for wireless communication systems. ICE maintains tight cooperations with semiconductor vendors, system houses, and EDA companies, and frequently provides industrial consulting services. ICE receives funds from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinsschaft (DFG), e.g. via the Excellence Cluster UMIC (Ultra High Speed Mobile Information and Communication), a large scale next-generation mobile internet research program. Further funding is received from EU projects like EURETILE, 2PARMA, HiPEAC, ARTIST, and NEWCOM, as well as from industry partners like Nokia, Ericsson, Synopsys, ACE, and Huawei Technologies. Many R&D projects at ICE have contributed to the development of industrial products. Moreover, several successful EDA spin-off companies originated from ICE, e.g. Cadis (acquired by Synopsys), Axys (acquired by ARM), and LISATek (acquired by CoWare, now with Synopsys).