Computer Engineering

Luca Carloni on the coming engineering renaissance in chip design

What the migration from homogeneous multicore architectures to heterogeneous multicore system-on-chip platforms means for engineering, and for teaching

Voices of CS: Maico Cassel dos Santos

The fourth-year PhD student is trying to democratize chip-making with a system that even non-experts can use.

Specialized hardware for meeting demands of big data

Research into accelerators and domain-specific processors—among other innovations—is resulting in faster data processing at less power.

About

Computer Engineering is where the study of hardware and software interfaces come together. It draws on techniques from Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to imagine and realize the next generation of devices and chips.

The group researches the platforms that power all forms of computation – from IoT to mobile, data centers to supercomputers. Students learn how to design, create, and test software, hardware, and system designs for applications in business, industry, and government.

The various research groups collaborate in diverse areas including computer architecture, hardware security, networks, and distributed embedded systems.