KEY AREAS OF FOCUS:

1.    Wireless communications

2.   Tools and architecture design

3.   Power management

4.   Applications

PROJECTS UNDER EHS I PROGRAMME: 

• Blind Channel Estimation/Equalization and Source Separation for Reconfigurable Terminals

• Formal Design Techniques for Reactive Embedded Systems

• FLARES: Flexible Architecture for Embedded Systems

• Model Predictive Control (MPC) on a Chip

• MEMSWear – Incorporating MEMS Technology into Smart Shirt for Geriatric Healthcare

• Wearable e-Textile Microphone Array System – An Embedded Multi-discipline System (WeTMAS)

• Power Sensitive Techniques for High Productivity Embedded Systems

• Smart Laboratory Initiative

• The All-Terrain Advanced Network of Ubiquitous Mobile Asynchronous Systems

• Software Defined Radio System-on-Chip

• Integrated Embedded System Design

STRUCTURE:

COLLABORATION WITH OTHER PARTNERS:

Collaborations and partnerships have been forged between the PIs and institutions such as University of Sydney, SIMTech, NTU and NUS. There have also been collaborations with hospitals such as the Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

EHS I ACHIEVEMENTS:

CONFERENCES & EVENTS:

• Co-organiser of Digital Convergence Symposium (as part of Global Entropolis)

–   12 Oct 2004 - PIs showcased research outcome

–   140 participants, 60 from the industry and another 60 to 70 from    the research institutes and universities

• Two international conferences organized by EHS PIs in 2005:

–   IEHSC 2005 (International Embedded and Hybrid Systems Conference), May 2005 (PI: A/P Francis Tay), representations from 15 countries, 61 abstracts received and 40 accepted and published.

-  2005 IEEE Conference on Field Programmable Technology (ICFPT),     December 2005 (PI: A/P Wong Weng Fai), representations from 14 countries, 143 papers received, 32 accepted as full papers and 30 accepted as posters

• SERC presented on the EHS programme at the biannual conference on technology - an invitation by the Netherlands government.