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Computer Engineering
Computer Systems
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Computer systems research includes the development of parallel high-performance architectures, reconfigurable systems, real-time operating systems and middleware, ubiquitous computing, wearable computers, and e-textiles. Applications of this work include secure communications, acceleration for bioinformatics, embedded systems, and command and control systems.
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Recent News Items in Computer Systems:
- Computer engineers are developing clothes that monitor health (April 2004)
- Real-time computing solutions aid scheduling, resource allocation (April 2004)
- Secure Programmable Logic Configuration Developed to Prevent Reverse-Engineering (April '03)
- E-textiles: The Ultimate in Flexible Computing (April '03) (Feb '03)
- ECE Team Designing Defense Program for Laptop, Wireless Device Batteries (Feb. '03)
Research Groups & Laboratories
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Faculty Members Conducting Research in Computer Systems
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Configurable Computing Laboratory (CCM website)
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Researchers are pursuing advances in configurable computing technology and FPGAs, along with related applications, such as secure communications, wireless medical communications, bioinformatics acceleration, high performance/low power VLSI, and e-textiles.
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Real Time Systems Laboratory (website)
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The laboratory conducts research in real-time scheduling and resource management (uniprocessor and distributed systems), real-time operating systems and middleware, real-time networking, and systems engineering of real-time systems.
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Virginia Tech E-Textile Group (website)
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Researchers are involved with developing theory and technology for wearable computers and large-scale sensor networks using fabrics that have electronics and interconnections woven into them.
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