Research groups

GDEM, Electronic and Microelectronic Design Group, is made up by eight associated professors (six PhDs), two researchers with job contract, and eight students on scholarship grants. It has been developing industrial projects as well as carrying out R&D projects with public funds since 1996. Its main expertise is in electronic design, video coding, digital television and convergence of audio, video and data over different broadcasting networks (cable, satellite and radio). GDEM was qualified as an official UPM R&D group in the first call of 2005.

 

The Group was created in 1996 with headquarters at the then University School of Telecommunications Engineering of the UPM (currently the School of Telecommunications Engineering and Systems) and later integrated into the CITSEM as one of its promoter groups. Since its creation, GDEM has focused its activity, among others, on carrying out R&D projects in close collaboration with Industry, as well as through public funding calls, having used design methodologies based on hardware description languages (HDLs) and logic synthesis and with the appropriate technological support for each application (ASICs, PLDs, FPGAs, microprocessors, microcontrollers, DSPs, etc.). These activities have provided him with a solid experience in electronic design, video coding, digital television and convergence between audio, video and data over different broadcasting networks (cable, satellite or radio).

 

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The group is currently working on several lines of research, focusing its main activity on video and image technologies:

  • Digital video coding.
  • Hyperspectral imaging.
  • Reconfigurable architectures for adaptive computing on heterogeneous platforms.
  • Optimisation of power consumption in portable multimedia devices.
  • Augmented reality and ambient intelligence.
  • Multiprocessor architectures for software radio applications.

 

The work in these lines has been and is mostly framed within R&D projects, the main results of which are reflected in the various communications to conferences and publications of articles in journals. His research can be applied to the following areas:

  • Digital television.
  • Precision medicine.
  • Intelligent agriculture.
  • Mobile terminals.
  • Space