Institute for Complex Systems

Welcome to the Institute for Complex Systems

The Institute for Complex Systems (ICS) targets the ever-increasing complexity of hardware/software systems. Here, the institute considers suitable abstraction levels, i.e. Virtual Prototypes (VPs) in SystemC for HW/SW systems at the Electronic System Level (ESL), HW designs in Verilog/VHDL at the Register Transfer Level (RTL), down to the gate-level. Primary research areas are verification, debugging, and synthesis, all major problems in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). We heavily use the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) in our research work (see e.g. our open-source RISC-V VP++).

Announcements

  • We are looking for Student Assistants. If you are interested, please contact Prof. Daniel Große.

News

2024

  • Jul 13, 2024: Daniel Große has been appointed as Program Committee Member of the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) 2025.
  • Jun 25-27, 2024: Our works on (i) Surfer: a waveform viewer as dynamic as RISC-V and (ii) Bounded load/stores in grammar-based code generation for testing the RISC-V vector extension are presented at the RISC-V Summit Europe 2024.
  • Jun 24, 2024: Lucas Klemmer received the Young Researchers Award by Johannes Kepler Universität Linz for his research on the Waveform Analysis Language (WAL) developed during his PhD — Congratulations!
  • Jun 13, 2024: Lucas Klemmer successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis titled “Versatile Hardware Analysis Techniques: From Waveform-based Analysis to Formal Verification” — Congratulations! Many thanks to the examination committee consisting of Prof. Daniel Große (JKU), Prof. Wolfgang Kunz (RPTU), Prof. Martina Seidl (JKU) and headed by Prof. Josef Küng (JKU).
  • Jun 06, 2024: Daniel Große gives a keynote on “Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Your Waveforms via Programmable Analysis” at the Microelectronic Systems Symposium (MESS 2024).
  • Jun 03, 2024: Our book Erweiterte virtuelle Prototypen für heterogene Systeme has been published by Springer.
  • May 23, 2024: Our work on Relation coverage: A new paradigm for hardware/software testing is presented at the European Test Symposium (ETS 2024).
  • May 14, 2024: Paul Blume successfully completed his Bachelor thesis entitled “First SERV: Towards Device Localization using BLE”. Congratulations!
  • Apr 30, 2024: Daniel Große has been appointed as Program Committee Member of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2024.
  • Apr 12, 2024: Daniel Große has been appointed as Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Metamorphic Testing (MET) 2024.
  • Apr 11, 2024: Daniel Große has been appointed as Topic Co-Chair for “Validation, Verification, Debug and Diagnosis” at the European Test Symposium (ETS) 2025.
  • Apr 05, 2024: Daniel Große has been appointed as Program Committee Member of the Design and Verification Conference in Europe (DVCon Europe) 2024 in the research track.
  • Mar 25-27, 2024: Our works on (i) A RISC-V “V” VP: Unlocking vector processing for evaluation at the system level and (ii) Using formal verification methods for optimization of circuits under external constraints are presented at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2024). Moreover, our works (i) RISC-V VP++: Next generation open-source virtual prototype and (ii) WSVA: A SystemVerilog Assertion to WAL Compiler are presented at the Workshop on Open-Source Design Automation (OSDA 2024) hosted at DATE.
  • Mar 16, 2024: Our paper “WAVING Goodbye to Manual Waveform Analysis in HDL Design with WAL” has been accepted for publication in the journal IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD). See PDF (open access).
  • Mar 12, 2024: Daniel Große has been appointed as Program Committee Member of the special session “MATTERV: Opensource Methods, architectures, tools and technologies for RISC-V” at the Euromicro Conference Series on Digital System Design (DSD) 2024.
  • Mar 05, 2024: Daniel Große has been appointed as Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Boolean Problems (IWSBP) 2024.
  • Feb 14, 2024: Our work on Leveraging Virtual Prototypes and Metamorphic Testing for Verification of Embedded Graphics Libraries is presented at the ITG/GI/GMM-Workshop Methoden und Beschreibungssprachen zur Modellierung und Verifikation von Schaltungen und Systemen (MBMV 2024).
  • Jan 30, 2024: Daniel Große has been appointed as Program Committee Member of the Forum on specification & Design Languages (FDL) 2024.
  • Jan 23-25, 2024: Our works on (i) Verifying embedded graphics libraries leveraging virtual prototypes and metamorphic testing and (ii) Towards a highly interactive design-debug-verification cycle are presented at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2024).
  • Jan 16, 2024: Daniel Große has been appointed as Program Committee Member of the 4th Workshop on Open-Source Design Automation (OSDA) 2024.

2023