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| 33 | | * LETI (Laboratory for Electronics & Information Technology) is operated by the Technology |
| 34 | | Department of CEA (DRT "Direction de la Recherche Technologique"), the French Atomic Energy |
| 35 | | Commission. LETI is one of the largest European applied research laboratories in the field |
| 36 | | of electronics: permanent staff is approximately 1200 people. The main activities of CEA/LETI |
| 37 | | are dealing with electronics, microelectronics, microsystems and IC design. |
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| 39 | | Its corporate goal is to bring technological innovation to the European industry, and to create |
| 40 | | added value through an active Intellectual Property policy based on the management of strong patent |
| 41 | | portfolio (> 500 active patents, and more than 140 filings/year) and the licensing of its technologies. |
| 42 | | For more than ten years, LETI has been working on wireless systems for several applications fields: |
| 43 | | medical (indoor), military (outdoor), robotics, mobiles phones and communications with mobiles |
| 44 | | (cars, trains, underground, etc.). LETI is currently involved in several R&D telecom project |
| 45 | | of the 6th Framework. |
| 46 | | |
| 47 | | The DCIS Department (DCIS: "Conception et Intégration des Systèmes") at LETI is in charge of |
| 48 | | the IC design activities, and is currently addressing the following topics: |
| 49 | | - digital and mixed chip design for telecom, smart cards, RFID, image processing, smart devices, etc. |
| 50 | | - architecture exploration (HW/SW partitioning, performance evaluation, etc.) |
| 51 | | - design flow methodology (SystemC/TLM methodology, XML/Spirit, Matlab/Simulink co simulation, etc). |
| 52 | | |
| 53 | | An important concern at LETI is the design of mixed signal, multi-physics systems with |
| 54 | | sensors/activators (MEMS, MOEMS, etc.), RF front-end and complex SOC design and architecture. |
| 55 | | |
| 56 | | LETI is now reference as a world wide key actor in the field of network on chip (NOC) architecture: |
| 57 | | refer to LETI papers at the ISSCC'07 conference. An innovative Software Defined Radio platform based |
| 58 | | on fully distributed communication and control system has been designed. This architecture framework |
| 59 | | is targeting complex data flow applications. The backbone of the architecture is a layered asynchronous |
| 60 | | NOC that brings scalability at architecture level and flexibility at the application level. |
| 61 | | Silicon proves these concepts, and is currently used for complex Radio Access technology experimentation. |
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