Research

RICE research on digital integrated circuits and VLSI spans high-performance processors, FPGAs, to energy-efficient accelerators covering applications in digital communication, low-power IoT devices, and cloud computing. We are actively investigating emerging computing paradigms and electronic technologies.

Research Labs

• Secure and Intelligent Micro-Systems (SIMS) Lab

The Secure and Intelligent Micro-Systems (SIMS) Lab @ Rice University, led by Prof. Kaiyuan Yang, creates integrated circuits and micro-systems to enable emerging low SWaP-C (size, weight, power, and cost) electronics, with particular emphasis on hardware intelligence and security through cross-layer innovations. Targeted applications include internet of things, healthcare, and neuroengineering.

• Prof. Cavallaro's Group

Professor Cavallaro, in collaboration with Professor Behnaam Aazhang, is developing parallel architectures for code division multiple access (CDMA) wireless communication systems. This involves the use of parallel arrays of DSP/FPGA processors and custom VLSI processor architectures.