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At the essence of hardwaree

The projects developed by the Hardware Project Support Research Group (GAPH) in the past 17 years may not be visible to the naked eye, but their results provide the fundamental grounds of other projects. The aim of GAPH is to investigate and develop methods and tools for the Hardware Project and to implant and validate systems multi-processed in one single chip. The group is prominent because of the production of project methods for systems integrated into a single integrated circuit, including intra-chip communication, flexible intellectual property cores and associated project methods, quick prototyping of reconfigurable digital systems by electronic devices such as FPGAs and CPLDs and hardware platforms based on them.

Chaired by Professors Ney Laert Vilar Calazans and Fernando Gehm Moraes, the GAPH is an international reference in the development of intra-chip networks, which has been a line of research of the group since 2002. The GAPH systems are available online for academic use, and the registered users represent more than 30 different counties.

In Brazil, the group participates in the National Institute of Science and Technology in Critical Embedded Systems (INTCSec). Such systems are a component of larger systems that may never stop or fail, e.g., the systems in medical and aerospace equipment. At the INTC-Sec, the GAPH members participate in projects related to tactical robots for internal environments and terrestrial autonomous vehicles.

In France, the main partners of GAPH are the Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics of Montpellier University, involving researcher exchange missions, and the CEA-Leti, Laboratory of Information Technologies Electronics, one of the main French microelectronics laboratories, located at Grenoble. A partnership with the Institute of Technology of Karlsruhe (Germany) is scheduled to start in 2013. The GAPH further develops joint projects with Brazilian telecommunication companies such as Parks Comunicações Digitais and Datacom.