Research efforts within the Institute of Computer Engineering and Computer Architecture are focused on topics related to test, reliability and fault tolerance of digital systems. A major part of the work is done in cooperation with various partners coming both from universities and from industry, and diploma theses addressing current research tasks are possible within the institute or at the partners' sites.

The necessary background is provided by a number of lectures, seminars and lab courses dealing with basic structures and design techniques as well as with advanced issues of design automation. The lectures Computer Architecture and Computer Structures give an overview of the architectures of modern data processing systems and discusses the basic structures of fast digital systems. The design of self-testable systems is addressed within the lecture Self-testable Systems which is complemented by related seminars. Moreover, various seminars present algorithms and structures for the design of fault tolerant and reliable systems.

The practical background for the design of digital systems is provided by an undergraduate lab course for technical computer science, the goal of which is to introduce elementary electronic devices and to implement simple digital circuits as FPGAs.

The Institute consists of two departments:
Computer Architecture
Embedded Systems Engineering