The Department of Microelectronics and Computer Science (DMCS) was founded by Prof. Andrzej Napieralski in May 1996. The members of the department staff give lectures and run laboratory courses at the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering and the International Faculty of Engineering, in Polish, French, and English. The Department cooperates with a wide range of research organizations and academia from all round the world. This international cooperation is constantly strengthened thanks to the MIXDES conference which is organized by DMCS annually starting from 1994.

 

Several research projects funded by the European Union are realized in the Department. Between 1991 and 2007, 10 Tempus and Copernicus projects were successfully concluded, as well as one sponsored by NATO. Moreover, since 1994 the Department took part in the international project BARMINT realized within the EU research programme Esprit. From 2001 to 2008 two projects within the EU 5th Framework Programme (SEWING and REASON) and one within the 6th Framework (CARE). Currently another 6th Framework project (PERPLEXUS) is approaching the end. The new 7th Framework project (EduMEMS) has just started.

A large number of publications at international and national conferences as well as papers published in renowned scientific journals result from research activities in the following areas:

Microelectronics and microsystems

• integrated digital, analog and mixed systems
• tools and methods of ASIC integrated circuit design
• reprogrammable and dynamically reconfigurable circuits
• microsystems - LabOnChip
• specialized architectures of parallel computers
  
  
   

Embedded systems

• design of embedded systems
• reprogrammable embedded systems
• distributed control systems
• advanced telecommunication standards (e.g. ATCA) in control and data acquisition systems with the special emphasis on the high energy physics
• mobile systems
• real-time systems

Simulation and modelling

• modelling of small-signal, low,  medium and high power semiconductor devices
• modelling of electronic circuits and systems
• modelling of heat transfer
• modelling of energy cables
• modelling of microsystems and microstructures
• modelling of chemical structures

Analysis of biomedical signals and images

• biometry
• analysis of microscopic tissue images
• analysis of ECG signal

Power Conversion and Management in Electronic Systems

• power electronic converters
• energy-efficient lighting
• autonomous systems supply
• analog and digital control for power electronics

Photovoltaic Systems

• modeling and simulation
• long-term estimations
• energy management systems
• operating point dynamics
• influence of environment

Industrial Electronics

• vibration diagnostics in large rotating machines
• industrial controllers and computers
• data transmission in industrial networks
• supervisory control and data acquisition systems

Information systems

• network application design
• distributed application design
• layered internet application design
• mobile application design
• security and system administration

Databases

• relational databases
• data warehouses
• distributed databases
• object-relational mapping methodology

Software Engineering

• CASE methods
• mathematical linguistics
• compiler design methodology
• network protocol design
• system analysis
• object-oriented design
• semantic networks
• project management in computer science

Optimization and Artificial Intelligence concepts

• neural networks
• probability networks
• genetic algorithms
• ant colony optimization

Many PhD projects have been carried on in the Department. So far 61 dissertations have been defended, most of them with distinction. Moreover, six of them received the Polish Prime Minister award, one won the 1999 national competition for PhD dissertations in the domain of system sciences and one has been awarded by the IV Department of Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Science in 2005.

From the day of its foundation, in the Department a large number of projects financed by the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) have been completed. The Department also maintains constant cooperation with industry in the US, Canada, Germany, and Poland, performing different kinds of contracts.