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Founded in 1991, OFFIS is a research and development institute and a
centre of excellence for selected areas of information technology and
its fields of application. Over 100 full-time scientists work in six R&D
divisions each dedicated to a specific field of computer science. The
main objective of the "Embedded Hardware-/Software-Systems" division is
to develop concepts and tools improving the productivity in design of
high-complexity SoC and embedded software. Using abstraction as the key
concept to achieve this goal, we focus on high-level design flows based
on SystemC. In particular we address two main challenges. One is the
automatic and efficient transformation of abstract models into
implementations in hardware and software. The other is the estimation
and optimization of the energy consumption of embedded systems at system
level. We believe that close collaboration with the industry is the key
to make research concepts applicable in real-live design. This often
leads to the development of new innovative design tools at the OFFIS website.
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