The Embedded Systems Lab of Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay supports teaching and research in embedded systems and re-configurable hardware technology.

It is a cross-disciplinary facility with collaborative projects across departments such as Aero, EE, CSE, Mechanical Engg etc.

Presently, it implements novel ideas revolving around embedded microprocessors and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA's).

Equipment in the lab includes FPGA prototyping boards and FPGA development kits provided by Celoxica Ltd.(U.K.), Dynalog 8051 trainer boards and a host of powerful desktop computers running Celoxica's DK1 Handel-C system development environment and Xilinx tools for hardware design. The FPGA prototyping boards use the Xilinx Vertex chip (1 M gates) or the smaller, cheaper Xilinx Spartan-II (200K gates).

Projects completed in areas such as
• Communication/Networking (design of wireless MAC for 802.11 protocol)
• Digital Signal Processing (DSP) (PPEG-4 codec with encryption)
• Encryption (IDEA, DES, etc. codecs)
• Real-time Operating Systems (Applications)
• Reconfigurable architecture (Inertial Navigation System)

Areas of Interest
• Hardware: Reconfigurable computing, hardware synthesis
• Languages: Esterel, Handel-C, Embedded Java, Rational Rose RTOS: RT-linux, Palm OS, Win-CE
• Embedded control systems: automobiles (such as engine management systems), real-time safety monitoring of industrial processes, etc.
• Telematics: GPS based applications, driver-rating system with automobile "flight-recorder" black-box, applications based on such devices

IIT Bombay Embedded Systems Projects