Computer engineering

The Computational Engineering group at TU Clausthal's Institute for Informatics works on modern hardware design. Our goal is computing systems that are more capable while using less energy and fewer resources. A major focus is processor development: we extend the open RISC-V architecture and also explore entirely new processor concepts. We also develop hardware for neural networks. With approximate computing, we study how to save energy and resources where computations need not be exact. Our research covers the entire design flow, from logic synthesis to implementation on FPGAs. To this end, we use and extend modern hardware construction languages such as Chisel and Clash, which bring software engineering methods to hardware design. Throughout, we build on open hardware and open standards.