Research
in General
APEL has a strong commitment in the establishment
of a liaison with industry in Greece and Europe and in pursuing
research and development in high technology. The General Secretariat of Research & Technology (GSRT) has designated and funded APEL to evolve to
a service laboratory for industrial support in advance technologies.
APEL places great emphasis in combining advanced research with
real system development in the following areas:
1. Real-time distributed
systems for industrial (PROFIBUS, FIP, FF, SP50, BITBUS) and home
(EHSA, EIBA, LON) networking structures based on emerging technologies
and existing / forthcoming international standards.
2. Network management,
configuration software and protocol stack software for industrial
networks and home networks.
3. Protocol software
for interworking, integration, interoperabilty and QoS considerations,
concerning a wide range of physical channels (copper cables, radio
channels, power lines, broadcast channels).
4. Embedded systems
for communications based on advanced microprocessor and DSP cores,
FPGAs and embedded modules using hardware/software co-design techniques,
reusable functional blocks and advanced tools.
5. Hardware/software
solutions for several types of advanced networking structures
such as software radio, xDSL units, RF modems, set-top-boxes and
special ATM adaptors, etc.
6. Advanced wireless
systems and their interworking in fixed and broadcasting networks,
including broadband wireless access and distribution systems,
radio LANs and point-to-point systems supporting interactive real-time
and bandwidth-on-demand services
7. Advanced circuit
and system design, test methodologies and support tools, focused
on low-power mixed signal and highly integrated RF circuits.
