Hardware architectures for embedded real time systems to support performance and environmental requirements are important especially for use in related activities. There are also basic research activities in order to support other areas, for example “scheduling”.

• Architectural support for improved resource management in real-time systems. Examples for these are CPU timer extensions for time-triggered scheduling and task-aware power management units.
• Efficient architectures for reliable operation in difficult environments, especially for subsea, industrial, in-vehicle, marine and other applications.
• Hardware to meet environmental and other requirements (EMC, ATEX etc) in combination with demanding communication and interface requirements.
• Efficient design of small embedded systems.
• Extremely low power instrumentation systems for research and survey of biological systems.
• Adaptation and extension of network architectures for industrial use.
• Extremely small systems for use in the field of medicine