Director: Patrick Girard
Assistant Director: Serge Bernard and Laurent Latorre

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The Microelectronics Department is one of three research departments at LIRMM and is specialized in the research of innovative solutions to model, design and test complex integrated circuits and systems. The fields of expertise of the Department allow to conduct research activities on the following strategic topics:

• development of new generations of processor architectures for applications like 4G mobile phones, signal and image processing, or multimedia;
  
• design for testability, and test of integrated circuits and systems, which include all activities on modeling, detection and diagnostic of physical failures;
  
• design, integration and test of micro-systems based on sensors and actuators;
  
• secured design for the confidentiality and integrity of communications ( in banking transactions for example);
  
• design of circuits for the health and medical domains, with applications like neuro-stimulation systems implanted the human body.
  

On October 1st, 2011, the department is composed of 29 permanent researchers (CNRS researchers and directors) and lecturer-researchers (associate professors and full professors from the University of Montpellier 2), 4 engineers, technicians and administrative, plus around sixty PhD and Post-Doc students.


Research activities carried out within the Microelectronics Department are organized within two major thematic projects:

• SysMIC project: Design and Test of Microelectronic Systems
  
  
• DEMAR project: Deambulation and Artificial Movement (joint LIRMM - INRIA project / joint Robotics and Microelectronics department project)