Research Area
Laboratory
Multimedia Information System
Mobile Communication System
Analog and High Frequency Circuit Design
Large Scale Digital Circuit Design
LSI Design Automation
LSI Verification and Test
Distinctive features of the educational program
LSI design and test
・For first year students of master course
・Course for both lecture and experiment
・Digital circuits and Analog circuits
Valuing a systematic education
・Various courses on Algorithms and Software
・Communication, Video processing and Ubiquitous applications
Education on System LSI design
・Design and test course for system LSI
・Each student designes a pipeline processor (photo is one in 2003)

Research and Education projects
The "Intelligent Cluster Creation Project" (2002-2007) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science
and Technology
The purpose of this project is to reduce the electric power consumption by 1/100 of the current product's one in the area of multimedia information processing such as video,image,audio and text. New innovative technologies will be developed to achieve this goal.
The "Basic Software for System LSI Design Project"(2003-2008) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
IPS has been running a project on software engineer training program on the Basic Software for System LSI design committed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology: the Basic Software for System LSI Design. Over five years, we expect to turn out 30 PhDs and 140 masters.
Joint research with corporations contracted research
Toshiba, NEC, Renesas Electronics, Panasonic, Sanyo, Sony, Sharp, Seiko Epson, Toyota, Renesas Micro Systems, Venture companies, etc.
Research collaboration, student exchange with oversea universities
UCB (University of California, Berkeley), EPFL(Swiss Federal Institute of Technoligy Lausanne, Stanford University, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology),
National Taiwan University, Tsinghua University (Taiwan), Tsinghua University (China), Fudan University, Indian Institute of Science, etc.