Microprocessor and Hardware Laboratory (MHL)

The Hardware Group within the MHL Laboratory (ECE dept. / Technical University of Crete) focuses on research around computer architecture, custom hardware design, reconfigurable accelerators for both low-power and HPC systems as well as cybersecurity issues closely related to hardware (such as side channel attacks, architectural security issues, ISA extensions, cryptography, etc). Additionally, to serve those primary interests, the group also has a strong background on embedded software, high-performance computing applications (using all sorts of accelerators, incl. high-performance GPUs), operating systems, hypervisors, trusted execution environments, drivers and other aspects of low-level software. Lastly, the group has been involved in the design and development of CAD software and system simulators.

For undergraduate/postgraduate students landing on this page, please check the open theses subjects available, as well as the work carried out as part of ongoing theses from fellow students. This site does not provide information for other educational activities related to the MHL lab. Feel free to contact, members of the lab to discuss a potential collaboration and use the information provided as an indicator of open research activities that are of the interest of the group, if you want to propose a relevant subject, not currently listed here.

For researchers, the best way to get an overview of the research activities of the group is to check the publications and the available equipment. The former provides a comprehensive list of most publications of the group, while the latter provides an overview of the available equipment and software resources that can be used for research activities.