The objectives of the ESDA group include all aspects of Research and Design of Electronic Systems, and Research and Development of Tools and Algorithms for Design Automation. Current emphasis is given to the area of Reconfigurable Systems, i.e., systems than can be implemented using reconfigurable hardware (e.g. FPGAs).

The research objectives on Reconfigurable Systems involve the design of dedicated reconfigurable systems for applications that cannot be adequately handled by pure software systems due to its large computational requirements. The research activities in this area include both the design of dedicated reconfigurable computing systems for specific application examples, and the development of generic reconfigware (reconfigurable hardware) components to be re-used in generic applications.