Mitarbeiter
Rainer Leupers
Software for Systems on Silicon

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Rainer Leupers
Phone: +49 241 80-28301
Mobile: +49 177 2131146
Fax: +49 241 80-28306
Walter-Schottky-Haus, Room 24 A 303
postal address: RWTH Aachen, SSS-611910, Templergraben 55, D-52056 Aachen
street address: Sommerfeldstr. 24, D-52074 Aachen
eMail: leupers@iss.rwth-aachen.de
Brief CV
 Rainer Leupers received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science with honors from the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 1992 and 1997. From 1997-2001 he was the chief engineer at the Embedded Systems chair at the University of Dortmund. During 1999-2001 he was also a team leader at ICD, where he headed industrial service projects. In 2002, Dr. Leupers joined RWTH Aachen University as a professor for Software for Systems on Silicon. His research and teaching activities comprise software development tools, processor architectures, and electronic design automation for embedded systems, with emphasis on compilers, ASIPs, and MPSoC design tools. He published several books and numerous technical papers, and he served as a program committee member and topic chair of leading international conferences, including DAC, DATE, and ICCAD. In 2006, he edited the Morgan Kaufmann book Customizable Embedded Processors. Dr. Leupers received several scientific awards, including Best Paper Awards at DATE 2000, 2008 and DAC 2002. He has been a co-founder of LISATek, an EDA tool provider for embedded processor design, acquired by CoWare Inc. He has served as consultant for various companies, as an expert for the European Commission in FP7, and in the management boards of large scale projects like UMIC, HiPEAC, ARTIST, and SHAPES.

In private life, he enjoys spending time with his family as well as outdoor activities like hunting, fishing, and cycling.

Research areas
  • Design tools for application specific processors (ASIPs)
  • Retargetable C compilers and code optimization
  • Multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) design tools
Projects
Teaching areas
  • Basics of Computer Science (Programming)
  • Compiler construction
  • DSP design methodologies and tools
  • Electronic Design Automation
  • Retargetable compilers, Embedded Processor Design (at ALARI)
Recent book
M. Hohenauer and R. Leupers:
C Compilers for ASIPs: Automatic Compiler Generation with LISA
Springer, Berlin
ISBN 1441911758 / 978-1441911759
Dec. 2009
Papers Click here for a publication list. Electronic copies of papers available via the publications section of this WWW site or by email request.