The primary focus of Karakonstantis’ research lies on the development of energy-efficient and dependable circuits and systems for portable embedded devices and high-end servers targeting various multimedia, communication, data-mining, health-monitoring, as well as high-performance applications within Edge and Cloud environments.

The group’s work spans three main topics:

• Characterization of the intrinsic variability in memories and design of low cost SW/HW schemes for enabling operation at extended operating points, while addressing potential hardware induced errors.
• Development of error-resilient, approximate and low-power general-purpose and application-specific processors by exploiting application characteristics.
• Implementation of data-processing accelerators and scheduling algorithms for utilizing FPGAs and GPUs in Cloud data-centres and Edge environments.