As the name suggests, the DAES group focusses on the design automation of embedded systems. This means that the group works on methodologies and tools which automate or help to design embedded systems. Design automation aims at reducing the cost of designing embedded sytems and at improving properties of the resulting designs (e.g. the energy consumption or the timing predictability). The focus is on generating tool chains for designing embedded software. Such tool chains include compilers, optimizers and tools mapping applications to execution platforms.