Diseño de Sistemas Electrónicos

In 1993, Dr. Ángel Sebastiá Cortés created the DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN GROUP, belonging to the Department of Electronic Engineering (DIE) at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. The reasons for creating this line of research were:

• The importance of digital systems, which was a relatively undeveloped field in the DIE at that time.
• The fact that several professors in the department were working on and directing separate projects in similar areas and could use common resources.
• The creation of this line of research would bring with it, due to the pooling of human and technical resources, the acquisition of projects funded by industries in the Valencian Community and by both regional and national public institutions.
• The development of this line of research would be of great interest in supporting teaching.
• The aforementioned line of research could serve as support for any project developed by any other line of research in the Department.

The initial lines of work basically included the design, study, and development of systems with microprocessors, microcontrollers, and digital signal processors, and the design of digital and data acquisition systems using standardized buses.

In 2000, the Digital Systems Design Group, together with other groups from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, created the University Institute for Advanced Information and Communications Technology Applications (ITACA).

Over the last few decades, the group has created a new line of research focused on the development of electronics for medical instrumentation in the field of molecular imaging. This has been possible thanks to research projects carried out in collaboration with José María Benlloch Baviera, a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). This collaboration led to the creation in 2010 of the Joint Institute for Molecular Imaging Instrumentation, based on an agreement signed between the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Consequently, as the driving force behind the creation of the Institute for Molecular Imaging Instrumentation (I3M), the Digital Systems Design Group has become part of this new institute, now as the Electronic Systems Design Area, as its lines of research cover both digital and analog electronics.