DAVE's academy

Our labs host students and interns working on stages and experimental thesis during the whole year. The topics explored in these internships usually belong to the following macro-areas:

• Embedded Electronics Systems: this area is related to the core business of the company
• Management Information System, which is part of the company IT infrastructure
• Communication and marketing, which is part of the Technical Sales Department.

In this page, we'll present specific proposals and some examples of past thesis. We would like to emphasize that, due to the characteristics of our business, the range of topics of interest (technologies, scientific, applications) is huge, and it's not possible to prepare formal proposals for each one. For this reason, if you are evaluating the possibility of carrying out an internship or a thesis with us, but you can't find a proposal that perfectly matches your interests, we suggest you to contact us through the email address you'll find below. Thus, we'll be able to evaluate the possibility of finding a topic that is interesting for both of us.

Please note that our proposals can be accessed by both junior and senior graduating students. The topic will be adjusted to fit the knowledge and skills acquired by the students. Each topic, on student suggestions, can be adapted to get closer to the research area of the student's supervisor. The proposals will be evaluated to check their compatibility with the targets of the company. We suggest interested students contact the company, to go deeper into the matter and get the whole picture.

Finally, we report that the experimental thesis are an effective instrument for the recruitment of new employees. This is confirmed by the fact that a relevant part of of our R&D team has been hired right after the completion of the internship.

Embedded Systems Area

This area is vast and strongly interdisciplinary. The following is a not exhaustive list of topics related to it:

• microprocessor systems
• programmable logics (FPGA)
• DSP
• operating systems (Linux, Android, etc.)
• real-time operating systems (RTOS)
• image processing
• video encoding
• pattern recognition
• switching amplifiers
• motion control
• functional security and high reliability
• electronic design and signal integrity
• electromagnetic compatibility
• Industrial IoT, cloud platforms, and mobile app
• cybersecurity and embedded systems.

Examples of open proposals:

• Cybesecurity of edge devices

• Design of a highly-configurable embedded module built upon an FPGA architecture with integrated PowerPC processor
• Implementation of an embedded system with hardware 2D-graphic acceleration on FPGA
• Application of IEC 61508 regulations for functional safety in a programmable system for motor control
• Implementation of Linux and FreeRTOS operating systems in Asymmetric Multi-Processing Platform (2017)
• Hardening of an industrial IoT system

DAVE Embedded Systems supports the Trieste University's Car Racing Team

DAVE Embedded Systems is devoted to supporting educational programs and projects in local High Schools and Universities. The aim of this support is to create interest about embedded systems technologies and increase the understanding of these devices in students and teachers/professors.

This is the reason why DAVE Embedded Systems has encouraged the new project UniTS Racing Team "Faster Than Bora" (http://formulasae.units.it/). This project started thanks to the strong impulse of some students who have the aim to compete with other Italian Universities around the design of electrical cars and compete in the Formula SAE program.

Design an electrical car means design embedded systems able to control the vehicle during the racing time. For this reason, DAVE Embedded Systems is contributing to providing some embedded devices and know-how around the SW design. This project is just starting but we are already proud of our team...good luck UniTS Racing Team!

Man does not live by work alone, every now and then it is necessary to take a break!

To be able to work on the team and with the team, there are several opportunities for those who want to join the team:

• Periodic moments of aggregation: usually once a month we eat pizza together!

• Excursions out of town, if there is snow or the moon is growing, why not a nice walk in our mountains and have some team building!

• For those who want to stay in shape: go to the pool a couple of times a week!

• Coming soon: table football for everyone!

We welcome schools in our facilities for a company tour

We are very happy to welcome schools to our factories and show them what we do. In our small way, DAVE Embedded Systems covers all the needs of a technological company. By dealing with both product design and development and manufacturing, we manage all the phases internally and can therefore provide a small but important example of how a 4.0 company operates.

From product planning and management, to its actual HW and SW design, we can tell students all the phases that lead a new product to be created starting from the initial idea. This with the help of the staff of each department who are well suited to doing this recreational activity as well as brand building for them.

The second part of the tour concerns production, the methods of production of embedded systems are presented, from warehouse management and quality control to production, manual or automatic testing and inspection according to the product

A final moment of relaxation is usually granted in order to inspire the new generations to continue studying and, why not, and dream of one day coming here to DAVE Embedded Systems!