The activity in this strategic area focuses on the analysis and development of engineering design applications that motivate research in simulation/optimisation algorithms and methods. The primary attention is given to the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and, especially, the development of pertinent automation tools.

In the recent past we focused part of the effort on projecting the design tools for electronics, particularly those related to the problems of information extraction and functional verification. In the area Advanced Training and High-School Relations, the emphasis was placed on offering the specialisation work for the students concluding their licentiate's degree.

The INOV offer in the domain of Computational Prototyping, which basically includes the areas of the Technology Development for Products and Systems and the Advanced Training, is intended for companies specialising in the development of computational tools requiring specific algorithms or involving huge amount of data.