Digital IC Design and Systems laboratory (DICES lab) is part of Computer and Informatics Engineering Department of the Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, focusing on the undergraduate and postgraduate education in the areas of hardware design (FPGA and ASIC), hardware design of secure systems, hardware design of digital signal processing systems and FPGA for IoT applications.

The main research interests of the Digital IC Design and Systems laboratory are the efficient hardware architecture design of digital ICs for security and cryptography systems, for digital signal processing systems and embedded for agricultural IoT applications.

The major directions are:
•IoT for agricultural applications
•Embedded hardware
•Digital IC design for security systems
•Efficient hardware implementations of cryptographic modules
•Efficient hardware implementations of digital signal processing systems
•Efficient low power IC design
•FPGAs and ASICs design