Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6 (​UPMC) is one of the largest universities teaching science and medicine in France, and indeed in Europe, with 4000 researchers and teaching academics/researchers, 180 laboratories, and some 30 000 students including 8000 in postgraduate studies. UPMC is based in the Latin Quarter in Paris. The ​LIP6 Laboratory is part of UPMC and is one of the most important centers of Computer Science in France (450 permanent researchers and Phd). The ​SoC & Embedded Systems Department of LIP6 has about 80 employees working on all the main areas of research in the domain of Massively Parallel Multiprocessor Systems on Chips including analogue components for multimedia/ telecom applications.