This team examines combinations of programmable analog signal processing and digital signal processing techniques for real world processing. Because real-world signals are analog while much of the modern control and communication is digital, these researchers seek the "where" - where to partition the analog-digital boundary so that the overall functionality of a system is enhanced. A superset of mixed-signal research, CADSP allows freedom of movement for the partition between analog and digital computations by focusing tightly on algorithms as well as circuit implementation. When adding functionality to analog systems, these experts enhance the capabilities of the controlling digital system, and therefore, the entire product under consideration.

The range of applications for these approaches reaches from auditory and speech processing to beam-forming, multidimensional signal processing, radar computations, communications processing, and image processing and recognition.