Mr Alexopoulos Ilias received his B.S. degree from the Automation department of T.E.I. of Piraeus in Athens Greece in 1996 and his MS degree from Brunel University in 1999; now he is a PhD candidate at University of Nicosia. With more than 20 years of experience in embedded system design, product development and involved in numerous projects he gained experience in multiple domains in sensing, DC motors, prototyping, control systems, DSP, FPGAs, RF, Certifications, testing and system engineering. He is also an inventor with patents in US and EU, and recognition of work within companies and the open-source community. Currently developing low-cost heterogeneous embedded platform that consists of a two-chip solution with 32-bit microcontrollers and a tightly coupled FPGAs, with the relevant ecosystem of firmware and hardware to support rapid application development.