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Silicon Carbide Power Technology for Energy Eficient Devices (SPEED)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"Highly efficient Power Electronics (PE) employed in power generation, transmission, and distribution is the prerequisite for the Europe-wide penetration of renewable energies; improves the energy efficiency; increases the power quality and enables continuous voltage regulation, reactive power compensation and automated distribution. It also facilitates the integration of distributed resources lik ...
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Nano-carbons for versatile power supply modules (NANOCATE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The multidisciplinary consortium of the NanoCaTe project will develop a more efficient thermoelectric- and storage material based on nanocarbon (e.g. graphene and CNT) to reclaim waste heat by thermoelectric generators and to storage the energy in super capacitors or secondary batteries for manifold applications like pulsed sensors or mobile electronic devices.The integration of the developed mate ...
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Silicon Microphone (SiMic)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

MEMS (Micro-Electrical-Mechanical System) based microphones, so called “silicon microphones” - are relevant in many applications as their manufacturability is better compared to electret condenser mics (ECM). Often MEMS mics hold embedded ADCs (Analog-to-Digital Converter) on the same CMOS chip. Those “digital output mics” perfectly fit into innovative digital products e.g. smart phones. Extremely ...
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Embedded Multi-Core Systems for Mixed Criticality Applications in Dynamic and Changeable Real-Time Environments (EMC2)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Embedded systems are the key innovation driver to improve almost all mechatronic products with cheaper and even new functionalities. Furthermore, they strongly support today's information society as inter-system communication enabler.Consequently boundaries of application domains are alleviated and ad-hoc connections and interoperability play an increasing role. At the same time, multi-core and ma ...
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Arrowhead (ARROWHEAD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"Our society is facing both energy and competitiveness challenges. These challenges are tightly linked and require new dynamic interactions between energy producers and energy consumers, between machines, between systems, between people and systems, etc. Cooperative automation is the key for these dynamic interactions and is enabled by the technology developed around the Internet of Things and Ser ...
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MAssive MiMO for Efficient Transmission (MAMMOET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The Internet of the future will to a large extent rely on mobile networks. Mobile data grew with 70% in 2012 and is predicted to grow 13-fold in the next 5 years. This puts very high demands on the development of mobile access technology. MAMMOET will advance the development of Massive MIMO (MaMi), a new and most promising direction in mobile access. MaMi makes a clean break with current technolog ...
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Multi-entity-security using active Transmission Technology for improved Handling of Exportable security credentials Without privacy restrictions (MATTHEW)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

With the increasing pervasion of our society by mobile devices like smart phones and tablets and many users running several security relevant applications on multiple mobile devices at the same time, security and privacy challenges outranging those on personal computers arise. In the near future, users are expected to move personal roles and identities between mobile platforms. Electronic represen ...
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INnovative COst efficient management system for next generation high voltage BATteries (INCOBAT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

In recent years, electric mobility has been promoted as the clean and cost-efficient alternative to combustion engines. Although there are already solutions on the market, mass take-up has not yet taken place. There are different challenges that hinder this process from an end user point of view such as costs of the vehicle, driving range, or infrastructure support. Several of these challenges are ...
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Silicon Integrated Digital RF Transmitters for Massively Deployed Systems (SIDMAS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"Modern societies are more and more depending on the availability of mobile networks with upcoming standards addressing the need of user rates up to Gbit/s. SIDMAS will substantially contribute to the novel development of practical future cellular transceivers and help to secure a leading position for European industry in its exploitation. Since the transmitter/PA combination is the most critical ...
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POWER SoC With Integrated PassivEs (PowerSwipe)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Europe is a world leader in innovative automotive systems with competencies covering the full supply chain from the main OEMs (Audi, BMW, Daimler, Fiat, PSA, RSA, VW) to Tier1 suppliers (Bosch, Continental, Magneti Marelli) to leading semiconductor companies (Infineon, ST). The vision for electronic automotive control units in 2020 is that the battery will supply multi-core µControllers via multip ...
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Holistic Approaches for Integrity of ICT-Systems (HINT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The security of modern ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) systems relies fundamentally on the integrity of hardware components. This is the case for user identification and authentication as in smartcards, e-Id, e-Passports, e-health devices or for the integrity checking of computers and mobile systems as in trusted computing and TPMs. But it is also the case for telecommunication i ...
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Verification and Testing to Support Functional Safety Standards (VeTeSS)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

New safety standards, such as ISO 26262, present a challenge for companies producing safety-relevant embedded systems. Safety verification today is often ad-hoc and manual; it is done differently for digital and analogue, hardware and software.The VeTeSS project will develop standardized tools and methods for verification of the robustness of safety-relevant systems, particularly against transient ...
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GaN-based normally-off high power switching transistor for efficient power converters (HiPoSwitch)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Highly efficient power electronics is needed for low volume and low weight future power conversion systems. The proposed project aims for the exploitation of novel gallium nitride (GaN) transistors for advanced switched power supplies. High voltage normally-off GaN power devices on Si substrates in vertical device architecture will be developed and its technology transferred to an European industr ...
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Verification for heterogeneous Reliable Design and Integration (Verdi)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Systems of Systems (SoS) are heterogeneous whereby the functionality more and more rely on the interaction and interoperability between the analogue/mixed-signal (AMS), digital electronics, software and other physical domains.To achieve the required reliability, robustness and quality of SoS, mastering the heterogeneous behaviour across domains is the most essential part during the development pro ...
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Best-Reliable Ambient Intelligent Nano Sensor Systems (e-BRAINS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

Best-Reliable Ambient Intelligent Nanosensor Systems – e-BRAINS – represent a giant leap for outstanding future applications in the area of ambient living with the ultimate need for integration of heterogeneous technologies, high-performance nanosensor devices, miniaturization, smart wireless communication and best-reliability.e-BRAINS with minimum volume and weight as well as reduced power consum ...
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Design methods for Radio Architectures GOing Nanoscale (DRAGON)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

Description DRAGON develops a design platform and novel flexible RF architectures for SoC( Systems on Chip) and SiP (Systems in Package).The DRAGON project seeks to achieve distinct reductions in cost, size and energy consumption for multi-standard cellular handsets, and other products employing similar technology, while meeting higher de ...
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