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GaN densily integrated with Si-CMOS for reliable, cost effective high frequency power delivery systems (GaNonCMOS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Power electronics is the key technology to control the flow of electrical energy between source and load for a wide variety of applications from the GWs in energy transmission lines, the MWs in datacenters that power the internet to the mWs in mobile phones. Wide band gap semiconductors such as GaN use their capability to operate at higher voltages, temperatures, and switching frequencies with gr ...
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Silicon-based Ka-band massive MIMO antenna systems for new telecommunication services (SILIKA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

The continuously growing need for higher data-rates and, therefore, more signal bandwidth in wireless communications, requires the use of multi-antenna base stations employing the recently introduced massive Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) concept and operating at millimeter-wave frequencies, e.g. 30 GHz. However, the implementation of such complex antenna systems into highly-integrated, ene ...
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AUTOmated driving Progressed by Internet Of Things (AUTOPILOT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

"Automated driving is expected to increase safety, provide more comfort and create many new business opportunities for mobility services. The market size is expected to grow gradually reaching 50% of the market in 2035. The IoT is about enabling connections between objects or "things"; it’s about connecting anything, anytime, anyplace, using any service over any network. There is little doubt that ...
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NANOmaterials: STRategies for Safety Assessments in advanced Integrated Circuits Manufacturing (NanoStreeM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Understanding properties of nanoparticles (and in general of nano-functionalized materials) and how they behave in living systems is a relatively new area of scientific study. The scientific community has not yet been able to derive harmful properties of nanomaterials from the properties of the bulk material. So a precautionary approach is required when handling and using these materials in circum ...
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Safe and COnnected aUtomation in road Transport (SCOUT)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

"The project "Safe and COnnected aUtomation in road Transport" (SCOUT) aims at identifying pathways for an accelerated proliferation of safe and connected high-degree automated driving in Europe, taking into account user needs and expectations, technical and non-technical gaps and risks, viable business models as well as international cooperation and competition.The analysis will start from a thor ...
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Integrated Components for Complexity Control in affordable electrified cars (3Ccar)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

The 3Ccar project will provide highly integrated ECS Components for Complexity Control in thereby affordable electrified cars. The new semiconductors for Complexity management (Control, reduction) will offer the next level of energy efficiency in transportation systems.3Ccar’s impact is maximizing pragmatic strategy: Use semiconductor technology innovations to manage functionality & complexity inc ...
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Open Architectures for Intelligent Solid State Lighting Systems (OpenAIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

...d for Internet connected lighting.The project brings together a strong collaboration of the leading lighting companies Zumtobel, Tridonic, and Philips and the major players in IoT technology ARM, NXP and Imtech. Consortium partner Johnson Controls represents the end user and academic knowledge on ICT and system architecture is present through TU/e and TNO-ESI. During the project, the Consortium wi ...
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Take the energy bill back to the promised building performance (TRIBUTE)

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

Today, Building Energy Performance Simulation (BEPS) analysis tends to show a large discrepancy with real energy performance. Most cases are due to gross mistakes rather than fundamental inadequacy of available technology and methods. The reasons are manifold. Highly simplified calculation methods are used far beyond their domain of validity. Assumed boundary conditions such as occupant behaviour ...
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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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Excellence in Speed and Reliability for More Than Moore Technologies (ERAMP)

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

Europe’s strengths are based on the deep knowledge and market position in automotive industry, industrial electronics industry and leading know how for More-than-Moore based embedded system. It is of vital interest for the electronics manufacturers in Europe to have fast access to reliable prototypes of electronic devices as well as competitive advanced manufacturing of such devices made in Europe ...
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Sensor technologies enhanced safety and security of buildings and its occupants (SAFESENS)

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

During our life’s, both privately and professionally, we exposed to a multitude of hazardous situations. And most of the time we are not (timely) aware of the dangerous situation. One of these silent killers is definitely carbon monoxide poisoning. There is a direct societal need for home and building automation (HABA) systems equipped with ultra-sensitive, reliable gas sensors (for hazardous gase ...
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Dependable Embedded Wireless Infrastructure (DEWI)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

DEWI (dependable embedded wireless infrastructure) envisions to significantly foster Europe’s leading position in embedded wireless systems and smart (mobile) environments such as vehicles, railway cars, airplanes and buildings. These environments comprise wireless sensor networks and wireless applications for citizens and professional users. Therefore the consortium introduces the concept of a “s ...
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Nanoelectronic COupled Problems Solutions (nanoCOPS)

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

Designs in nanoelectronics often lead to problems that are large to simulate and that include strong feedback couplings. Industry demands to include variability to guarantee quality and yield. It also requests to incorporate higher abstraction levels to allow for system simulation in order to shorten design cycles, while preserving accuracy. The nanoCOPS project considers the simulation of two pro ...
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Tomorrow's Elastic, Adaptive Mobility (TEAM)

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

TEAM aims at developing systems for participants in transportation networks, which help them to behave better – by explicitly taking into account the needs and constraints of other participants and the network itself. Focus will be placed upon decision-making in a time interval, above what is commonly associated with reactive safety (typically less than 5 seconds) and below long-term planning appl ...
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Environmental Sensors for Energy Efficiency (ESEE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

ESEE – Environment Sensors for Energy Efficiency targets the markets, were with highly reliable information regarding environmental conditions measures can be deducted, which safe the use of energy. The research will be performed on several different sensor technoglogy approaches and finally validated in a test environment, e.g. under the environmental conditions of an aircraft. In addition an app ...
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IMPROVING THE SAFETY AND MOBILITY OF VULNERABLE ROAD USERS THROUGH ITS APPLICATIONS (VRUITS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

In the past, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) success has been achieved primarily though equipment of the vehicle and infrastructure. The focus of these ITS has been on clean, safe and efficient mobility for vehicles.The Vulnerable Road User (VRU) has reaped fewer benefits of the ITS developments. While some projects have considered VRUs from a safety viewpoint, they often aimed to avoid or mit ...
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Energy Efficient Converters using GaN Power Devices (E2COGAN)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The E2COGaN project will target the demonstration of GaN-on-Si as a disruptive power device technology platform through the whole value chain up to demonstrators with high industrial, societal and environmental relevance. Its innovative character will be proven through a well-balanced and application specific trade-off between the “corner” benefits given by higher efficiency, higher switching freq ...
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DEvelopment platform for Safe and Efficient dRiVE (DESERVE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

According to a recent forecast published by ABI Research , a fast growth of the market of Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) is foreseen in the next five years. For example, in 2016 the overall annual market for Lane Departure Warning systems is expected to reach 22 million units/year (corresponding to 14,3 billion dollars). This market growth will be possible only through the reduction of ...
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Integrated Solutions for Agile Manufacturing in High-mix Semiconductor Fabs (INTEGRATE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

European IC manufacturers are on the way to become suppliers of customized products for OEM companies, which means high flexibility and product diversity. The project aims at conducting research to support the development of new manufacturing procedures, new organizations and new information and control tools to enable IC production lines to efficiently manage a high product and technology mix and ...
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Global Opportunities for SMEs in Electro-Mobility (GO4SEM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Europe has successfully extended its competencies in key enabling technologies for electric mobility in recent years, especially in the field of information and communication technologies, components and systems. Small and medium size companies have played a crucial role as sources of creativity at all stages of the supply chain. Given the new supply chains for electric mobility being established ...
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Design, Monitoring and Operation of Adaptive Networked Embedded Systems (DEMANES)

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

Large scale societal challenges require large scale monitoring and control solutions. Technological developments will make it possible to design and build these large systems. A major obstacle in realizing these systems is the lack of a versatile methodology to design and implement adaptive monitoring and control systems taking into account intrinsic properties of system of systems (decentralizati ...
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European Library-based flow of Embedded Silicon and test Instruments (ELESIS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Jun 1, 2015,

This project aims to increase European Integrated Circuits (IC) quality and competitiveness by developing generic test instruments and interfaces which will drasticly improve the testability and reliability of ICs.Presently, production testing of ICs is done by large and expensive Automated Test Equipment (ATE). A disadvantage of this approach is that while the production cost of a transistor decr ...
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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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Intelligent light management for OLED on foil applications (IMOLA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The main objective of the IMOLA project is the realization of a large-area OLED-based lighting module with built-in intelligent light management. Interesting applications are wall, ceiling and car dome lighting, where the light intensity can be adjusted uniformly or locally according to the time of the day or the position of a person, or even road lighting, where the light can follow a car.The fro ...
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ENERGY TO SMART GRID (E2SG)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 1, 2015,

The target of the overall E2SG project is to devise and design mechanisms and policies to assemble, monitor and control smart grids, i.e. a set of interconnected nodes whose primary goal is to generate, exchange and consume electrical energy in the most efficient and reliable way by exploiting distributed information that is sensed, transmitted and processed over the same set of nodes and links. F ...
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Internet of Energy for Electric Mobility (IoE)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The objective of Internet of Energy (IoE) is to develop hardware, software and middleware for seamless, secure connectivity and interoperability achieved by connecting the Internet with the energy grids. The application of the IoE will be the infrastructure for the electric mobility. The underlying architecture is of distributed Embedded Systems (ESs), combining power electronics, integrated circu ...
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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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ENERGY FOR A GREEN SOCIETY: FROM SUSTAINABLE HARVESTING TO SMART DISTRIBUTION. EQUIPMENTS, MATERIALS, DESIGN SOLUTIONS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS (ERG)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 1, 2014,

The ERG project focus on the solar energy supply chain, starting form photovoltaic cells (PV) and proceeding with energy extraction (harvesting) techniques, high efficiency power conversion and finally managing the energy distribution inside a smart grid, with the target of different classes of applications, from house to small area, as well as application specific “local grid” (healthcare, automo ...
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Agile RF Transceivers and Front-Ends for Future Smart Multi-Standard Communications Applications (ARTEMOS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 1, 2014,

This project aims at developing architecture and technologies for implementing agile radio frequency (RF) transceiver capacities in future radio communication products. These new architecture and technologies will be able to manage multi-standard (multi-band, multi-data-rate, and multi-waveform) operation with high modularity, low-power consumption, high reliability, high integration, low costs, l ...
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Energy Efficient and Intelligent Lighting Systems (ENLIGHT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 1, 2014,

The lighting industry is currently going through a radical transformation, driven by both the rapid progress of Solid State Lighting (SSL) and semiconductors technologies, and the changing societal needs like sustainability, energy efficiency and CO2 reduction.Therefore, we have to adapt rapidly by collaborating in a supportive open-innovation eco-system, which can drive research and development t ...
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Nanoelectronics for Electric Vehicle Intelligent Failsafe Drive Train (MOTORBRAIN)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 1, 2014,

The overall objective is to develop sustainable drive train topologies including control concepts for inherently safe electric vehicle power-train. The project focuses on significant steps ahead in terms of: 1. Development of smart electrical power-train concepts comprising high efficiency torque dense motors fully integrated with power converters and storage systems for modularity, compactness re ...
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High Efficiency Electronics Cooking Systems (HEECS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 1, 2014,

The HEECS project will answer the need to increase energy efficiency, developing a smart, controlled and highly efficient Solid state cooking device and give significant contributions to standards. The main project scope is to enhance energy efficiency by more than 25% in Microwave ovens (MWOs) across any range of food to be heated or cooked at home. According to this scope, breakthrough technolog ...
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Process Oriented Electrical Control Units for Electrical Vehicles Developed on a Multi-system Real-time Embedded Platform (POLLUX)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"The objective of POLLUX is to develop a distributed real time embedded systems platform for next generation electric vehicles, by using a component and programming-based design methodology. Reference designs and embedded systems architectures for high efficiency innovative mechatronics systems will be addressed with regard to requirements on composability, networking, security, robustness, diagno ...
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Efficient and Precise 3D Integration of Heterogeneous Microsystems from Fabrication to Assembly (FAB2ASM)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

...es (20 µm), ultra high speed assembly (40,000 UPH), and flip-chip capabilities, while ensuring industry proven reliability. Led by AALTO, this consortium of 5 research centers and 4 industries (ST, NXP, BX, 3DPLUS) will join force to fulfil this urgent and important need of industry in 3D integration, and will demonstrate the merits in three industry led demonstrators: one manufacturing equipment ...
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Efficient Silicon Multi-Chip System-in-Package Integration - Reliability, Failure Analysis and Test (ESIP)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 1, 2013,

The ENIAC JU project ESiP is addressing the issues of reliability, failure analysis and testing in innovative system-in-package (SiP) solutions. Highly integrated systems with greater miniaturisation and increased functionality open new markets and improve the quality of life through a wide range of applications. In particular, higher systems integration technologies using multi-chip packaging, th ...
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CO-design and Power Management in PLatform-based \nDesign Space EXploration (COMPLEX)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The main objective of the COMPLEX project is to increase the competitiveness of the European semiconductor, system integrator and EDA industry by addressing the problem of platform-based design space exploration under consideration of power and performance constraints early in the design process. High performance usually causes high power consumption. A main challenge in today's embedded system de ...
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Modeling, Control and Management of Thermal Effects in Electronic Circuits of the Future (THERMINATOR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Electronic devices of the latest generations, being those integrated circuits or discrete components, are often required to operate in harsh environmental conditions, where the temperature may reach over hundred degrees centigrade. Obviously, this has negative impact on several parameters of the electronic devices, ranging from slow-down and transient, recoverable errors to permanent failures and ...
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Information and Communication Technologies \nfor the Full Electric Vehicle (ICT4FEV)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

...s, regulations, business cases and R&D priorities, and to establish a European Organization / Think Tank for the FEV.The consortium is lead by VDI/VDE-IT and includes as members CRF (I), Siemens (D), NXP (NL), and EADS (F), as well as AVL List (A). Further organisations have been invited to contribute to the project as associate partners. ICT4FEV started on 1 May 2010 as the first project of the E ...
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Guardian Angels for a Smarter Life (Guardian Angels)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

Guardian Angels (GA) are future zero-power, intelligent, autonomous systems-of-systems featuring sensing, computation, and communication beyond human aptitudes. GA will assist humans from their infancy to old age in complex life situations and environments. Zero-power reflects system-of-systems ability to scavenge energy in dynamic environments by disruptive harvesting techniques. The project prep ...
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Smart Objects For Intelligent Applications (SOFIA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

"The mission of the SOFIA project is to create a semantic interoperability platform and selected set of vertical applications to form an embedded system based smart environment.We vision smart environment application and services where all the information user wants, needs and should know from local place is easily available. A key factor in these smart environments will be a common, open way of a ...
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