ADACORSA aims to provide European technology to render drones as a safe and efficient component of the mobility mix, with differentiated, safe and reliable capabilities in extended beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations. To reach this vision, the available technologies will be explored. This includes the option of transferring and extend automotive sense and control technologies, as well as commercial off-the-shelf communication technologies, applying innovative security features to reach adequate safety levels for modern unmanned aviation.

Edge computing is creating new possibilities in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. To create the AI foundations for future products in the edge IoT domain, the EU-funded ANDANTE project aims to leverage innovative IC (integrated circuits) accelerators based on artificial and spiking neural networks in order to build strong hardware and software platforms for application developments. Moreover, the resulting IoT devices will combine extreme power efficiency with robust neuromorphic computing capabilities. By achieving efficient cross-fertilisation between major European foundries, chip designers, system houses, application companies and research partners, the project will build and expand the European ecosystem around the definition, development, production and application of neuromorph...

An in-vehicle monitoring device will be able to measure the health status, diagnose faults and detect anomalies in electric, connected and automated vehicles. Bringing together stakeholders from the electronic components and systems (ECS) industry, standardisation and certification bodies as well as test field operators, insurance companies and researchers, the EU-funded ArchitectECA2030 project will design a validation framework that includes harmonised methods and tools for the quantification of residual risks. The goal of the project is to establish robust mission-validated traceable design of ECS, the quantification of an accepted residual risk of ECS for electric vehicles and increased end-user acceptance. The project will ultimately boost the European competitive advantage for zero e...

Building the fully European supplY chain on RFSOI, enabling New RF Domains for sensing, Communication, 5G and beyond BEYOND5 is first and foremost a technology project gathering most significant European actors covering the entire value chain from materials, semiconductor technologies, designs and components up to the systems. The goal of BEYOND5 is to build a completely European supply chain for Radio-Frequency Electronics enabling new RF domains for sensing, communication, 5G radio infrastructure and beyond. BEYOND5 strives to bring together mobile broadband (5G), the Internet of Things (IoT) and automation connectivity for self-driving cars in a single technology platform based on the most advanced SOI technologies manufactured in Europe, namely RFSOI and FDSOI.

By lowering the barriers for utilizing edge computing for artificial intelligence applications, BRAINE will open the door for European SMEs to leverage state of the art technologies, driving their development and growth as industry leaders in their sectors. The BRAINE project’s overall aim is to boost the development of the Edge framework and, specifically, energy efficient hardware and AI empowered software systems, capable of processing Big Data at the Edge, supporting security, data privacy and sovereignty.

Today, digitalisation and the employment of IoT-driven solutions in manufacturing are necessary in order to increase the competitiveness of European industries. However, in the case of several industries, ECS (electronics, components and systems) technologies must be specially designed to withstand combinations of severe thermal, mechanical and chemical stress related to the manufacturing processes. For this reason, the EU-funded CHARM project will develop condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, automation, real-time manufacturing control and optimisation as well as virtual prototyping systems demonstrators.

Looking more like modern art than geometric shapes produced by mathematical algorithms, fractals are patterns in which similar repetitions exist at progressively smaller or larger scales. One could draw parallels between these and consciousness or cognition, which too emerges from different levels of organisation from subcellular to system level. In fact, fractals have numerous applications in natural and artificial systems. The value of complex fractal networks lies largely in the complexity they represent with unique simplicity, retaining the main features of the system via nodes and the interactions among them. The EU-funded FRACTAL project is developing a computing node on which to base a cognitive fractal network capable of learning from and responding to its environment. It will supp...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are mutually beneficial: AI enhances the IoT by converting data into useful information, and the IoT improves AI through connectivity and data exchange. With this in mind, the EU-funded InSecTT project aims to bring the IoT and AI together. It will create trust in AI-based intelligent systems and solutions as a major part of the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), the natural evolution of AI and the IoT. It will achieve this by providing comprehensive cost-efficient solutions with intelligent, end-to-end secure, trustworthy connectivity and interoperability. Applying the project’s solutions to real-world settings will help to establish the EU as a hub of intelligent, secure and trustworthy systems for industrial applicatio...

iRel40 has the ultimate goal of improving reliability for electronic components and systems by reducing failure rates along the entire value chain. Trend for system integration, especially for heterogeneous integration, is miniaturization. Thus, reliability becomes an increasing challenge on device and system level and faces exceptional requirements for future complex applications. Applications require customer acceptance and satisfaction at acceptable cost. Reliability must be guaranteed when using systems in new and critical environments.

The overall objective of the IT2 project is to explore, develop and demonstrate technology options that are needed to realize 2nm CMOS logic technology extending the scaled Semiconductor technology roadmap to the next node in accordance to Moore’s law. These activities cover creation of Lithography equipment, new Processes & Modules and Metrology tools capable to create and deal with new 2nm node 3D structures, defect analysis, overlay and features.

The Moore4Medical project addresses emerging medical applications and technologies that offer significant new opportunities for patients as well as for industry including: bioelectronic medicines, organ-on-chip, drug adherence monitoring, smart ultrasound, radiation free interventions and continuous monitoring. The new technologies will help fighting the increasing cost of healthcare by: reducing the need for hospitalisation, helping to develop personalized therapies, and realising intelligent point-of-care diagnostic tools.

Smart complex systems have become of great significance particularly in healthcare and autonomous driving domains. The precision and timeliness of the decisions depend on the systems’ capacity to accurately understand individuals and their environment. The EU-funded NextPerception project will advance perception sensing technologies such as radar, LiDAR and time-of-flight cameras, improving and allowing them to better detect human conduct and physiological parameters. The project will develop next-generation smart perception sensors and improve the distributed intelligence model, aiming to establish adaptable, safe, reliable and dynamic human monitoring solutions for the health, well-being and automotive sectors. The new distributed intelligent model will be supported by specific instrumen...

The high-power requirements of ultra-fast charging stations give rise to special challenges when designing smart charging infrastructure. In support of Europe’s 2030 climate targets, the EU-funded PROGRESSUS project aims to introduce a next-generation smart grid demonstrated by the application example of a smart charging infrastructure integrating seamlessly into current smart-grid architecture concepts. To do so, it will research new efficient high-power converters that support bidirectional power flow. New DC microgrid management strategies for energy efficiency and service provision that consider renewable energy sources, storage and flexible loads will be investigated. It will also explore novel sensor types, inexpensive high-bandwidth communication technologies and security measures b...

Manufacturers of automated systems and their components have been allocating an enormous amount of time and effort in R&D activities. This effort translates into an overhead on the V&V (verification and validation) process making it time-consuming and costly. The ECSEL JU project VALU3S aims to evaluate the state-of-the-art V&V methods and tools, and design a multi-domain framework to create a clear structure around the components and elements needed to conduct the V&V process. The main expected benefit of the framework is to reduce time and cost needed to verify and validate automated systems with respect to safety, cyber-security, and privacy requirements. This is done through identification and classification of evaluation methods, tools, environments and concepts for V&V of automated s...

Research into artificial intelligence for industrial digitization. AI4DI is lead by Infineon, total costs: 29.6 million euros, EU funding: 8.9 million.

The new Ecsel project Applause will conduct research into advanced packaging for electronics, photonics and optics that can be produced cheaply in Europe. The project is lead by Swissbit, the total costs are 37.3 million euros, of which a maximum of 9.0 million in EU funding.

The Arrowhead Tools project aims for digitalisation and automation solutions for the European industry, which will close the gaps that hinder the IT/OT integration by introducing new technologies in an open source platform for the design and run-time engineering of IoT and System of Systems. The project will provide engineering processes, integration platform, tools and tool chains for the cost-efficient development of digitalisation, connectivity and automation system solutions in various fields of application.

Comp4drones aims to develop a technology framework for the safe application of autonomous drones. The project is led by Indra Sistemas, the costs amount to 28.5 million euros and the EU contributes a maximum of 8.4 million euros.

In recent years, Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) technologies have become a game changer in strategic sectors such as Automotive, Energy and Industry Automation, where Europe is a world leader. In fact, CPS is a key driver for the innovation capacity of European industries, large and small, generating economic growth and supporting meaningful jobs for citizens. CPS4EU proposes to address technical issues and organizational issues in an integrated way. Hence, CPS4EU promotes a high level of sharing, so that an operational ecosystem, with adequate skills and expertise all along the value chain can enable, at the end of the project, the European industry to lead strategic markets based on CPS technologies.

The new ways of driving and use a vehicle as expected in the scope of Smart Mobility asks for reliable and affordable versatile perception systems. Perception systems need to be accurate and reliable both for what happen in the cabin and out of the cabin. The driver and passenger monitoring needs to be improved as well as the environment surrounding monitoring, in all light and weather conditions. For both of these topics, the extension of current perception systems (mainly based on visible imaging, LIDAR and RADAR detection) to the thermal sensing is a must. Thermal sensing, especially in the LWIR (= 6 to 14 µm) bandwidth, provides valuable additional information and has to be considered as a must for the next generation of L4 (‘’Eyes off’’) and L5 (‘’Mind off’’) autonomous driving. In t...

MadeIn4 focuses on new metrology technologies for Industry 4.0. Applied Materials Israel is the project leader, with a total of 126.2 million euros involved and a EU subsidy of 29.4 million.

Newcontrol will look at integrated control systems for highly automated vehicles, with special attention to cognitive perception, fault tolerance, planning. Infineon is the leader of the 48.4 million euro project. The maximum European subsidy is 14.0 million.

Under the leadership of ASML, European companies and research institutes are starting a pilot study into the integration of 3-nm semiconductor technology. The total costs of this Pin3s project amount to 141.6 million euros, of which a maximum of 30.0 million from the EU subsidy.

Power2power investigates the next generation of silicon-based power solutions for a sustainable reduction of carbon consumption. The project - led by Infineon - focuses on mobility, industrial applications and the energy grid, has a cost of € 74.3 million and receives € 17.0 million from Europe.

Massive adoption of computing in all aspects of human activity has led to unprecedented growth in the amount of data generated. Machine learning has been employed to classify and infer patterns from this abundance of raw data, at various levels of abstraction. Among the algorithms used, brain-inspired, or “neuromorphic”, computation provides a wide range of classification and/or prediction tools.

UltimateGaN searches for new applications of gallium nitride. Lead party: Infineon, costs: 48.4 million euros, EU funding: 14.1 million.

Innovative technologies in the field of optical sensors and short, medium and long-range 3D devices to demonstrate their value in several key applications in the automotive, security, smart buildings, mobile robotics for smart cities and Industry 4.0 sectors. VIZTA project also focuses on multimodal 2D/3D imaging, proposing a monolithic integration that would enable smaller, cheaper and more efficient systems. The innovation of VIZTA would improve significantly the multimodal 2D/3D imaging current systems which use two separate sensors to capture the depth and the colour image.

The fifth generation (5G) communications technologies will provide internet access to a wide range of applications: from billions of low data rate sensors to high resolution video streaming. The 5G network is designed to scale across these different use cases and will use different radio access technologies for each one. To support very high data rates, 5G will use wide bandwidth spectrum allocation at mm-wave frequencies. The offered bandwidth at these frequencies (above 24 GHz) is more than 10 times as large as that in the lower bands (sub 6 GHz). However, the move to mm-waves comes at a cost – increased path loss, which makes it extremely challenging to provide coverage. A partial remedy is to use beamforming to direct the radio energy to a specific user by means of special acti...

Farming is facing many economic challenges in terms of productivity and cost-effectiveness, as well as an increasing labour shortage partly due to depopulation of rural areas. Reliable detection, accurate identification and proper quantification of pathogens affecting both plant and animal health, must be kept under control to reduce unnecessary costs, trade disruptions and even human health risks. AFarCloud addresses the urgent need for a holistic and systematic approach. It will provide a distributed platform for autonomous farming, which will allow the integration and cooperation of Cyber Physical Systems in real-time for increased agriculture efficiency, productivity, animal health, food quality and reduced farm labour costs. This platform will be integrated with fa...

Images play a central role in human perception and understanding of our environment. In the same way, Cyber-Physical Systems need visual context and awareness to make autonomous and correct decisions, and eventually take Appropriate actions. However, advanced image and video processing is compute intensive and challenging. FitOptiVis will balance power demand versus performance of the increasingly complex distributed configurations in Cyber-Physical Systems, reflected in the growing number of sensors, actuators and other smart devices, their growing autonomy, and the increased need for performance. This complexity increases even more when multiple heterogeneous sensor inputs are combined for analysis and through integration of both generic and specialised devices. On top of that, CPS...

The European and global automotive industry currently faces the challenge of reducing CO2 emissions, since improving air quality and avoiding global warming is high priority on the agendas not only in Europe, but also in the rest of the world. With a share of approximately 25%, the transportation system in Europe contributes significantly to the total greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. By a tremendous increase of affordable and efficient electric and hybrid vehicles, Europe can pave the way for a decarbonized transport system. Nevertheless, this is only one of many important measures that are needed to fight global warming. HiPERFORM will directly address this topic with the introduction of wide band-gap power electronics in the drivetrain of electric vehicles. The project...

The ongoing digital transformation of the European industry will create enormous opportunities for business and society. Researchers and business leaders recognize the role of digital technology which is shifting from supporting processes towards becoming the enabler of fundamental business innovation and disruption. However, companies aiming to benefit from digitization will have to radically re-think not only how they can apply digital technology, but moreover on how they can increase their level of digital maturity to better integrate their processes - most notably development and production - within a future digital value chain. iDev40 introduces seamlessly integrated ECS development processes, safe and secure digital automation workflows, interoperable and inter-organizational n...

For the last years, electronic components become more and more widespread in the automotive industry. Today they create a superior value for the final customer and represent an important vector of differentiation in the industry. The sharing economy model, which drives innovation strategies in Smart mobility, will further increase the need for safe, cost efficient, secure, reliable and unhackable operations. This will enlarge costs of electronics and software in the total cost of a vehicle. OCEAN12 will bring very concrete technological solutions and corresponding demonstrators for this problem. Based on the innovative Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator (FD-SOI) technology, the project will develop new processors and applications design, which will leverage FD-SOI to offer the...

About 10% of the western population will, at a certain age, be taken to hospital for heart surgery, such as treatment of an arrhythmia or a heart valve replacement. Fortunately, most of these interventions can now be done using minimally invasive techniques, assisted by a host of smart imaging and sensing catheters, that are the “eyes and ears” of the surgeon directly at the point of intervention. Many clinical studies have underlined their value in improving the outcome of interventions and in reducing cost. However present devices from traditional catheter manufacturers are made with outdated 20th century technology, requiring extensive and costly manual assembly. This is where POSITION-II steps in; the next generation of smart catheters developed within the project will: - Use...

Fully automated driving is one major enabler to mas- ter the Grand Societal Challenges of safe, clean and efficient mobility, and autonomous driving will affect society and most disruptively change the automotive industry as we know it today. Consequently it will also greatly impact the semiconductor industry and open new market opportunities, since semiconductors play an indispensable role as enablers for automated vehicles. Fail-operational behaviour is essential in the automation chain, in order to handle safety-critical situations on its own. State-of-the-art approaches cannot reach this, in part due to a lack of reliable environment perception and sensor fusion. PRYSTINE will realize Fail-operational Urban Surround Perception (FUSION) which is based on robust Rad...

At the onset of the 21 century, the semiconducting pure silicon (Si) chip launched the revolution of electronics and computerisation that massive influenced life, as we know it; since then Electronic Components and Systems (ECS) are a high-growth area, with a worldwide market growing faster than the industry average. Pure Silicon technology is about to reach its performance limit and the ECS industrial race has so far been limited only to increasing wafer size (12” and over), where Asia and USA are winning by the most aggressive competition. A new promising technology arises: Silicon Carbide (SiC). Compared with Silicon, SiC power devices have significantly better characteristics, make more efficient energy conversion devices possible. The lower on-resistance for the sam...

Fully autonomous vehicles and robotic surgery machines have enormous potential to change society However the combination of safety security & privacy of connected and automated systems is still a concern in multiple application domains for many consumers in Europe. As the trust to adopt these technologies is not yet here for many potential users, the industry and research communities need to work on an answer to ensure that these concerns are no longer roadblocks for further evolution in the transport and medical sectors. The high-level goal of SECREDAS is to develop software for validating architecting methodologies, reference architectures, components and suitable integration, as well as verification approaches for automated systems in different domains. These will combin...

The overall objective of TAPES3 is to support the continuation of Moore’s law in line with the worldwide industry roadmap. Focus is on exploring and preparing the next innovations required to bring the industry’s capability in the fields of lithography patterning, metrology mask infrastructure and process modules to the levels required for creating 3nm products. To enable the industry to keep on Moore’s law projection, 3nm pilot manufacturing capability needs to be ready by 2022. This objective requires not only bringing EUV lithography resolution, focus control, overlay performance and productivity to the next level, but also paying attention to process, device architecture and design solutions to effectively reap the benefits of 3nm technology at system level. Solutions requi...

WAKeMeUP will set-up a pilot line for advanced microcontrollers with embedded non-volatile memory, and design and manufacturing for the prototyping of many innovative applications. Driven by the requirements of demanding end applications, especially for decreasing the power consumption, the project will target the industrialisation of the embedded Phase Change Memory (ePCM) technology built on top of the FDSOI 28nm logic process pilot line. WAKeMeUP will build on the already defined microcontrollers with 40nm embedded flash technology in order to establish a solid manufacturing platform. Additional developments include the integration of memory, power management, connectivity, strong security on the same chip. The WAKeMeUP consortium will study alternative memory soluti...

Tsystems engineered in modern society are ex- tremely complex and this makes it increasing difficult to provide assurance for interrelated system quality attributes including safety, security and performance. This is particularly the case for real-time systems where human life is at stake, such as in the transporta- tion, aerospace, medical and industrial control domains. Interacting, non-functional system properties are diffi- cult to track and balance across and within all phases of the product lifecycle. Design trade-offs are normal, for instance when security mechanisms impact the perfor- mance of some subsystems, which in turn may be es- sential for system safety. Often, a balance found early in the lifecycle must later be changed during the detailed design phase. The problem ...

Automated driving is a disruptive technology which opens the door to future multi-billion markets providing business opportunities to value chains in automotive and semiconductor industry.The European industry has leading competitive strength in the development and manufacturing of highly reliable electro-mechanical systems. In order to preserve this capability Europe needs to setup European standards for high level control such as real-time computing or big data processing. In order to respond on the global challenge AutoDrive has gathered Europe’s leading semiconductor companies, suppliers, OEMs, and research institutes committed to create a pan-European eco-system, which has the critical mass to initiate standards and provides the components and subsystems for automated driving. Current...

CONNECT aims to provide concepts, technologies and components that support enhanced integration of renewables and storage combined with intelligent control of the power flow. The demand for primary energy and the carbon dioxide emissions will be reduced and a decentralized energy infrastructure will be facilitated by these solutions. CONNECT investigates new concepts and technologies for power conversion that will be specifically developed for bidirectional power exchange with the grid and for controllable power flow in order to support the extended integration of renewables like PV and local storage. Power quality optimization will be explored in order to avoid unnecessary energy flows in the grid. The enhanced capabilities of the power conversion fit seamlessly to the smart energy man...

The EuroPAT-MASIP project will reinforce the European semiconductor manufacturing position through focusing in the semiconductor and MEMS packaging ecosystem. Semiconductor packaging, assembly and test involve most of the semiconductor value chain, ranging from material suppliers to software design and packaging foundries to test houses. EuroPAT-MASIP will consolidate and extend the leadership in semiconductor processing know-how, by developing and fostering packaging related technological and manufacturing building blocks, serving different (emerging) industrial sectors. EuroPAT-MASIP will develop: Modelling, design and simulation of packaging related key features and challenges The key packaging technologies, equipment and materials Heterogeneous (3D) integration of the smart system...

Smart mechatronic systems, a specific class of cyber-physical systems (CPS), face increasing constraints on size, speed, precision, adaptability diagnostic capability and connectivity. At the same time, they need to accommodate ever more demanding smart cognitive features. Addressing these constraints is essential for building smart and reliable production System-of-Systems (SoS). These new SoS demand highly capable, flexible, stable and reliable motion control infrastructures which cannot be delivered by outdated commercial automation products. I-MECH will provide augmented intelligence for wide-range of cyber-physical systems having actively controlled moving elements. This implies new demands also on bottom layers of the employed motion control system, which cannot be h...

European industry faces stiff globalcompetition. The electronic systems become more and more complex and demand modern engineering practices to tackle productivity and quality. The model-based technologies promise significant productivity gains, which have been proven in several studies. However there is a need for more research and development to scale these technologies for real-life industrial projects and provide advantages in runtime. MegaM@Rt will create a framework incorporating methods and tools for continuous development and validation leveraging the advantages of scalable model-based methods to provide benefits in significantly improved productivity, quality, and predictability of large and complex industrial systems. The project brings the model-driven engineering to th...

Micro-transfer-printing, or µTP technology, is a key enabler for smart systems integration thanks to its various unique features. The know-how and processing capability for the μTP technology needs to be transferred from a research level to an industrially relevant environment in order to make use of the various advantages of the μTP technology. To achieve this objective a μTP tool used for research application with manual-handling, will be re-designed and adopted to be suitable for industrial manufacturing. MICROPRINCE will create a pilot line for heterogeneous integration of smart systems by micro-transfer-printing (μTP) in a semiconductor foundry manufacturing environment. Functional components like processed III/V devices, optical filters, and special sensors will be transfer ...

Productive4.0 is an ambitious innovation project with partners from academia and industry, led by Infineon Technologies. As a brain pool, the framework is meant up the potential of Digital Industry and maintain a leadership position of these industries in Europe. “Industry4.0” promises smarter and more flexible production, better use of resources, new standards and improved work environment. Technology push for the industry in Europe Productive4.0 will empower industrial actors to develop and produce their products at a faster pace in a completely new way. The aim is to clear the path for technologies that enable integrating knowledge between different parts of a production’s systems – both within companies and between actors. Preparing the digital transformation New techno...

R3-POWERUP will push through the new generation of 300mm Pilot Line Facility for Smart Power technology in Europe. Through electric mobility and industrial power efficiency, the project will enable the European industry to set the world standards for innova- tive and competitive solutions for critical societal chal- lenges, such as energy saving, CO2 Reduction, as well as sustainable environment. Smart power ICs are key enabling components for applications in which Europe is playing a leading role: from mid-power automotive, to industrial power, battery management systems for HEV, FEV and electric bikes, domotics, LED lighting for both indoor and outdoor, computer and industrial peripherals. Power and RF nanoelectronics represents about 30% of the industrial semico...

Creating trust in wireless solutions and increasing their social acceptance are major challenges in achieving the full potential of the Internet of Things (IoT). SCOTT will provide comprehensive cost-efficient solutions for end-to-end secure, trustworthy wireless connectivity and interoperability, to bridge the last mile to market implementation. SCOTT will not just deal with 'things that are connected', but with 'trustable things that securely communicate', i.e. things interconnected by dependable wireless technology and valuing the end-users' privacy rules. SCOTT uses a standardised multi-domain reference architecture, created in a predecessor project, DEWI and its “Bubble concept”. SCOTT has a clearly use-case driven approach, with 15 use cases from different areas ...

The way humans interact with machines (Human Machine Interfaces) has evolved, from single push buttons, keyboards & mouse to touchscreens. However touching a screen can be inconvenient or if devices could be controlled with a simple gesture? Through voice commands, digital sound modulation and face recognition, the user interface technology will ultimately come to understand human ‘body language’.Never before was a user experience so rich! Gesture recognition applications already exist, but mostof them based on a video or a camera. Plus, they require lots of energy, they are expensive, and they can infringe our privacy SILENSE will focus on using smart acoustic technologies – ultrasound in particular - the advantages of which are immense: they use a much simp...

The TAKEMI5 project discovers, develops and demonstrates lithographic, metrology, process and integration technologies enabling module integration for the 5nm node. The project enables innovations to support the expected growth of needs of private persons, companies, public organizations and to provide better options to address the main societal challenges and the internet of thing infrastructure. This main objective is realised with available EUV/NA 0.33 scanners that are optimized for mix & match with existing DUV/NA 1.35 scanners, and with system design, development and integration of a new hyper NA EUV lithography tool to enable more single exposure patterning for the 5nm node to create complex integrated circuits. Process steps to achieve module in...

TARANTO aims to break down technological barriers standing in the way of the next generation BiCMOS technology platforms, combining improved radio-frequency performance of Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBT) with the high level of integration. High-speed, high-data rate and affordable communication systems, for example 5G, that are enabled by TARANTO are mandatory in, for example, intelligent, automated transport systems. The superior radio-frequency performance of SiGe HBT makes BiCMOS technologies a key enabler for many applications which require (RF) front ends with the high computational power and low power consumption. The main technology objective is to develop HBTs offer- ing high maximum frequency (Fmax: 600GHz) built into very high density CMOS proce...

WInSiC4AP will develop reliable, efficient and cost-effective Silicon Carbide (SiC) technology bricks for applications addressing social challenges and market segments, such as automotive, avionics, railway and security where Europe is a recognized global leader. Silicon Carbide (SiC) represents the forthcoming alternative to Silicon (Si) to get a higher efficiency and a higher power density in electronic devices. SiC devices have the capability to withstand high currents and high break-down voltages, and to operate at high temperatures. Hence, power systems based on SiC will exhibit a much higher efficiency and power density also with smaller device size and lower losses for passive components (higher switching frequency) and miniaturized auxiliary cooling systems...

The objective of the 3DAM project is to develop a new generation of metrology and characterization tools and methodologies enabling the development of the next semiconductor technology nodes. As nano-electronics technology is moving beyond the boundaries of (strained) silicon in planar or finFETs, new 3D device architectures and new materials bring major metrology and characterization challenges which cannot be met by pushing the present techniques to their limits. 3DAM will be a path-finding project which supports and complements several existing and future ECSEL pilot-line projects and is linked to the MASP area 7.1 (subsection More Moore). Innovative demonstrators and methodologies will be built and evaluated within the themes of metrology and characterization of 3D device architect...

AMASS (Architecture-driven, Multi-concern and Seamless Assurance and Certification of Cyber-Physical Systems) will create and consolidate the de-facto European-wide open tool platform, ecosystem, and self-sustainable community for assurance and certification of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in the largest industrial vertical markets including automotive, railway, aerospace, space, energy. The ultimate goal of AMASS is to lower certification costs for CPS in face of rapidly changing features and market needs.

ASTONISH will deliver breakthrough imaging and sensing technologies for monitoring, diagnosis and treatment applications by developing smart optical imaging technology that extends the use of minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment and allows for unobtrusive health monitoring. The project will integrate miniaturized optical components, data processing units and SW applications into smart imaging systems that are less obtrusive, cheaper, more reliable and easier to use than state of the art systems. This results into 6 demonstrators by which the technologies will be validated and which allow for pre-clinical testing in the scope of the project.

The goal of the project is to develop a standardized method to create multi-domain LED compact models from testing data. The objectives are: Define set of LED model equations that can be implemented into a FEM/CFD tool, for the purpose of self-consistent multi-domain simulation of LEDs thermal, electrical and light output characteristics. Provide interfacing between measurement tools, modelling tools and simulation tools to allow the application of the compact LED models. Prove the benefits of the use of compact models in the development process to reduce development times and cost. This will lead to an industry standard in the lighting industry.

The focus of the project DENSE is on automated driving and its key enabling technology, environment perception. Consequently, project’s main objective is to develop and validate an all-weather sensor suit for traffic services, driver assistance and automated driving. Extended driving environment perception capability with smart, reliable and cost-efficient sensing system is necessary to meet the targets of all future driver assistance system applications. These targets need to be met regardless of location, weather or time of the day. Only by means of reliable and robust sensing system upcoming automated driving will be possible. The new sensor suit is based on a smart integration of three different technologies: (i) Radio radar, 77 GHz-81 GHz, (MIMO Radar); (ii) Gated short wave infrared ...

ENABLE-S3 will pave the way for accelerated application of highly automated and autonomous systems in the mobility domains automotive, aerospace, rail and maritime as well as in the health care domain. Virtual testing, verification and coverage-oriented test selection methods will enable validation with reasonable efforts. The resulting validation framework will ensure Europeans Industry competitiveness in the global race of automated systems with an expected market potential of 60B€ in 2025. Project results will be used to propose standardized validation procedures for highly automated systems (ACPS).

The goal of EnSO is to develop and consolidate a unique European ecosystem in the field of autonomous micro energy sources (AMES) supporting Electronic European industry to develop innovative products, in particular in IoT markets. EnSO will bring to market innovative energy solutions inducing definitive differentiation to the electronic smart systems. Generic building block technologies will be customizable. EnSO manufacturing challenges will develop high throughput processes.

The EU has set the stage to empower semiconductor manufacturing in Europe being one of the key drivers for innovation and employment and creator for answers to the challenges of the modern society. Aim of IoSense is to boost the European competitiveness of ECS industries by increasing the pilot production capacity and improving Time-to-Market for innovative microelectronics, accomplished by establishing three fully connected semiconductor pilot lines in Europe: two 200mm frontend (Dresden, Regensburg) and one backend (Regensburg) lines networking with existing highly specialized manufacturing lines.

The project will develop and demonstrate the key building blocks of IoT ULP systems driven by the applications in the medical, agricultural, domestics and security domains. This will include development of high performance, energy efficient and cost effective technology platform, flexible design ecosystem (including IP and design flow), changes in architectural and power management to reduced energy consumption, security blocks based on PUF and finally the System of Chip and System in Package memory banks and processing implementations for IoT sensor node systems.

The REFERENCE project aims to leverage a European leading edge Radio Frequency (RF) ecosystem based on RF Silicon On Insulator (SOI) disruptive technology, perceived as the most promising to address performance, cost and integration needs for RF Front End Modules (FEMs). The project targets to develop innovative solutions from material, engineered substrates, process, design, metrology to system integration capable to address the unresolved 4G+ requirements for RF FEMs (data rate >1Gb/s) and pave the way to 5G.

SafeCOP will provide an approach to the safety assurance of CO-CPS, enabling thus their certification and development. The project will define a platform architecture and will develop methods and tools, which will be used to produce safety assurance evidence needed to certify cooperative functions. SafeCOP will extend current wireless technologies to ensure safe and secure cooperation. SafeCOP will also contribute to new standards and regulations, by providing certification authorities and standardization committees with the scientifically validated solutions needed to craft effective standards extended to also address cooperation and system-of-systems issues.

The SemI40 project responds to the urgent need of increasing the competitiveness of the Semiconductor manufacturing industry in Europe through establishing smart, sustainable, and integrated ECS manufacturing. SemI40 will further pave the way for serving highly innovative electronic markets with products powered by microelectronics “Made in Europe”. SemI40's ambition is to implement technical solutions on TRL level 4-8 into the pilot lines of the industry partners. Challenging use cases will be implemented in real manufacturing environment considering also their technical, social and economic impact to the society, future working conditions and skills needed.

The main objective of the TAKE5 project is the demonstration of 5nm patterning in line with the industry needs and the ITRS roadmap in the Advanced Patterning Center at the imec pilot line using innovative design and technology co-optimization, layout and device architecture exploration, and comprising demonstration of a lithographic platform for EUV technology, advanced process and holistic metrology platforms and new materials. A lithography scanner will be developed based on EUV technology to achieve the 5nm module patterning specification. Metrology platforms need to be qualified for 5nm patterning of 1D, 2D and 3D geometries with the appropriate precision and accuracy. For the 5nm technology modules new materials will need to be introduced. Introduction of these new materials brings ...

3Ccar aims to address the vehicle control architecture and its subsystems in order to achieve the next level of efficiency. Therefore 3Ccar is working on advanced system designs with high local smartness (computing power, sensing abilities, modularity) and far extended network bandwidth to enable smart system partitioning. In consequence the system complexity of EVs is going to be reduced with positive effects on costs as well as maintenance, monitoring and update functionalities.

ADMONT supplies system integrators with a modular system for combining distinct technologies at wafer level while providing a vital and necessary platform for new products. This encompasses not only process technology but also design and modelling capabilities. ADMONT aims to reduce manufacturing times for base components to 75% and reduce system costs to 70% of what can be achieved today. Electronics-based products will benefit from increased innovation speed and hence accelerated time to market. This will bring the benefits of innovation to the full value chain, both from a production perspective and from an end user perspective.

To ensure that Europe remains at the forefront of image capture due to the diversity of applications that support many key industries, EXIST will research and develop new technologies for innovative image sensors, needed in the next plus one (N+2) generation of imaging devices used in several application domains. EXIST’s technologies and demonstrators will enable a number of new vision systems addressing many societal and business needs, such as broadcast cameras with unprecedented image quality and enhanced viewer experience, enhanced quality control in a smart production environment, improved healthcare/medical applications, improved safety through more sensitive and versatile gas detection systems for industrial applications, and more.

In the InForMed project an integrated pilot line for medical devices will be established, covering the complete innovation chain from technology concept to system qualification. It will include micro-fabrication, assembly and even the fabrication of smart catheters. Uniquely, the integrated pilot line is hosted by a large industrial end-user, and is specifically targeted and equipped to bridge the gap in the landscape of micro-fabrication of medical devices between concept creation and full-scale production.

The project will develop a Proactive Maintenance Service Platform Architecture based on Cyber Physical Systems that enable “Collaborative Maintenance Ecosystems”. MANTIS will contribute to improving companies' asset availability, and therefore their competitiveness, growth and sustainability by a number of relevant developments, such as reduction of the impact of maintenance on productivity and costs, improvement of the quality of the maintenance service and therefore of products, increase of sustainability by preventing material loss and reworking, and many others. The scope of technical innovation developed by MANTIS will include, among others, smart sensors, actuators and cyber physical systems capable of local pre-processing, as well as robust communication systems for harsh environ...

RobustSENSE develops a robust and reliable sensor platform for automated and autonomous driving. This platform overcomes the present problem of environmental perception systems failing in adverse conditions, and provides enhanced sensing performance. Such an improved platform is needed to achieve the necessary reliability of automated and autonomous driving functions for safe operation under all driving conditions.

The primary goal of the SWARMs project is to expand the use of underwater and surface vehicles (AUVs, ROVs, USVs) to facilitate the conception, planning and execution of maritime and offshore operations and missions. This will reduce the operational costs, increase the safety of tasks and of involved individuals, and expand the offshore sector.