Tag Archives: Fraunhofer

Infineon has had its forthcoming TC4x automotive microcontrollers cleared for safe AI processing by the Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems (IKS). “Embedded AI is becoming increasingly important for safety-critical real-time applications,” said Infineon. “However, this also creates new requirements and standards that must be considered during the complete product lifecycle.” The TC4x family includes ‘PPU’ (parallel processing unit), an AI-accelerator ...

Faster on-die memory access for AI processing could spring from a collaboration between network-on-chip intellectual property company Arteris and the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Fraunhofer IESE). Memory access is important with neural network algorithms as their execution requires large quantities of data to be transferred between processing elements and memory, increasing emphasis on the performance of the access ...

Solar cells tend to work better with an anti-reflection coating, and perovskite solar cells are no exception. Planar magnesium fluoride anti-reflection coatings work on perovskite cells, but could the nano-scale surface texturing used on some silicon cells be applied to pervoskite cells? This was the question asked at the University of Warsaw, which worked with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar ...

The Dresden Research Institute has developed a CMOS-integrated micromirror array in which each mirror can be individually deflected around two tilting axes (right). There are 512 x 320 individually addressable mirrors, each 48μm across. Fraunhofer IPMS is handling commercialisation, and said that the mirrors enable “the redirection of light beams or the generation and control of 2D intensity profiles and ...

Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS has had a version of its 32bit AIRisc RISC-V microcontroller intellectual property certified by by TÜV SGS to the ISO 26262 ASIL-D automotive safety standard. Called AIRisc-Safety, it can now be licensed from the organisation, which also offers customised versions for asic and FPGA integration. “Certification means that industrial customers directly receive a ...

To fend-off quantum computer based attacks on secured digital identities, four German organisations are attempting to guarantee long-term security using quantum random numbers and post-quantum cryptography on classical hardware. “We also want to secure network communication, signatures and database encryption using post-quantum cryptography,” said Alexander Noack (photo) of project member Fraunhofer IPMS. Another goal of the project is to develop ...

To defend against quantum computer based hacking, Infineon and partners have revealed an electronic passport demonstrator that meets the security requirements of the quantum computing era, claims Infineon. “Today we are launching the encryption procedures which will be needed to repel quantum computer attacks of tomorrow,” said company head of identification products Maurizio Skerlj. “Working together with our collaboration partners ...

Kymeta, a satellite communications company, has partnered with Intelsat, the satellite services provider, to demo satellite-enabled 5G connectivity for mobile comms. The demonstration involved Kymeta’s electronically steered flat-panel u8 antenna using Intelsat’s integrated satellite and terrestrial network. The companies described it as the first test of its kind in a mobile environment. The demonstration was carried out by the research ...

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft are funding five trilateral projects for the transfer of knowledge from DFG-funded basic research to industry. The collaboration between universities, Fraunhofer institutes and companies is being supported with a total of around €4.5 million over three years. One of the projects is the “MEMS-based parametric amplifier for range optimization of ...

Fraunhofer IMS and Arduino have release a stand-alone C-programmed AI framework for Arduino, allowing battery-powered AI hardware to be created without needing a link to the cloud. Sensor data can be processed directly in the device. Training data can be captured directly on the device and used for training. Called AIfES, “the high optimisation of the framework allows even the 8bit controller of the ...