Projects

Gas sensors are crucial in personal and industrial monitoring to analyze personal exposure to air pollutants or to critical gases, to control product quality, such as in the food industry, and in health care. AMUSENS aims to revolutionize gas sensor technology by developing a platform with flexible selectivity to various gas environments. This is achieved by combining a multi-pixel approach with artificial intelligence, which adapts data analysis to specific applications. Using metal oxide sensing materials on a micro-hotplate platform, our solution addresses the current limitations in gas selectivity. We employ original additive manufacturing techniques for local liquid-phase and gas-phase depositions to expand the range of available materials and ensure sustainability in wafer-scale processing. Artificial intelligence accelerates material selection and enables data fusion for precise gas analysis. This adaptable architecture, with its flexible material choices and programmable AI protocols, aims to enhance the resilience of the gas sensor industry, reducing time to market and improving product performance.

ForRES aims to develop software, techniques and methods to extract, reverse engineer, analyze and implement invasive attacks on state-of-the-art semiconductors, which are almost exclusively used in modern electronic devices. The project will expand on existing knowledge to produce a practical workflow that is usable in the law enforcement context and which will ensure the future effectiveness of European law enforcement agencies (LEAs)

6GTandem presents a dual-frequency distributed MIMO approach for future 6G applications.

Sixth-generation technology (6G) is expected to transform today’s society, enhance businesses, increase research possibilities, create new technologies, advance communication systems and impact wide aspect of sectors.

6GTandem represents a part of this crucial change. By co-designing novel dual-frequency operation and a new highly integrated and distributed radiostripe system it will create superior value with respect to energy, service availability and cost of structure.

6GTandem is coordinated by Technikon Forschungs- und Planungsgesellschaft mbH. With our strong team of industrial, academic and research partners we trust that 6GTandem will deliver unique results in the highly promising of direction dual-frequency networks with distributed deployments, which will fuel R&D output and eventual new products.

6GTandem aims to:

• achieve competitive advantage by defining and shaping the future of 6G infrastructures in Europe,
• contributing to the long-term impact of smart, flexible and scalable Radio Access Network (RAN) evolution,
• offering hardware products that will reach a unique level in terms of Radio Frequency (RF).

The main outcome expected by 6GTandem is to overcome the limitations currently present in the performance, cost-, spectrum- and energy-efficiency of radio frequency (RF). 6GTandem will enable competitive advantage by defining and shaping the future of 6G infrastructures in Europe and contribute to the long-term impact of smart, flexible and scalable radio access network (RAN) that will strengthen Europe’s position in wireless network and semiconductor industry.

The AddMorePower project aims to increase EU shares in GaN and SiC production, enabling a more resilient European power electronics industry.
Its main goal is to advance X-ray and electron-probe related characterization techniques of power semiconductor technology as well as correlated modelling techniques to overcome the crucial crystal defects characterization constrain that is currently limiting the semiconductors manufactures and the whole power electronics industry.

The DYNAMO project will take the next step towards developing a platform that will improve resilience of the businesses and help avoid systemic collops caused by cyberattacks. The aim is to help absorb potential losses and recover quickly to ensure the continuity of the services provided, which are essential for many industries, like the supply of energy, provision of health services and transportation.

The PhotoGeNIC team is driven by providing high performance and reliable laser technology to be integrated in related technology. The consortium’s ambition is to compare and demonstrate the advantages of the proposed solutions over the ones in use until now. As Ge-based VCSEL is a new technology, which is urgently under development we aim to focus on its s non-toxic and infinitely recyclable feature to produce remarkable technology that will yield higher profit and decrease production losses.

ORSHIN strives to help improve the security of systems based on open-source components. The project aims to contribute to the open-source code base in two main aspects: first, by proposing a security-aware design methodology based on open-source components, and second, by helping open-source projects to improve their security posture. Once the trusted life cycle is established, the advances are able to improve the overall security of IoT devices.

CONNECT’s main objective is to build a trust management framework, in the context of Connected Cars and Autonomous Driving, improving the quality and speed of decision making through the assessment of dynamic trust relationships utilising knowledge and processing capacity at the backend of the cloud to make faster and safer decisions.

REALHOLO will pave the way for main stream mixed reality environments by using micro mirror arrays to provide the best possible experience for the user without physiological side effects like eye fatigue, misjudgement, motion sickness and accommodation-vergence conflict, which are known from alternative and intermediate technologies such as stereoscopic 3D.

The EXFILES project will develop new tools for law enforcement agencies to extract data and related evidence from mobile devices. Led by a consortium of law enforcement agencies, universities and cybersecurity companies, the project will focus on software, hardware and combined methods. It will also consider the ethical and legal aspects of research and exploitation. The findings will be particularly useful for the next generation of forensic experts.

Strongly guided by concrete challenges forming an ambitious Cybersecurity Research & Innovation Roadmap, SPARTA will tackle hard innovation challenges, leading the way in building transformative capabilities and forming a world-leading cybersecurity competence network across the EU.

The project team will focus on identifying effective personalized medicine for paediatric cancers and will address a multitude of challenges. To meet these challenges, a comprehensive computational effort to combine knowledge base, machine-learning, and mechanistic models to predict optimal standard and experimental therapies for each child will be proposed.

Occupant safety and the increasing appeal of autonomous automobiles are the driving forces behind the rapidly growing need for smart electronic systems based on the latest semiconductor, microsystem and nanoelectronics technologies. The Car2TERA project will focus of two areas of research and development: in-cabin radar and onboard, high speed data communications.

The SERENA project proposes an innovative technology enabling high-power and high-efficiency through the integration of Gallium Nitride on Silicon (GaN-on-Si) semiconductor technology offering unprecedented efficiency and output power 10 times more than SiGe/CMOS.

The goal is to enable a smooth transition from current TPM environments, based on existing widely used and standardised cryptographic techniques, to systems providing enhanced security through QR cryptographic functions, including secure authentication, encryption and signing functions.

EPIC aims to develop a new generation of Forward-Error-Correction (FEC) codes to enable practical wireless Tb/s link technology—corresponding to a 10x–100x throughput improvement over the SoA. The EPIC concept and methodology is shaped by the key finding that routine progress in silicon technology in the next decade will not be sufficient to allow FEC implementations to break the Tb/s barrier; Tb/s FEC will require not only help from silicon technology but also major innovations in FEC algorithm design and implementation domains.

DECODER stands for DEveloper COmpanion for Documented and annotatEd code Reference. The project participants develop an open source Integrated Development Environment dedicated to improve the efficiency of software development and maintenance and the quality of software in medium criticality systems, such as in IoT, cloud computing and HPC.

Passwords are not secure and user-friendly enough. News about hackers shows how vulnerable we are against determined attackers. We need strong, low-cost, and user-friendly authentication solutions based on personal devices that we carry with us. PATRIOT provides these solutions, gives users control over their (data) security and guarantees privacy.

SUPERCLOUD researches and develops new security and dependability infrastructure management paradigm. The approach is on one hand, User-Centric for self-service clouds-of-clouds, i.e., customers can define their own protection requirements and avoid provider lock-ins. On the other hand, it is on Self-Managed services for self-protecting clouds-of-clouds which can reduce administration complexity through automation.

The SAFURE methodology is enabled by a framework developed to extend system capabilities so as to control the concurrent effects of security threats on the system behaviour. With this in mind, the project allows European suppliers of safety-critical embedded products to develop more cost and energy-aware solutions.

The main motivation of this project is to bridge basic algorithmic approaches with hardware-level security implementations. It requires integrating secure cryptographic primitives such as random number generators (RNGs) and physically uncloneable functions (PUFs), together with physical attack countermeasures. HECTOR studies, designs and implements RNGs and PUFs with demonstrable entropy guarantees and quality metrics. This includes on-the-fly entropy testing and physical attacks evaluations, which will enable more secure systems and easier certification.

The ADMONT project is focused on a powerful and versatile More-than-Moore (MtM) pilot line for Europe increasing the diversification of CMOS process technologies. The combination of existing expertise, technological capabilities and the manufacturing capacity of industrial and research partners creates a whole new ecosystem within Europe’s biggest silicon technology cluster “Silicon Saxony”. The distributed pilot line utilizes various MtM platform technologies for sensor and OLED processing in combination with baseline CMOS processes in a unique way and incorporates 2.5D as well as 3D integration of silicon systems into one single production flow.

RESCURE aims to deliver a low-cost IoT security solution based on a patented SRAM-PUF technology, which provides secure storage and root-of-trust. On top, we will deliver security protocols that scale on Critical Infrastructures.

The project LEDLUM (Tiny Light Engine for Large Scale LED Lighting) will make major improvements to the volume, the weight, the lifetime and the size of the driver (electrical engine) of light emitting diodes (LED), that are used in the majority of solid state light (SSL) systems

certMILS aims to increase the economic efficiency and European competitiveness of CPS development, while demonstrating the effectiveness of safety & security certification of composable systems.

The AQUARIUS project addresses the development of a new generation of photonic sensing solution, in response to the need for pervasive sensing for a safer environment. In particular, components, modules, sub-systems and systems shall be developed for enhanced sensitivity and specificity measurements in water monitoring.

Developing a heterogeneous microsystem integration platform which facilitates high volume manufacturing of compact, reliable, energy-efficient and advanced-performance millimeter-wave and THz systems at drastically reduced costs. M3TERA will produce a primary technology prototype, develop a system-in-package concept and enable a manufacturable and efficient technology transfer.

Safe4RAIL results will encourage interoperability, efficiency, safety and secure interconnection of technical solutions among European railway providers, boosting the worldwide competitiveness and preserving the global leadership of the European transport industry.

VESSEDIA will develop a methodology that allows one to adopt and use source code analysis tools efficiently and produce similar benefits in other application domains of lower criticality than for highly-critical applications (i.e. an exhaustive analysis and extraction of faults).

The PrECISE project is a pilot project that combines hypothesis-driven strategies with data-driven analysis in a novel mathematical and computational methodology for the integration of genomic, epigenetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and clinical data with the goal of risk-stratifying patients and suggesting personalized therapeutic interventions.

The main objective of the project is the development of a system for timely detection, classification and understanding of the intentions of suspected air targets. The system will also provide a prediction of the landing site or dropping zone. ALFA will contribute to the many EU goals regarding border security

The FP7 project TClouds (Trustworthy Clouds) aims to build a prototype which allows virtualized computing, network, and storage resources over the Internet to provide scalability and cost-efficiency.

The threat of side-channel attacks is of crucial importance when designing systems with cryptographic hardware or software. Especially smart cards and related micro-chip systems have shown considerable vulnerabilities in this respect. Side-channel attacks analyse and exploit the information produced by some system by, for example, measuring its power consumption or the electro-magnetic emanation of this system.

The objective of the FP6 project OpenTC is to develop a secure OS and related protocol and management software a Trusted Booting and disc volume encryption; Implementation of virtualisation layer; TSS stack for the TPM and first management SW for performing elementary TPM functionalities; General interfaces and control capabilities for intra- as well as inter-OS communication and external useable security APIs.

With OMEGA’s gigabit home network, users get easy access to high-bandwidth information and communication services such as telepresence, 3D gaming, enhanced interactivity, virtual reality, highdefi nition video as well as e-health applications and services for the exchange of user-generated business or multimedia content.

The Multi-Base project objectives target the elimination of key technical and commercial barriers to ubiquitous broadband access by enabling efficient and sustainable disposition of operation and production factors as spectrum, power engineering cost and silicon process technology.

The process developed and implemented within the CopPeR project significantly improves the quality of the Cu metallization due to the fact that the conductivity limiting seed-Cu will be eliminated and thinner barrier films can be applied, e.g. by ALD (atomic layer deposition); so more volume is available in trenches for high quality, low resistivity Cu.

The mission of the CACE project is to enable verifiable secure cryptographic software engineering to non-experts by developing a toolbox which automatically produces high-performance solutions from natural specifications.

An integrated control and chemometrics module converts the spectroscopic data into concentrations. The resulting compact, robust and economical analysers can be deployed in a large number of roles, such as minimally invasive medical diagnostics, environmental and workplace monitoring, industrial real-time process control and even security applications.

Taco developes a three dimensional sensing system with real 3D foveation properties to increase the ability for the service robot interaction with their natural environment. It develops a three dimensional sensing system with real 3D foveation properties to allow robots to interact with everyday environment in a more natural and human-like manner.

MAMMOET aims to bring MaMi from an initial promising concept to a highly attractive technology for usage in future broadband mobile networks. In order to achieve its overall goal, the project has a number of important scientific and industrial objectives. These include fundamental, experimental and standardisation elements.

The protection of Critical Infrastructure (CI) increasingly demands solutions which support incident detection and management at the levels of individual CI, across CIs which are depending on each other, and across borders. An approach is required which really integrates functionalities across all these levels. Cooperation of privately operated CIs and public bodies (governments and EU) is difficult but mandatory.

After many years of analysis and research on partial effects in CI Protection (CIP) and for individual infrastructure sectors, ECOSSIAN is a European attempt to develop this holistic system.

The PRACTICE project aims to build a secure cloud framework that allows for the realization of advanced and practical cryptographic technologies providing sophisticated security and privacy guarantees for all parties in cloud- computing scenarios.

MATTHEW investigates privacy-enhancing technologies and how to integrate them into the “multiple roots of trust”-concept in a way that the exchanged privacy-relevant information is reduced to an absolute minimum. Furthermore, this approach prevents the remaining of sensitive data in a device after the external modules have been unplugged.

The EURO-MILS project introduces into the European trustworthy ICT landscape a verified and design-validated MILS platform: a small virtualisation platform that offers the secure decomposition of complex embedded systems into independent components.

Researching and deriving the advantages obtained by introducing PUF technology into PRS design, focusing on both the end product itself as well as the manufacturing process. The project analyzes PRS constraints and requirements and combine these with the intrinsic PUF security and cost benefits to obtain architectural building blocks that will serve as a basis for prototyping but also as reference to analyze potential side-channel attacks and countermeasures to protect against these

The protection of hardware systems against counterfeiting, cloning, tampering, reverse engineering and insertion of malicious components using hardware-based cryptography and security building blocks, security architectures, protocols, algorithms, design and evaluation principles. Developing solutions to the counterfeiting problem that are supported by strong, novel and consistent design and evaluation methods for multi-level security.

Hint will develop a solution to implement a common framework for a system’s integrity checking based on Trusted Computing technologies. The consortium will demonstrate the capabilities of the developed technologies on real-life applications. HINT will also prepare the adoption of the proposed technologies by future Common Criteria evaluation schemes.