Projects

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 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.

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.

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

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 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.

Whether or not most people really understand “the cloud,” or “the Internet of things,” they do know that all of it must be designed and built. And if it was a matter of telling a computer what to do, there would be no challenges. It’s not that simple. Computers speak a language that humans do not. The new EU funded DECODER project hopes to improve how engineers communicate with the computer as well as each other to score big gains in efficiency, speed and development protocols.

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

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).

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.

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.