„Innovative platforms for Electronic systems“: Second, the Josef Ressel centre at the FH Technikum Wien opened

Research on micro-electronic high-tech components – joint financing through BMDW and the company Elektrobit, Kapsch, Oregano Systems.

Vienna (OTS) – On 7. March 2019 was held at the FH Technikum Wien, the official opening of the second Josef Ressel centre at the University of applied Sciences. Five years of research in cooperation with companies from the sector of „Innovative platforms for Electronic systems“. The funding of the Josef Ressel center by the Federal Ministry of digitisation and the economy location (BMDW), together with the participating companies.

„Innovative Hardware is one of the condition of digitisation,“ says Margaret Schramböck, Federal Minister for digitalisation and business location. „Flexible, reprogrammable Hardware will bring many areas of further progress, including electronic toll collection systems, Autonomous vehicles, and industry 4.0. This JR-center will make a valuable contribution and strengthen at the same time, important Austrian companies and the Austrian research landscape.“

„We are excited about the second Josef Ressel centre at the FHTW,“ said the rector Fritz schmölle Beck in the framework of the opening. „It underlines both the quality of our research in the area of Embedded Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems, as well as the confidence of funding bodies and industry in our expertise.“

Location factor: Complex micro-electronics at a reduced cost, The new Josef Ressel centre deals with so-called Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). It is micro-electronic components which, today, all multi-processor systems can be implemented on a single Chip. The power of FPGAs to high-innovative platforms for electronic systems. As components come about in telecommunications, but also in areas such as automotive or consumer electronics. Market studies to see a further increase in demand for these sophisticated components in the next few years. Especially for SME-dominated countries such as Austria, the FPGA technology open up the possibility for the realization of complex electronics, while avoiding the in this area, in the meantime, exorbitant one-time costs in the manufacture of application-specific circuits („ASICs). In addition, the Josef Ressel center can build on a current Austrian initiatives such as the „Silicon Austria Labs“ or the „Silicon Alps“ in the area of „Electronic Based system“.

The Ministry of economy promotes: use cases in Telecom, industry 4.0, and AI
In the research centre such as new design methods are examined, possibilities for the power consumption minimization or aspects in the implementation of safety-critical systems using FPGAs – always application-oriented and concrete applications of the corporate partner Elektrobit Austria GmbH, Kapsch TrafficCom AG and Oregano Systems Design & Consulting GmbH. The application fields will include automotive electronics and diagnostics, automation technology, electronic toll collection systems and the range of the high-precision clock synchronization. „Also, for many applications in the field of Artificial Intelligence, industry 4.0 or the Internet of Things, modern electronic systems are essential based platforms“, says Dr. Peter Rössler, head of the Josef Ressel center. „The rapid technological progress of microelectronics makes it necessary to deal constantly with the latest developments in this area. Funded projects such as the Josef Ressel centres provide a very good opportunity, as a University, together with industry partners, through application-oriented research of these developments assume and this also to a certain extent to shape it.“

Josef Ressel centres: International Best Practice, open to other companies
In the Josef Ressel-centres for application-oriented research at a high level, excellent researchers cooperate with innovative companies. For the promotion of this collaboration was the Christian Doppler research society, is an internationally recognized example of Best Practice. The Josef Ressel-centres are financed by the Federal Ministry for digitization and business location (BMDW) and the participating companies together. Through the flexible funding model can contribute during the five-year term of the centre are also other companies interested in the cooperation. The new Josef Ressel centre is the second such establishment in Vienna, and at the same time, the second Josef Ressel centre at the FH Technikum Wien: From 2013 to 2018, with the verification of embedded computer research systems in a closely related area.
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https://embsys.technikum-wien.at/projects/ines

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