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Generic Technologies for WDM Transmitter Photonic Integrated Circuits (GeTPICs)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The project aims at achieving the improvement of Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) building blocks (BBs) for generic integration technology, the design and fabrication of high bit-rate transmitter PICs, typically WDM 10x 25Gbps and 4x 25GBau Tx PIC as test vehicles for the deve-loped BBs, and finally the test and validation of the fabricated PICs in a transmission environment. The program addresse ...
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Access CenTer for PHotonics innovAtion Solutions and Technology support (ACTPHAST)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

ACTPHAST is a unique "one-stop-shop" European access centre for photonics innovation solutions and technology support (Access CenTre for PHotonics innovAtion Solutions and Technology support). ACTPHAST will support and accelerate the innovation capacity of European SMEs by providing them with direct access to the expertise and state-of-the-art facilities of Europe's leading photonics research cent ...
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Embedded Multi-Core Systems for Mixed Criticality Applications in Dynamic and Changeable Real-Time Environments (EMC2)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Embedded systems are the key innovation driver to improve almost all mechatronic products with cheaper and even new functionalities. Furthermore, they strongly support today's information society as inter-system communication enabler.Consequently boundaries of application domains are alleviated and ad-hoc connections and interoperability play an increasing role. At the same time, multi-core and ma ...
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Algorithms, Design Methods, and Many-Core Execution Platform for Low-Power Massive Data-Rate Video and Image Processing (Almarvi)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

ALMARVI aims at providing cross-domain many-core platform solution, system software stack, tool chain, and adaptive algorithms that will enable massive data-rate image/video processing with high energy efficiency. ALMARVI will provide mechanisms and support for high degree of adaptivity at various system layers that will abstract the variations in the underlying platforms (e.g., due to imperfectio ...
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Dependable Embedded Wireless Infrastructure (DEWI)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

DEWI (dependable embedded wireless infrastructure) envisions to significantly foster Europe’s leading position in embedded wireless systems and smart (mobile) environments such as vehicles, railway cars, airplanes and buildings. These environments comprise wireless sensor networks and wireless applications for citizens and professional users. Therefore the consortium introduces the concept of a “s ...
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INCREASING THE PENETRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES IN THE DISTRIBUTION GRID BY DEVELOPING CONTROL STRATEGIES AND USING ANCILLARY SERVICES (INCREASE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The significant rise in distributed renewable energy sources has placed an enormous burden on the secure operation of the electrical grid, impacting both the transmission system operators (TSOs) and distribution system operators (DSOs). The massive increase of the intermittent DRES in low (LV) and medium (MV) networks has led to a bidirectional power flow which raises the urgent need for new oper ...
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Combining Optics and SDN In next Generation data centre Networks (COSIGN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The role of Data Centres (DCs) is vital for the Future Internet. However, DC infrastructures are already stressed by data volumes and service provisioning and consumption trends. Emerging demands cannot be addressed by today's DCs and call for a massive redesign or even transformation of DC architectures.COSIGN proposes a new DC architecture empowered by advanced optical technologies and will demo ...
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Advanced Reluctance Motors for Electric Vehicle Applications (ARMEVA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

To enable a large scale adoption of EVs, a new generation of electric drive systems is needed to reduce dependency on rare earth materials, while improving energy efficiency, power density, safe operation and reducing manufacturing/recycling costs. ARMEVA will develop a new rare-earth-material free generation of advanced reluctance motors.The goal of ARMEVA is to achieve similar power density and ...
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An open-source software tool for the detailed reproduction of the urban sound environment (OPENPSTD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The current research proposal is situated in the field of urban sound propagation, and aims for an open-source software development of the Pseudo-Spectral Time-Domain method (openPSTD). Regardless of our location, we are at all times immersed by a sound environment, which may affect us both positively or negatively. The detailed reproduction of the urban sound environment is essential for analyzin ...
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Mid-InfraRed Active photonic integrated Circuits for Life sciences and Environment (MIRACLE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

My group will explore the new field of photonic integrated circuits for the mid infrared (MIR) wavelength band based on high-index contrast waveguide structures. This research is fueled by the need for compact, integrated solutions for spectroscopic sensor systems in the MIR for biomedical applications and environmental monitoring, since most molecules have fingerprint absorption lines in this w ...
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Low latency and high throughput dynamic network\ninfrastructures for high performance datacentre interconnects (LIGHTNESS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The main objective of the LIGHTNESS project is the design, implementation and experimental evaluation of high performance data centre interconnects through the introduction of innovative photonic switching and transmission inside data centres. Harnessing the power of optics will enable data centres to effectively cope with the unprecedented demand growth to be faced in the near future, which will ...
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An efficient and effective platform for the cooperation of photonics clusters and the exploitation of European SMEs potential (Light Jumps)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Photonics is a key innovation driver in many research and application areas like telecommunications, lighting, entertainment, laser-assisted manufacturing and sensors. Europe is a leading actor in the photonics sector, responsible of 20,3%, of the global productionIt is paramount to create a solid framework and virtual infrastructure, foster the competitiveness and global leadership of the EU pho ...
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Nano Scale Disruptive Silicon-Plasmonic Platform for Chip-to-Chip Interconnection (NAVOLCHI)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

The NAVOLCHI project explores, develops and demonstrates a novel nano-scale plasmonic chip-to-chip and system-in-package interconnection platform to overcome the bandwidth, foot-print and power consumption limitations of todays electrical and optical interconnect solutions. The technology exploits the ultra-compact dimensions and fast electronic interaction times offered by surface plasmon polarit ...
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Self adaptive heterogeneous manycore based on Flexible Tiles (FlexTiles)

Start date: Oct 15, 2011, End date: Apr 14, 2015,

Description To develop an energy-efficient programmable heterogeneous manycore platform with self-adaptive capabilities that apply to cognitive radio, video processing, embedded devices and ambient computingA major challenge in computing is to leverage multi-core technology to develop energy-efficient high performance systems. This is cri ...
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Multi-mode capacity enhancement with PBG fibreMulti-mode capacity enhancement with PBG fibre (MODE-GAP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The Mode-Gap project targets the 100 fold enhancement of the overall capacity of broadband core networks, and seeks to provide Europe with a lead in the development of the next generation internet infrastructure that will soon be desperately needed if we are to keep pace with societies ever increasing data-transmission requirements. It is now recognized that research results are within a factor of ...
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Demonstrating technical and market feasibility of an advanced web semantic information system supporting SMEs innovation processes (DISCOVER-IT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"The DISCOVER-IT objective is to support SMEs innovation processes through an advanced information system based on semantic technologies. The project starts from the results reached in the European project ""INSEARCH"", consisting in a prototype information system able to support SMEs in the search and extraction of knowledge related to innovation process present in structured and unstructured inf ...
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Time-predictable Multi-Core Architecture for Embedded Systems (T-CREST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Safety-critical systems are important parts of our daily life. Those systems are also called dependable systems, as our lives can depend on them. Examples are controllers in an airplane, breaking controller in a car, or a train control system. Those safety-critical systems need to be certified and the maximum execution time needs to be bounded and known so that response times can be assured when c ...
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SET induced COMParison principles for COMPlex systems (SetComp)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

The current trend in control engineering which is traditionally defined by the societal needs is to deal with the complexity of dynamical systems in order to provide tools that allow the development of efficient, sustainable and low-cost solutions to control problems. Systems developed by engineers are now large-scaled, networked, and exhibit high nonlinear behavior. Also, the efficient developmen ...
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NanosensEU

Start date: Jun 30, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2013,

Het ontwikkelen van een universeel meetoppervlak voor de detectie van biomoleculen. De beschikbaarheid van een dergelijk meetoppervlak laat toe op een meer efficiënte wijze biosensoren te ontwikkelen en te gebruiken. Biosensoren zijn zeer gevoelige analysesystemen die gebruikt worden in diverse takken van de life sciences en daaraan gekoppelde bedrijfsactiviteiten.Het leveren van de proof-of-princ ...
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Price-based Control of Electrical Power Systems (E-PRICE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

The EU electric power system experiences a fundamental change in the quasi-monopolistic, top-down oriented, stable, and reasonable predictable arrangements of the past. It now spans continents, has hundreds of millions consumers and hundreds of thousands of producers, from nuclear power plants to privately-owned and operated badly predictable renewables such as solar cells, wind and microturbines ...
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European Manufacturing Platform For Photonic Integrated Circuits (EuroPIC)

Start date: Aug 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

The objective of EuroPIC is no less than to effect a fundamental change in the way applications based on photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are designed and manufactured in Europe. The key development is to facilitate access by small companies (SMEs) to development and manufacturing of photonic micro-systems in the form of advanced but very cost effective PICs. EuroPIC can bring forth a new produ ...
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Pan-European Photonics Task Force: Integrating Europe's Expertise on Photonic Subsystems (EURO-FOS)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

EURO-FOS aims at creating a powerful pan-European network on photonic subsystems by clustering top European systems groups with proven track record in the design, development and evaluation of photonic subsystems. EURO-FOS aims at bridging the gap between research on device-level physics and new architectures from the network-level. The first objective of the project is the integration of research ...
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Heterogeneous InP on Silicon Technology for Optical Routing and LogIC (HISTORIC)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

HISTORIC proposes to design, develop and test digital photonic integrated circuits containing a relatively large number of active photonic elements combined with passive elements, for use in e.g. all-optical packet switching for both datacom and telecom. The building blocks for the digital photonic circuits are ultra-compact gates based on micro-ring or micro-disk lasers, photonic crystal lasers o ...
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Terabit-on-chip:\nmicro and nano-scale silicon photonic integrated components and sub-systems enabling Tb/s-capacity, scalable and fully integrated photonic routers (BOOM)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

BOOM is an integration project that aims to pursue the systematic advancement of Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) integration technology to develop compact, cost-effective and power efficient silicon photonic components that enable photonic Tb/s capacity systems for current and new generation high speed broadband core networks. BOOM develops fabrication techniques as well as flip-chip bonding and wafer- ...
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Architectures for fLexible Photonic Home and Access networks (ALPHA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

The ALPHA project addresses the challenges of building the future access and all types of in-building networks for home and office environments. The proposal supports the evolution towards a cognitive network by dynamically utilising the resources of an optical network infrastructure to support a heterogeneous environment of wired and wireless technologies.The project investigates innovative archi ...
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Building the Future Optical Network in Europe: The e-Photon/ONe Network (BONE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

Description Building the Future Optical NetworkMain ObjectivesThe BONE-network brings together 49 laboratories and research institutes from al over Europe in a close networking infrastructure, built on the foundations laid down by the FP6 ePhoton/ONe Network and represents the research activities within Europe in the field of Optical Netw ...
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Memory management technology for adaptive and efficient design of embedded systems (MNEMEE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

The theme of intelligent ubiquitous devices will dominate future embedded system designs and speed up the integration of multimedia and communication applications, thus creating very complex, dynamic source code. Today it is increasingly impossible for designers to map applications cost-efficiently to any platform without significant optimization of the initial source code. The MNEMEE project will ...
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Mimo mid-range radar for security applications in mainstream CMOS technology (MiRaMos)

Start date: Aug 10, 2009, End date: Aug 9, 2010,

The event of 11-Sepember incident has changed the face of the world as it was familiar to us. This event indicated the embarking of a new episode in the history of mankind which should have been associated with the security concerns. Although a large assortments of security devices has been put in action to prevent the happening of the world shaking events, however, the static nature of the availa ...
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