Consortium

The NeurOSmart project combines the expertise of the five Fraunhofer institutes: 

• Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology ISIT 
• Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS 
• Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits IMS 
• Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU 
• Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS

In this context, Fraunhofer ISIT is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Holger Kapels.

In this present consortium, competences along the entire value chain (components - hardware - software - application - evaluation) are represented, so that a coordinated development of a Fraunhofer demonstrator platform from one source is made possible.

The participating institutes have excellence in their focus areas and have fundamental experience in the topics of the other institutes - this enables an efficient codesign of the overall system.

Fraunhofer ISIT has more than 25 years of experience in the development and integration of piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials for microelectronic and - electromechanical applications. In addition to Si-based technologies, the development of a GaN technology platform was initiated several years ago. The unique combination of CMOS, GaN and MEMS technologies at one location covers the spectrum from material development to process integration and application-oriented system evaluation. Furthermore, Fraunhofer ISIT has been able to build up know-how in the field of neuromorphic hardware over the past years.

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Fraunhofer IPMS is working intensively at the Center Nanoelectronic Technologies (CNT) on the development of memory technologies in advanced node CMOS realizations. In the field of implementation of ferroelectric HfO₂ Fraunhofer IPMS could establish itself internationally mainly by a revolutionary ferroelectric memory technology (FeFET).

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The Fraunhofer IMS has developed AIfES (Artificial Intelligence for Embedded Systems), a platform-independent and continuously growing machine learning library in the C programming language, which exclusively uses standard libraries based on the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).

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Fraunhofer IWU has been successfully conducting application-oriented research and development in the field of production technology for automotive and mechanical engineering since 1991. Among other things, the partner IWU has a research factory of about 1,700 m² for the industry-oriented testing of individual components, sensors / actuators, machines, processes and process chains as well as entire production processes.

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Fraunhofer IAIS has a powerful speech recognition system for automatic transcription and recognition of speech signals. The live recognition module is used in the Fraunhofer speech assistance system, making it the ideal prerequisite for the use case "keyword spotter and event recognition".