Die Forschungsgruppe RESPECT hat das Ziel die unterschiedlichen, zur Zeit an der Fachhochschule unabhängig bearbeiteten Forschungsthemen im Bereich Hochfrequenztechnik, Analog- und Digitaltechnik zu bündeln und damit eine enge Zusammenarbeit und Knowhow-Austausch zu ermöglichen.

Die Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten der Forschungsgruppe können thematisch in die 3 Themenbereiche: Integrierte Schaltungen, Systemintegration und Modellierung und Simulation gebündelt werden. Die enge Kooperation und der Austausch der vorhandenen spezifischen Kompetenzen zwischen diesen drei Themenbereichen innerhalb der Forschungsgruppe ermöglicht die Durchführung komplexer, multi-disziplinärer Projekte im Bereich integrierter Schaltungen. Weites kann im Vergleich zum Ist-Stand die internationale Sichtbarkeit im Bereich der Forschung gesteigert werden.

Die Forschungsgruppe RESPECT hat das Ziel die unterschiedlichen, zur Zeit an der Fachhochschule unabhängig bearbeiteten Forschungsthemen im Bereich Hochfrequenztechnik, Analog- und Digitaltechnik zu bündeln und damit eine enge Zusammenarbeit und Knowhow-Austausch zu ermöglichen.

Die Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten der Forschungsgruppe können thematisch in die 3 Themenbereiche: Integrierte Schaltungen, Systemintegration und Modellierung und Simulation gebündelt werden. Die enge Kooperation und der Austausch der vorhandenen spezifischen Kompetenzen zwischen diesen drei Themenbereichen innerhalb der Forschungsgruppe ermöglicht die Durchführung komplexer, multi-disziplinärer Projekte im Bereich integrierter Schaltungen. Weites kann im Vergleich zum Ist-Stand die internationale Sichtbarkeit im Bereich der Forschung gesteigert werden.

Die Forschungsgruppe RESPECT hat das Ziel die unterschiedlichen, zur Zeit an der Fachhochschule unabhängig bearbeiteten Forschungsthemen im Bereich Hochfrequenztechnik, Analog- und Digitaltechnik zu bündeln und damit eine enge Zusammenarbeit und Knowhow-Austausch zu ermöglichen.

Die Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten der Forschungsgruppe können thematisch in die 3 Themenbereiche: Integrierte Schaltungen, Systemintegration und Modellierung und Simulation gebündelt werden. Die enge Kooperation und der Austausch der vorhandenen spezifischen Kompetenzen zwischen diesen drei Themenbereichen innerhalb der Forschungsgruppe ermöglicht die Durchführung komplexer, multi-disziplinärer Projekte im Bereich integrierter Schaltungen. Weites kann im Vergleich zum Ist-Stand die internationale Sichtbarkeit im Bereich der Forschung gesteigert werden.

Die Forschungsgruppe RESPECT hat das Ziel die unterschiedlichen, zur Zeit an der Fachhochschule unabhängig bearbeiteten Forschungsthemen im Bereich Hochfrequenztechnik, Analog- und Digitaltechnik zu bündeln und damit eine enge Zusammenarbeit und Knowhow-Austausch zu ermöglichen.

Die Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten der Forschungsgruppe können thematisch in die 3 Themenbereiche: Integrierte Schaltungen, Systemintegration und Modellierung und Simulation gebündelt werden. Die enge Kooperation und der Austausch der vorhandenen spezifischen Kompetenzen zwischen diesen drei Themenbereichen innerhalb der Forschungsgruppe ermöglicht die Durchführung komplexer, multi-disziplinärer Projekte im Bereich integrierter Schaltungen. Weites kann im Vergleich zum Ist-Stand die internationale Sichtbarkeit im Bereich der Forschung gesteigert werden.

The EU Chips Act aims to increase Europe‘s global production share of semiconductors to 20% by 2030, leading to a need for a skilled workforce to support this growth. Additionally, the EU‘s Green Deal initiative focuses on a transition to sustainable and energy efficient technologies, further emphasizing the need for expertise in sustainable chip development and green applications. There is an EU wide shortage of skilled workers in microelectronics. Addressing this shortage will be crucial in meeting the goals of both the EU Chips Act and the Green Deal. Furthermore, the next generation of students is largely interested in contributing to a sustainable environment. Providing them with the opportunity to gain deeper expertise in this field will align their skills with the industry‘s future needs. The proposed project „Green Chips-EDU“ supports the aforementioned goals by addressing the needs and challenges of a green and digital transition in the microelectronics industry. The consortium, made up of 15 key players from 7 EU countries, aims to build an attractive education ecosystem in green microelectronics by integrating the knowledge triangle of excellent education, industries needs and research challenges. The consortium includes 6 Unite! partners working on a harmonized curriculum focusing on energy efficiency and the development of sustainable integrated circuits. The project addresses all objectives from the call by offering a wide range of degree programs including mutual recognition as well as self-standing modules, implementing staff and student mobility, digital learning formats and upgrading infrastructure. About 600 students are planned to receive degrees or certificates in green electronics. In addition, summer schools, sustainability hackathons, learn-repair cafés as well as expert lectures by the partner companies and research institutions are organized to attract and train students to counteract the skills shortage in microelectronics in the EU.

Die Forschungsgruppe RESPECT hat das Ziel die unterschiedlichen, zur Zeit an der Fachhochschule unabhängig bearbeiteten Forschungsthemen im Bereich Hochfrequenztechnik, Analog- und Digitaltechnik zu bündeln und damit eine enge Zusammenarbeit und Knowhow-Austausch zu ermöglichen.

Die Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten der Forschungsgruppe können thematisch in die 3 Themenbereiche: Integrierte Schaltungen, Systemintegration und Modellierung und Simulation gebündelt werden. Die enge Kooperation und der Austausch der vorhandenen spezifischen Kompetenzen zwischen diesen drei Themenbereichen innerhalb der Forschungsgruppe ermöglicht die Durchführung komplexer, multi-disziplinärer Projekte im Bereich integrierter Schaltungen. Weites kann im Vergleich zum Ist-Stand die internationale Sichtbarkeit im Bereich der Forschung gesteigert werden.

The EU-funded CoRaLi-DAR project will develop a low-cost, low-power and reliable advanced detection and ranging sensor system as a platform for the automotive market and beyond. The project aims at integrating in the same module both radio and light-based sensing, exploiting LiDAR’s high-resolution capabilities and RADAR’s strong reliability in adverse weather conditions. The full integration of photonics and electronics will reduce manufacturing cost and operational power.

The EU Chips Act aims to increase Europe‘s global production share of semiconductors to 20% by 2030, leading to a need for a skilled workforce to support this growth. Additionally, the EU‘s Green Deal initiative focuses on a transition to sustainable and energy efficient technologies, further emphasizing the need for expertise in sustainable chip development and green applications. There is an EU wide shortage of skilled workers in microelectronics. Addressing this shortage will be crucial in meeting the goals of both the EU Chips Act and the Green Deal. Furthermore, the next generation of students is largely interested in contributing to a sustainable environment. Providing them with the opportunity to gain deeper expertise in this field will align their skills with the industry‘s future needs. The proposed project „Green Chips-EDU“ supports the aforementioned goals by addressing the needs and challenges of a green and digital transition in the microelectronics industry. The consortium, made up of 15 key players from 7 EU countries, aims to build an attractive education ecosystem in green microelectronics by integrating the knowledge triangle of excellent education, industries needs and research challenges. The consortium includes 6 Unite! partners working on a harmonized curriculum focusing on energy efficiency and the development of sustainable integrated circuits. The project addresses all objectives from the call by offering a wide range of degree programs including mutual recognition as well as self-standing modules, implementing staff and student mobility, digital learning formats and upgrading infrastructure. About 600 students are planned to receive degrees or certificates in green electronics. In addition, summer schools, sustainability hackathons, learn-repair cafés as well as expert lectures by the partner companies and research institutions are organized to attract and train students to counteract the skills shortage in microelectronics in the EU.

Die Forschungsgruppe RESPECT hat das Ziel die unterschiedlichen, zur Zeit an der Fachhochschule unabhängig bearbeiteten Forschungsthemen im Bereich Hochfrequenztechnik, Analog- und Digitaltechnik zu bündeln und damit eine enge Zusammenarbeit und Knowhow-Austausch zu ermöglichen.

Die Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten der Forschungsgruppe können thematisch in die 3 Themenbereiche: Integrierte Schaltungen, Systemintegration und Modellierung und Simulation gebündelt werden. Die enge Kooperation und der Austausch der vorhandenen spezifischen Kompetenzen zwischen diesen drei Themenbereichen innerhalb der Forschungsgruppe ermöglicht die Durchführung komplexer, multi-disziplinärer Projekte im Bereich integrierter Schaltungen. Weites kann im Vergleich zum Ist-Stand die internationale Sichtbarkeit im Bereich der Forschung gesteigert werden.

The EU-funded CoRaLi-DAR project will develop a low-cost, low-power and reliable advanced detection and ranging sensor system as a platform for the automotive market and beyond. The project aims at integrating in the same module both radio and light-based sensing, exploiting LiDAR’s high-resolution capabilities and RADAR’s strong reliability in adverse weather conditions. The full integration of photonics and electronics will reduce manufacturing cost and operational power.

This project is dedicated to establish procedures in modelling for electromagnetic compatibility as well as high-level modelling for wireless communication and EMC. It consists of three work packages. Part 1 contains the modelling of EMC for near field communication (NFC) in the automotive domain, making use of 3D simulation and circuit simulation. Part 2 deals with functional modelling using the standardized SystemC language (IEEE 1666) for a top-down concept- and verification methodology and also investigates in extending the model using SystemC-AMS (IEEE 1666.1). Also a “shift left” approach - to start software development and test early using virtual prototypes - is addressed in this part, as well as extending the model for e.g. abstract Monte-Carlo simulations of a radio-frequency (RF) signal chain. In Part 3, the feasibility and also usability of such a high-level, functional modelling approach will be extended to wireless systems incl. EMC modelling for an NXP ultra-wide-band (UWB) transceiver product, instead of a classical Verilog WREAL model. It includes a complete end-to-end (E2E) path of transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) with a wireless channel in between (as functional IEEE 1666/1666.1 model) and simulates EMC events (“disturbers”) in the channel. It is a cooperative project between NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH and Co KG, Silicon Austria Labs GmbH and Carinthia University of Applied Sciences.

The EU Chips Act aims to increase Europe‘s global production share of semiconductors to 20% by 2030, leading to a need for a skilled workforce to support this growth. Additionally, the EU‘s Green Deal initiative focuses on a transition to sustainable and energy efficient technologies, further emphasizing the need for expertise in sustainable chip development and green applications. There is an EU wide shortage of skilled workers in microelectronics. Addressing this shortage will be crucial in meeting the goals of both the EU Chips Act and the Green Deal. Furthermore, the next generation of students is largely interested in contributing to a sustainable environment. Providing them with the opportunity to gain deeper expertise in this field will align their skills with the industry‘s future needs. The proposed project „Green Chips-EDU“ supports the aforementioned goals by addressing the needs and challenges of a green and digital transition in the microelectronics industry. The consortium, made up of 15 key players from 7 EU countries, aims to build an attractive education ecosystem in green microelectronics by integrating the knowledge triangle of excellent education, industries needs and research challenges. The consortium includes 6 Unite! partners working on a harmonized curriculum focusing on energy efficiency and the development of sustainable integrated circuits. The project addresses all objectives from the call by offering a wide range of degree programs including mutual recognition as well as self-standing modules, implementing staff and student mobility, digital learning formats and upgrading infrastructure. About 600 students are planned to receive degrees or certificates in green electronics. In addition, summer schools, sustainability hackathons, learn-repair cafés as well as expert lectures by the partner companies and research institutions are organized to attract and train students to counteract the skills shortage in microelectronics in the EU.

In the Chiplink project, CIME supports the development of high-speed chip-to-chip (Chiplet) data communication links for System-in-Package (SiP) chip integration.

The project objectives are (a) the systematic modelling and analysis of the signal integrity of chiplet (bunch-of-wires) data transmission links and (b) the evaluation of electromagnetic crosstalk between the single-ended chiplet data channels and sensitive RF components such as inductors in a PLL of a radar SoC.

The “Research Lab for Radio Frequency Frontends” (RFFE-Lab) is a cooperative research lab jointly operated with Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) and co-located at CUAS. As successor of the Josef Ressel Center for Integrated CMOS RF Systems and Circuits (Interact), it acts as an innovation hub for high-level research in RF and mmWave integrated circuits for wireless and wired high-speed data communication systems.

The main goal of the ANAGEN project is to develop an agile analog design methodology where the IC analog engineering knowledge will be captured in executable generators implemented in Python programming language. The target of the project is to design of basic analog blocks and systems that will be reused across different system-on-chips (SoCs) and CMOS technologies.

Die Forschungsarbeiten konzentrierten sich auf Modellierung und Design von On-Chip-Netzwerken vom System bis zur physikalischen Ebene und benötigten zur Verifikation die Entwicklung und Fertigung von Testchips in einer Sub-100 nm-CMOS-Technologie. Angestrebt wurden analoge Lösungen zur Echounterdrückung (Vollduplexbetrieb) sowie zur Dämpfung des Übersprechens (MIMO).

The research activities of the proposed Ressel Center at FH-Kärnten will focus on modeling and implementation of integrated radio-frequency (RF) systems and circuits based on standard integrated circuit CMOS technologies. The tasks include all necessary development steps from modeling, simulation, circuit implementation to lab characterization supporting future integrated wireless communication systems.

This project aims at developing architecture and technologies for implementing agile radio frequency (RF) transceiver capacities in future radio communication products. These new architecture and technologies will be able to manage multi-standard (multi-band, multi-data-rate, and multi-waveform) operation with high modularity, low-power consumption, high reliability, high integration, low costs, low PCB area, and low bill of material (BOM). This will not only require smart RF architectures in advanced CMOS and Bi-CMOS technologies, but also need to incorporate e.g. MEMS technologies and novel simulation methodology for achieving these complex optimizations. Today, the analog RF frontend simply duplicates the circuitry for each band which highly inefficient. Frequency agile high dynamic range digitally assisted RF architectures suitable for nanoscale CMOS together with tunable filters are the key innovations proposed for this project.

The proposed project will combine the research interests of two curricula in the faculty Engineering & IT of FH-Kärnten/Carinthia University of Applied Sciences: ISCD – Integrated Systems and Circuits Design and Health Care IT (HC IT). The project is part of the R&D strategies of both curricula and also fully in line with the long term R&D strategy of FH-Kärnten (development of sustainable technologies). ISCD researchers [1-3] have been working on a cooperative project (COSMOS, 4/2011 – 3/2013) to develop an innovative integrated color sensor. Health Care IT researchers are working on themes of ambient-assisted living and are focusing on the development of mobile supported devices, tele-monitoring, home-based training systems to improve physical fitness, methods to support rehabilitation activities, etc. Of special interest is the development of non-invasive medical home appliances, which require a high level of miniaturization and/or integration.

The COSMOS project’s focus is to research and develop a novel monolithically integrated low-cost Color sensor based on standard CMOS technology without costly process modifications or any external color filter structure. The sensor is based on a new photodiode color sensing technology in combination with algorithms for color reconstruction. It includes a high dynamic range analog frontend with a 20 bit Resolution ADC. A fully integrated color sensor prototype system was realized as key enabler for scientific and technical exploitations. New color detection methods could be demonstrated, which enables highly integrated low-cost color sensors for a wide range of consumer, industrial or biomedical applications. The proposed sensor is more technologically advanced compared to the current integrated solutions and moreover it is fully compatible with mass market applications.