Ongoing Public Funded R&D Projects
TWASIC
The project TWASIC (an acronym for "Technikum Wien ASIC") aims to provide standard-cell based ASIC
(Application-specific Integrated Circuit) technology to students of the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien.
By developing dedicated lecture notes, tool flows, scripts as well as prototype and test environments, students
of our department will be able to design their own microchips. More information on this project will be available ...
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The funded project AC-Centrope II pursues the development of a curriculum, lab infrastructure, and courses for E-Mobility.
The ERDF funded project is organized as a joint effort of Wirtschaftsagentur Wien,
the István Széchenyi University in Györ, Hungary, and
the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien.
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Real and accurate figures of the traffic patterns of individuals provide the basis for decision making and planning in public areas. The actual uses range from optimizing means of transportation over directing the flow of people (e.g. for commercial purposes) up to assess safety measures of events (e.g., festivals). FlexiCount investigates means to obtain such figures in an automated way using sensor-mats.
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The demographic trend in industrial nations towards an aged population and a decline in birth rates requires new strategies to cope with the upcoming social
and economic challenges. Ambient Assistive Technologies can provide support to elderly or disabled persons, foster their autonomy and quality
of life and lower the cost of medical care.
The founded professorship expands the expertise of the institute to the sectors of supportive tools and smart home technologies, to better convey these topics in course of the
academic education.
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These days, the majority of embedded systems engineers still designing, programming, and verifying embedded software on
single-core embedded microcontrollers. As new technology trends emerge, more and more embedded chip vendors altering towards
multi-core technology, in terms of trying to provide sustainable performance enhancement by simultaneously lowering
chip power consumption.
Therefore, an embedded software designer, who is responsible for programming such new multi-core chips, are now facing new design challenges
due to the inherent parallelism of two or more cores running simultaneously.
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The availability of the first fully integrated MEMS gyroscopes in 2002 enabled the developement
of small and lightweight navigation sensors. In combination with other sensors they are used in
such different areas like avionics, mobile robotics, sports or medicine. The objectives of the
sponsored professorship "Embedded Control and Navigation" are to improve the know-how in the upcoming
field of navigation technology, to develop educational materials and showcase navigation systems
and to assist our different degree programmes in the education of students in this technology.
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AsTeRICS stands for "Assistive Technology Rapid Integration and Construction Set". In course of this international
Collaborative Project funded by the European Commission, flexible and affordable setups for user driven Assistive Technologies
dedicated to people with severely reduced motor skills will be developed and explored.
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The objective of Competence Team Embedded Platforms is to extend the expertise of embedded
platforms and their application. This includes hardware, software, operating systems,
middleware, communication, networks, and distributed systems. Development tools like
Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), compilers, and debuggers are another major
concern.
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Finished Public Funded R&D Projects
Coordinated Test, Debugging, and Diagnosis in Distributed Embedded Systems (COORDES)
In the course of the research project COORDES a new, patented solution which enables coordinated test, debugging and diagnosis in distributed embedded systems is
realized using FPGA-based as well as MPW-based ASIC prototyping.
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The competence team for test and verification of dependable systems investigates concepts and methods that will
enable testing and debugging of tightly coupled distributed embedded systems. Based on tight distributed clock synchronization
a first demonstrator shall enable, for example, investigation of distributed algorithms.
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Design Methods for Embedded Control Systems (DECS)
Relevant topics addressed by the DECS project are (i) formal specification and verification of embedded control system architectures and,
(ii) elaborate test and diagnosis tools for distributed embedded systems with a focus on automotive communication systems.
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Debugging of Real-Time Systems
The goal of the project is to develop strategies for debugging of real-time systems, which are used in today's networked
automotive systems using CAN, LIN or FlexRay. In addition, the project aims to transfer the findings and results to the department's undergraduate and graduate courses.
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Automotive Gateways
LIN, CAN, Byteflight, FlexRay, MOST are communication subsystems that are in use in modern cars.
These interconnect different electronic control units and enable thus the combination of various information that can be used to realize new features.
The research project Automotive Gateways investigates the complex network infrastructure in today's cars and tries
to find proper solutions on how to interconnect the various sub-systems.
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Component-based Automotive System Software (COMPASS)
Consortia like AUTOSAR push the standarization of the software in the automotive industry ahead.
The research project COMPASS investigates a component based approach, metrics,
and benchmarks to assess cost, performance and dependability aspects of such solutions.
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Systematic Test of Embedded Automotive Communication Systems (STEACS)
The vision of the STEACS project is to handle the automotive electronics complexity towards "Self-testing Cars".
To that end, this project will implement diagnosis and test tools based on requirements derived from the project partners.
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Industrial Contracts
Engineering support in the context of the Eurocontrol project SESAR
In this project the department offers design and engineering know-how to Frequentis in the context of the Eurocontrol funded
project SESAR as a subcontractor.
MDEBox - A Wireless Network Module to connect production machinery
In this project we develop a wirless module that interconnects various production machines (CNC, lathes, etc.) in order to collect status
information and the number of pieces every machine produces.
Modbus - Dynamic Route Information Panel Gateway
In this project we ported a SiTOS implementation to the Modbus bus protocol for a dynamic route information panel.
Furthermore, we enhanced the functionality of the software to accomodate displaying of multiple independet texts in different language locales.
Implementation of a coordinated firmware update solution via JTAG
In this contract the department develops a coordinated firmware update solution based on IEEE 1149.1 JTAG.
The software makes use of Standard Vector Format files and distributed test and debug services.
In the context of this contract the department offers design, implementation and test services for
FPGA and ASIC designs relying on Ethernet and IEEE 1588 clock synchronization.
- Programmable Logic Devices (PLD, FPGA Technologies)
- Synchronous Design Methodologies
- VHDL for Combinational & Sequential Logic
- VHDL Signals, Variables and Datatypes
- Theory and Application of Finite State Machines
Design and Verification Support for a Distributed Real-time System
Engineering support for the design and verification of the distributed hardware/software for the
measurement products DIS and VIS. In particular, hardware and software review as well as courses
to transfer know-how to improve the concepts of the respective products.
In this project a gateway for a traffic management system was developed that allows to display route-information via suitable information panels.
The solution is based on a PC/104 platform running the SiTOS protocol.
Engineering Support for Hardware/Software Co-Design
In this cooperation with the company Oregano Systems the Department of Embedded Systems provides engineering support for hardware/software co-design.
Test und Diagnosis of a FlexRay EPL Sub-System
The aim of this project is to define and implement test and diagnosis scenarios for bit error rate observations at the interface
level which connects a FlexRay communication controller to the transceiver circuitry.
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Development of a Data Collection Platform (DCP)
In the context of this project the Department of Embedded Systems is developing a satellite modem aka. data collection platform (DCP) for the company Logotronic GmbH.
With the help of a data logger observations and measurements of the physical, chemical or biological properties of oceans, rivers,
lakes, solid earth and the atmosphere are obtained. The DCP interfaces to this data logger and relays the collected data via METEOSAT or GOES satellites to
dedicated ground stations.
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