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ATHENE researcher joins BMBF project “Scale4Edge”
Project on special processors launches as part of the BMBF lead initiative “Vertrauenswürdige Elektronik” (Trustworthy Electronics)
Following the announcement of the BMBF platform “ZuSE” (“Zukunftsfähige Spezialprozessoren und Entwicklungsplattformen”), three more projects launched recently, including “Scale4Edge”, in which ATHENE researcher Prof Andreas Koch represents the TU Darmstadt as one of the applicants.
For future ambitions such as autonomous driving and Industry 4.0, a growing amount of data has to be analysed with the help of a growing number of sensors using complex algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a short time span. However, not only do these processors need to fulfill strict requirements concerning their processing power, but also the energy efficiency, reliability, robustness and security, surpassing current possibilities completely at this time.
“Scale4Edge” investigates how development time and costs of application-specific processors can be reduced by a significant amount. Such processors often initiate critical calculations close to sensors, the interface between the virtual and the real world. That is why have to be especially reliable, performant and robust, but also energy-efficient. They also have to offer a great degree of reliability.
Prof Koch, leading the field of “Embedded Systems and Applications” at TU Darmstadt, will investigate the automatic creation of processors that can be fine-tuned to specific application areas(i.e. cryptography, Machine Learningor energy-saving Internet-of-Things scenarios) in the project.
Information on “Scale4Edge” (German)
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