Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) with its 15.000 students is the largest technical university in Estonia. About 20 % of the students at TUT study in the field of IT. The unit involved in the project is the Department of Computer Engineering (DCE), 40 employees, including 6 professors, 10 senior faculty members and 20 PhD students. In the last three years 10 PhD students defended at DCE. During, the last 15 years, the group has participated in 13 EU-funded collaborative projects. DCE achieved the highest ranking of all the Estonian IT-related research groups in a recent evaluation carried out by an international jury. DCE has a pioneering position in developing the theory of decision diagrams for multi-level diagnostic modelling of digital embedded systems. The most important results have been achieved in verification, test generation, fault tolerance and error diagnosis fields. DCE annually publishes approximately 40 peer-reviewed papers in the reputed journals and conferences in the field. Many research frameworks have been developed in-house and actively used for new research algorithms implementation and evaluation decision diagrams based framework APRICOT and an open-source framework zamiaCAD. 

Team:

• Prof. Maksim Jenihhin (RESCUE Coordinator)
• Prof. Jaan Raik
• Prof. Raimund Ubar
• Prof. Gert Jervan
• Dr. Kristina Vassiljeva (RESCUE Quality of Life Officer)
• Mari Šavel (RESCUE Management Support Team Member)

BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) is the only technical university in the German state of Brandenburg, now with about 9500 students in 8 faculties. The computer science department, now comprising of 10 full professors plus 2 professors on a "shared" position with IHP, has about 500 students in Bachelor and Master programs in "computer science" and in "information and media technology". The technology of "hardware / software systems" has been a focus of research for the large 10 years, also in a class on "dependable hardware / software systems" in Cottbus International Graduate School, which has yielded more than 10 doctoral theses in the area. The department has been participating in about 20 academic and industrial projects, mainly funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) or the German Science Foundation (DFG).  Besides dependable and secure computing, the technology of wireless sensor nets has emerged as a major area of research. In the area of post-graduate education, BTU-CS has started an innovative educational program towards a "PhD in Dependable Hardware Software Systems" in close collaboration with TUT Tallinn and Polish and Czech universities.

Team:

• Prof. Michael Hübner
• Prof. H.T. Vierhaus (RESCUE WP5 Training leader)
• Prof. Jörg Nolte

Delft University of Technology (TUD). The Computer Engineering Lab brings together faculty, researchers, and students from computer science and electrical engineering. The CE lab pursues innovations for computer technology used in everyday human activities to highly sophisticated super-computers. The two main driving forces in our research are excellence and relevance to society. The CE lab has always strongly believed that academic research should also have a strong industrial impact. As a consequence, numerous ideas have been implemented in commercially available products. The CE lab has collaborated with worldwide leading companies such as IBM, Intel, Philips, and Thomson. A dozen of start-ups have been initiated by our members and by our alumni in the past 10 years

Team:

• Prof. Said Hamdioui (RESCUE WP1 Reliability leader)
• Prof. Mottaqiallah Taouil
• Prof. Koen Bertels
• Prof. Zaid Alars

Politecnico di Torino (PDT) is a recognized leading institution in technical-scientific education and research. Established in 1859, Politecnico di Torino is Italy’s oldest Technical University. PDT is persistently ranked among the first 5 Italian Universities by the Italian Ministry for Education, Research and University. The department of Control and Computer Engineering is very active in research topics related to embedded systems, including fault tolerant system design and test. The department manages the MSc and PhD curricula in Computer Engineering (about 400 and 50 students enrolled, respectively). It has a strong record of cooperation with other research institutions and companies, and it is currently involved in more than 20 EU-funded projects.

Team:

• Prof. Matteo Sonza Reorda (RESCUE WP2 Quality leader)
• Prof. Luca Sterpone
• Prof. Giovanni Squillero

Cadence Design Systems GmbH (CDNS) is a leading provider of EDA solutions and semiconductor IP. The company develops custom/analog tools, digital design and verification tools as well as IC packaging and PCB tools permitting the design of complete boards and subsystems. Cadence also offers a growing portfolio of design IPs and verification IPs for memories, interface protocols, analog/mixed-signal components, and specialized processors. At the system-level, Cadence offers an integrated suite of hardware/software co-development platforms.

The Cadence Academic Network promotes the proliferation of leading-edge technologies and methodologies at universities renowned for their engineering and design excellence. The knowledge network among selected universities, research institutes, industry advisors and Cadence was established to facilitate the sharing of technology expertise in the areas of verification, design and implementation of nanoelectronic systems.

Being Cadence a leading EDA provider, supplying most of the major players of the microelectronic industry, the researchers will be able to face challenging real customer problems, and contributing to the improvement of state of the art EDA tools. The unit acting as beneficiary in RESCUE is Cadence Design Systems GmbH located in Munich, Germany.

Team:

• Anton Klotz (RESCUE WP4 leader)
• Dr. Christian Sauer

IROC Technologies (IROC) is a private company which has been created in 2000 as a spin-off of the French National Research Lab (CNRS/TIMA). IROC Technologies provides design solutions and radiation test services to prevent, measure and analyse the problem of soft errors in modern integrated circuits. IROC is interested in assessing the sensitivity of electronic devices to radiation effects for both space (heavy ions, dose) and commercial markets (neutrons, alpha particles). In addition, we are very interested of all aspects related to reliability and safety, as the solutions we develop are also effective against other problems induced by process variability, out-of-specs working environments and other external perturbations.

IROC offers test services, aiming at measuring through experiment devices sensitivity; EDA tools, aiming at predicting through simulation devices sensitivity; Design solutions and services, aiming at hardening devices to external and internal perturbations, including soft error effects and process variability.

IROC is offering its services and products to leaders of the electronic business, from foundries to system houses with a portfolio of more than 300 references. IROC Technologies has two sites, one in Grenoble (France) where is located the engineering group and one in Mountain View (USA) where is located the sales office for the USA and Asia.

In addition to these services and products, IROC has been developing specific devices and systems in both customer and research programs. In such programs, IROC has been implementing and challenging several of its owned patented design solutions dedicated to circuit hardening. Such results did allow enhancing of existing designs and innovative and competitive solutions issued on the market.

Team:

• Dr. Dan Alexandrescu
• Dr. Maximilien Glorieux

Intrinsic-ID (IID) is an SME, focusing on Hardware Intrinsic Security (HIS), which was founded in 2008 as a spin-off of Royal Philips Electronics and is still headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. It offers solutions to protect electronic devices against tampering and counterfeiting, based on Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) technology. This revolutionary technology makes electronic devices physically unclonable, to a level that even the manufacturer cannot make duplicates. Intrinsic-ID's technology is based on extensive experience in various aspects (physical as well as coding) of PUFs. The security solutions provided by Intrinsic-ID are based on tamper resistant key-storage that, once integrated in the customer's IP, allow for full control over the deployment of their IP. Over the last few years Intrinsic-ID has received several awards, such as SESAMES award 2012 for most innovative software solution, Dutch ICTregie award 2010, and Red Herring 100 in 2011. Recently Intrinsic-ID was listed by EE Times in their “Silicon 60: Hot Startups to Watch” and received the FP7-supported IPACSO award for best “Privacy or Cyber Security Innovator” (see http://ipacso.eu).

Team:

• Dr. Georgios Selimis (RESCUE WP3 leader)
• Ir. Geert-Jan Schrijen

Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP). The IHP has a team of 300 R&D professionals with core competence in micro-electronics: process technology, circuit design, and systems. As a member institute of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Society, the core funding comes from the German Federal Government and the State Government of Brandenburg. The institute is focused on developing innovative solutions for wireless communication, particularly in the 5-120 GHz range. Its expertise ranges from system prototyping and circuit design to the implementation and optimisation of protocol stacks and the development of system-enabling CMOS-compatible technology modules. The IHP is focused on wireless communication with an emphasis on integrated solutions, building on European strengths to enhance leadership in rapidly growing areas. Within the Systems Department fault tolerant and secure techniques are considered an enabling and supporting technology for ‘Systems on Chip’ solutions in various application fields. IHP has one of the most modern infrastructures in Europe, including a clean-room with 0.25um and recent 0.13um high-speed BiCMOS technology.

Team:

• Prof. Milos Krstic (RESCUE WP6 Dissemination and Communication leader)
• Prof. Peter Langendörfer
• Prof. Eckhard Grass
• Prof. Rolf Kraemer

Robert Bosch GmbH (RB) - Partner organisation. The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. Bosch has introduced series production for automotive innovations and  sets standards in the automotive domain, e.g. airbag control units, ABS, ESP®, lambda oxygen sensors, and direct injection. In the areas of automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods, and building technology, some 285,000 associates generated sales of 47.3 billion euros in fiscal 2010. Each year, Bosch spends more than 3.8 billion euros, or eight percent of its sales revenue, for research and development, and applies for over 3,800 patents worldwide. With all its products and services, Bosch enhances the quality of life by providing solutions that are both innovative and beneficial. RB has a strong R&D unit and works in close cooperation with institutes worldwide in a well-established cooperation structure.

RESCUE ESRs will work in the new research campus Renningen, Germany, which is an important hub in the international research network of Bosch. Starting end of 2014 all researchers of Bosch works concentrate in one location. The ESR researcher will be included in a modern development environment surrounded by all research areas Bosch is working on. Especially with the focus will be on automotive trends where the demand of new innovative ideas considering the industrial and normative constraints are very high. The ESR will benefit from the experts at RB knowing the technology demand, legal and regulation requirements.

Team

• Paul Duplys
• Simon Burton