In the automotive area as well as in the area of mobile communications, the ability to integrate a multitude of new functions in a distributed system scenario has become a condition for market survival. And this – naturally – without a decrease in productivity, while keeping in mind high safety and quality requirements as well as commercial aspects. The research of a cross-domain design methodology for distributed microelectronic systems while considering complex environmental conditions and more efficient application-specific design processes is therefore the goal of VISION.
VISION addresses the design of networked microelectronic systems in the areas of automotive electronics and mobile communications. For the first time, the project supplies an integrated view of networked systems that are already in early design phases. This will allow it to master the new requirements listed in the markets named successfully. Consideration of system integration at the beginning of the design process will result in the discovery of integration errors in the specification phase. This will lead to a strong increase in productivity as well as the ability to significantly improve the methodical design of highly-networked microelectronic systems in the future in the extremely important discipline of system integration in Germany. Since system integration in the automotive and telecommunication sector possesses a very high share in the value chain, direct positive microeconomic and macroeconomic effects are obvious.
The project is classified directly in the Ekompass framework, which defines one of the three support pillars of nanoelectronics in the IT Research 2006 Federal Ministry of Education and Research support program. Thus, the support of the automotive application domain is directly in line with the nanomotion control innovation published in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research support program IT Research 2006.
VISION was approved as of 5/1/2006 and is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under grant ID 01M3078. Cadence Design Systems GmbH, FZI Karlsruhe, Infineon Technologies AG and Robert Bosch GmbH are project partners. Additional research activities in the subcontract are conducted by OFFIS, Universität der Bundeswehr München and the University of Tübingen.