Press Releases 2016

The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS has developed a hardware-independent RFID OPC UA AutoID Server for Industrie 4.0 that is easily integrated into any application. This enables RFID components being used in automation technology and coming from various manufacturers to communicate with each other.

Soft IP Core for CAN FD met or exceeded bit rate and error handling tests in its second plug fest, running in representative automotive networks from Ford and GM.

CEA, Fraunhofer IPMS, IBM, Aixtron, CNRS, GSS and University of Glasgow start joint project on Carbon Nanotube Composite Interconnects (CONNECT) to enable future CMOS scaling.

Cables? Susceptible and impractical! Radio? Unreliable and inefficient!

Harvesting kinetic energy from human motion and converting it into usable electrical energy has become in recent years an attractive approach to powering wireless portable devices. Scientists at the Fraunhofer IPMS have developed a new energy harvesting device based on emergent electroactive polymers, which is small enough to be embedded in the sole of a shoe and can be used to power such devices. At the Embedded World show from February 23 to 25, 2016 experts from the Fraunhofer IPMS will present the technology for the first time.

Experts at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS in Dresden have been developing compact, customer-customized sensor transponders for diverse industrial applications for years. Because wireless sensors are maintenance-free and battery independent, powered with energy provided solely by the antenna of the reader in the network, RFID-Tags are predestined to replace the bulky sensor nodes of conventional battery-powered systems in industrial sensor networks. Information about this technology can be found at the Fraunhofer IPMS exhibition Stand 583 in Hall 4 of the Embedded World 2016 Exhibition & Conference in Nuremberg from 23.-25. February.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS has developed an IP Core, which as an enhancement of the established CAN 2.OB standard, supports both the ISO CAN FD as well as the non-ISO CAN FD. In addition to this enhancement, which also allows for the connectivity of complex electronic control units with greater data throughput, the Fraunhofer IPMS CAN FD IP Core provides other useful functions. Thereby, designers of embedded systems can obtain a flexible and useful core for the development of powerful CAN FD solutions. Visitors to the 2016 Embedded World Exhibition & Conference held in Nuremberg from 23.-25. February are invited to stop by Booth 583 in Hall 4 to get a first impression of the new Fraunhofer IPMS CAN FD IP Core.

Pooling their expertise in Industrie 4.0, the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS and the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Dresden have come together to form the newly created working group ”Smart Wireless Production“ (SWP). The collaboration between the two research institutions was officially inaugurated with guests from politics, industry and science on January 14, 2016. The State Minister for Science and the Arts, Dr. Eva-Maria Stange, opened the launch event.