European research project aims for Greener Electronics

This three-year ENIAC (European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council) project is designed to enhance the competitiveness of Europe’s semiconductor and electronics equipment companies in developing new products and technologies that are at the forefront of energy efficiency. The END project will pursue the energy efficiency objective through an innovative holistic approach that unifies, under a common design platform, the development of modeling, simulation, design and EDA techniques for a wide range of devices and systems (digital blocks, analog/RF blocks, discrete components). The project will also address the conception and experimentation of new power supply systems, with particular emphasis on energy management aspects. This mission enables a synergic approach to energy-aware design, offering a comprehensive set of solutions covering the many different facets of the complex problem of accounting for energy effects during the design of heterogeneous circuits and systems, such as those that will be hosted by the electronic products of the future. “The ultimate objective of the END project is to bring innovative energy-aware design solutions and EDA technologies into the product development of the industrial partners of the Consortium,” said Salvatore Rinaudo, END project coordinator and Industrial and Multisegment Sector CAD R&D Director at STMicroelectronics. “We will enable the design and manufacture of electronic circuits that will be at the basis of the green information society of the future.” The project will cost approximately EUR 12.6 million, with funding provided by both the ENIAC JU (Joint Undertaking) and from the public authorities of Belgium, Greece, Italy and Slovakia. The ENIAC JU is a public-private partnership with the European Commission, Member States, Associated States and European R&D actors and levers private and national investments. The project partners are: • STMicroelectronics s.r.l., Italy (Project Coordinator) • Centro Ricerche FIAT, Italy • ETH Lab, Eurotech Group, Italy • Numonyx Italy, Italy • Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per la Nanoelettronica, Italy • Politecnico di Torino, Italy • Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy • Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy • Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy • NXP Semiconductors, Germany • Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece • inAccess Networks, Greece • University of Patras, Greece • ON Semiconductor, Belgium • ON Semiconductor, Slovakia • Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia • LEITAT Technological Center, Spain • Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique, Switzerland