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At Fraunhofer IMS Burkhard Heidemann, Head of Embedded Software and AI, and Christian Wiede, Head of Embedded AI, are researching on intelligent AI solutions for various areas of life with their team. From industry to medicine applications in the fields of »Machine Learning« and »Computer Vision« promote innovation, sustainability and security in our society. »We create user-friendly and resource-efficient AI algorithms for small systems with maximum data security that run on any hardware. Through our extensive know-how in sensor technology and artificial neural networks, we are able to reduce performance overhead on a large scale.« Read now which projects and applications the colleagues from the department are researching.

We are happy to announce our first workshop on PET Electronics & Technologies, a forum for international research and academia to meet and exchange the latest developments in this field. The event is co-organized by Fraunhofer IMS and Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH. The objective of this workshop is to define the future demands on PET electronics and data analysis and to discuss these demands with the experts on electronics, chip development, and data scientists.

At embedded world 2023, we will showcase three applications at once: our newest member in the RISC-V family, called AIRISC-SAFETY, our LiDAR camera TinyOwl, and our latest collaboration to perform gesture recognition on a smartwatch using the smartphone and our software framework AIfES. Learn more below.

The Fraunhofer IMS welcomes a new member to its RISC-V processor product family AIRISC - the AIRISC-SAFETY. The AIRISC-SAFETY has been successfully certified as »ASIL-D ready« (automotive safety integrity level) by TÜV SGS according to ISO 26262 and is now ready for the market. The certification means that industrial customers directly receive a safety element including a manual and can thus incorporate the AIRISC-SAFETY into their own chips as a basic element for functional safety. The TÜV certificate for the AIRISC-SAFETY was already awarded in December 2022.

Double power for a German microelectronics ecosystem: We are pleased to announce together with FMD - Forschungsfabrik Mikroelektronik Deutschland that the projects FMD-QNC and the Microelectronics Academy have officially started. In the FMD-QNC project, Fraunhofer IMS provides tools to advance next-generation chip design in the quantum domain. FMD-QNC is as much an important part of the »European Chips Act« as the Microelectronics Academy. For the implementation of a national chip design ecosystem, the Fraunhofer IMS has already announced the start of the competence center CHIPS.NRW in May, which establishes an academy in chip design in North Rhine-Westphalia with various universities and companies from the region.

Intelligent power switches with the RISC-V processor AIRISC, predictive maintenance with embedded AI, RFID in metallic environments or LiDAR for 3D environment recognition – at SPS, Fraunhofer IMS presents a wide range of applications for safer and more sustainable production conditions. From November 8 to 10, you can get to know the demonstrators and exhibits in hall 7A at booth 524 at the Nuremberg Exhibition Center.

Long-term monitoring of important physiological parameters of the brain, blood circulation or eye contributes enormously to prevention in the medical field. The pressure sensors from Fraunhofer IMS have shown a unique long-term stability and high accuracy in application environments over many years. In addition, they are predestined for telemetrically communicating implants due to their low energy requirements. Several of these medical devices have a CE approval. One of them even has already gone through the Medical Device Regulation (MDR) process.

In the 2022 ScienceForGood crowdfunding competition of the Fraunhofer Future Foundation, it's »On your marks, research, go!«. Six research teams compete together with their heartfelt projects. From October 6, 2022 to November 30, 2022, the scientists of the participating Fraun-hofer institutes have time to convince as many people as possible of their idea and reach their funding goal. The Fraunhofer Future Foundation supports this commitment with co-funding and prize money. The decision on this is up to civil society.

Medical implants, community outreach, and looking to the digitized future of healthcare - Michael Görtz takes you inside his work and gives you insights into the life of a scientist.

Seven Fraunhofer Institutes are working on automated production technologies for innovative mRNA therapeutics. Fraunhofer IMS is contributing with the developing of the sensor technology and an AI-based data analysis to the lighthouse project.