Scale4Edge: Scalable infrastructure for edge computing

Scale4Edge is a joint project funded by the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research), which aims to significantly reduce the currently relatively long development times and high development costs of application-specific edge components (platform concept). The approach pursued in the project is based on providing a commercial ecosystem for ...

Duration: 05/2020 - 12/2025

Funded by: BMBF

Contact: apl. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Müller

For 2863 - Ultrawideband Sampling

The metrology of wireless communication has to properly represent the complex interaction of the digital and analog signal domains. The high bandwidth at THz frequencies allows for extreme radio frequency (RF) bandwidth and hence also very large baseband bandwidth. In the baseband the broadband analog signals are digitized by broadband ...

Duration: 08/2019 - 12/2024

Funded by: DFG

FOR 2863 - Active THz Transceiver Components

Compared to radios operating at purely optical wavelengths or RF/microwave frequencies, the combination of extremely high absolute bandwidths and high relative bandwidths in the THz frequency regime, paired with the severe performance limitations of technologies operating in the so-called "THz-gap", imposes unique challenges on modern digital ...

Duration: 08/2019 - 12/2024

Funded by: DFG

NyPhE - Nyquist Silicon Photonics Engine

Exponentially growing data traffic around the world leads to increasing demand for high speed server communication in data centers. Future communication systems have to reach data rates well beyond 100 Gbits/s and low power dissipation is becoming an increasingly important characteristic. Therefore, novel transceiver concepts are required to enable ...

Duration: 04/2019 - 03/2022

Funded by: BMBF

Contact: Christian Kress, Tobias Schwabe, M.Sc.

FOR 2863: MEtrology for TERAhertz COMmunication (Meteracom)

For the advance of THz communication systems, the capability to perform precise measurements is crucial. Metrology at THz frequencies is however still in its infancy and as of today it only covers detector calibration for characterization of ultrafast devices and measurement uncertainty analysis of different spectrometer types available at THz ...

Duration: 01/2019 - 12/2024

Funded by: DFG

Contact: apl. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Müller, Meysam Bahmanian

SPP 2111 - Ultra-Wideband Photonically Assisted Analog-to-Digital Converters (PACE) - Phase 2

Silicon-based analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), which operate at sampling rates in the double-digit GSa/s range, are state of the art today. Although these converters now operate at unprecedented sampling rates, the effective number of bits (ENOB) and analog bandwidth are improving only slowly. A major obstacle to further improvements in ...

Duration: 08/2018 - 03/2025

Funded by: DFG

Contact: Maxim Weizel, M.Sc.

SPP 2111 - PONyDAC II - Precise Optical Nyquist Pulse Synthesizer DAC

Fast digital-to-analog converters (DAC) are indispensable components for modern signal processing systems. Bandwidth and effective number of bits (ENOB) are important metrics for the performance of DACs. At the same time, those parameters constitute a trade-off in the design of a DAC: The more broadband the DAC, the less typically the ENOB. This is ...

Duration: 07/2018 - 03/2025

Funded by: DFG

Contact: Christian Kress

Automotive VLC - Open Hardware Project Visible Light Communication (1st project phase)

Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are becoming more and more the primary source of illumination in different indoor and outdoor environments. Besides their illumination function, their ability for fast switching enables a new kind of application, namely Visible Light Communication (VLC). VLC uses the multi-THz wide, license free visible light bands of ...

Duration: 06/2018 - 12/2023

COALA - Electro-Optical MIMO Radar Systems for Autonomous Driving

Our specialist group develops highly integrated electro-optical MIMO radar sensors for applications in the field of highly automated driving in cooperation with partners from industry and research institutes. In contrast to other sensor concepts for automated driving, such as lidar (light detection and ranging), VLC (visible light communication) or ...

Duration: 03/2018 - 12/2023

SPP 2111: Electronic-Photonic Integrated Systems for Ultrafast Signal Processing

The Priority Programme “Electronic-Photonic Integrated Systems for Ultrafast Signal Processing” (SPP 2111) is a recently installed programme in the emerging field of integrated electronic-photonic systems using novel nanophotonic/nanoelectronic semiconductor technologies. The programme is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and ...

Duration: 01/2018 - 12/2025

Funded by: DFG