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Electric Vehicle FP7 Funding Information Meeting
SMMT 28th June 2010
Helen Finch
Collaborative R&D FundingInfineon UK
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Infineon Background
The Challenge: Why? What? How? Timeline
Future plans
2 Collaborative Projects now running
First Collaborative Projects – The Story So Far....
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Infineon at a Glance
The Company
Infineon provides semiconductor and system solutions, focusing on three central needs of our modern society:
Energy Efficiency, Communications and Security
Revenue in FY 2009: 3.027 billion EUR
Some 25,216 employees worldwide (as of March 2010)
Strong technology portfolio with about 22,900 patents and patent applications
More than 28 R&D locations
Germany‘s largest semiconductor company
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Infineon Automotive – Business Areas
Compute
ActuateSense
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Infineon UK - Background
Setup in 1999 to specialise in the design of 32 bit Micro-Controllers and related subsystems Drawing on local skill set in Bristol region of the UK
Registered Office for IFX UK Ltd R&D Engineers ~50 Sales (Field based) ~15
Since 2006 focus has been solely on developing IP for Automotive silicon chips assembled in Germany and Asia; Key site for development of the TriCore processor Key site for 32bit system peripherals
Strong R&D focus with clear route to market By 2012 1/3 of new cars world wide will contain IP developed
by IFX UK
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Infineon UK - Strategic Challenges
The challenges:
R&D work in UK all funded by IFX AG, need to drive cost competitiveness -> EU Funding provides an opportunity
Contacts and potential collaborators Automotive orientated -> Expand our own network
IFX UK operations not widely recognised inside UK -> Raise our profile
We face internal pressure from low cost sites – driving economic efficiency and maintaining technical excellence is key to survival!
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Collaborative R&D Funding: Benefits
Funding Income Reduced engineering rate compared with other sites ->
increased possibility for: Job retention
Recruitment opportunities
Expansion of R&D base
Political impact within organisation
Collaboration Extends field of Impact & Influence Expands context for R&D activity – better overall knowledge Raises profile Staff retention – more interesting and varied work Fosters links into other parts of supply chain at technical level
(e.g. S/W and tools providers in our case) Generates future business development opportunities
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Collaborative R&D Funding: Getting Started
Investment in full-time person to make it happen!
Review of Opportunities Funding Schemes and Calls EU
UK
Local RDA
Match areas of interest and activity Interview main innovators internally -> ideas Stick to core areas – no big diversions! E.g. Multi-core + Environment & Safety
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Collaborative R&D Funding: Finding Opportunities
Networking New contacts External
Internal
Publicise wish to „get involved‟ Personal contact essential
Brokerage Events Find interesting & compatible projects Stay informed Join consortia
Information Gathering Mailing lists NCPs CORDIS Network Training & Workshops
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Infineon UK EU Collaborative Funding – ARTEMIS
Decision to focus on joint EU/national ARTEMIS programme Near-market embedded systems Large projects aimed at improving overall EU competitiveness
in embedded systems across all sectors UK funds 33.3%, EU funds 16.7% -> 50% funding overall
Participant in 3 proposals submitted to ARTEMIS 2009 call in Sept: RECOMP POLLUX SAFARI
RECOMP and POLLUX selected Project kickoffs in March and April 2010
IFX UK funding of €1.7M through ARTEMIS 2009 call 3 years duration ~10% Bristol Design Centre running costs on average
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Infineon UK ARTEMIS ProjectsThe Road to Funding – Timeline
2008/2009: Ramp up learning curve (several months) Understand available funding opportunities and how we might fit
Network, network, network!
March/April „09: join consortia May: Initial Proposal submitted June: confirm buy-in from IFX senior management August: Full Project Proposal November: Projects selected
2010: Jan: Invitation to start Negotiations Feb: Detailed budget info -> TSB Feb: start of Consortium Agreement discussions Mar/April: Project Kickoff meetings May/June: Individual work package kickoffs -> start work! June: National Grant Agreement letter
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Infineon UK ARTEMIS ProjectsThe Road to Funding - Ongoing
Still in progress: Consortium Agreements (dozens of legal departments) Defines how partners will work together (Management structure, IP ownership,
dispute resolution....)
ARTEMIS GA
3-year programme of activities for each project Collaborative working Milestones & Deliverables Reporting Quarterly claims against grant – UK and EU portions Audit
Develop trust & identify opportunities Further collaborations Academic relationships
Extend level of participation for future projects: Project coordination? Aim to influence direction of future WPs (ARTEMISIA)
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POLLUX“Process Oriented Electrical Control Unit”
Summary Architecture, component design & prototyping of electric/hybrid vehicle
embedded systems architecture. Complementary to the ENIAC (1st call) “E3CAR” project. Project initiated by Infineon Munich
Budget Total project budget: €36M Total IFX-UK budget: €1.8M, 154MM Total IFX-UK funding requested 50%: €900K National contribution - €600K EU contribution - €300K
Total UK National funding requested (3 partners): €1M
Consortium 35 participants from 12 countries; Includes Fiat, ST, NXP, ON Semi, Continental, Valeo, PSA Peugeot Citroen,
Thales, QinetiQ (UK) & University of Sheffield (UK), Infineon Austria
IFX UK main Work Packages: Multi-core microcontroller architecture: specifications, design and
development, including FPGA Subsystems integration and demonstration
Website: www.artemis-pollux.eu
ARTEMIS POLLUX Project Title Presentation - 15
Pollux in a nutshellthe consortium
OEMTier1,
EngineeringTier,
Embedded systems
SME
Researchsystem
specification
sub-systemspecification
hardwaresoftware
R&D
sub-systemintegration
systemintegration
Demonstrationverificationvalidation
embeddedsystems
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RECOMP“Reduced certification costs using trusted multi-core platforms”
Summary Isolation of safety-critical parts of systems using multi-core
technology, allowing S/W updates without need for re-certification.
Budget Total project budget: €26M Total IFX-UK budget: €1.95M, 152MM Total IFX-UK funding requested ~40%: €815K National contribution - €490K EU contribution - €325K
Total UK National funding requested (3 partners): €835K
Consortium 41 participants from 8 countries Includes Kone, Delphi, TUV SUD, EADS, Intel, PSA, Thales (UK),
Wittenstein (UK)
IFX UK main Work Packages: Dual Core, FPGA & Platform Development Coordination of Platform-based Project Demonstrators UK coordination (with TSB - national funding authority).
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Future Challenges – Next year and Beyond
Changes in usage and programming models for microcontrollers in Embedded Systems: Increasing S/W complexity & diversity -> Hardware cost Automatic (model-based) code development Serial code unsuited to multicore architectures – sub-optimal.
Model-based control strategies e.g. For automotive powertrain Increased computational load
Looking to define specific challenges over next year Faster vs. Smarter: paradigm shift needed? Optimise and configure so that inherent parallelism in real-world
environment is maintained through S/W development & mapping to H/W
Task encapsulation to address safety requirements for ES e.g. In EV applications.
View to forming our next microcontroller development phase, starting around 2012....