The scope of an EU-funded programme aimed at making European electronics and semiconductor companies more energy efficient is now becoming clear.
The €12.6m three-year programme, called END, will involve the development of a range of design techniques and semiconductor design platforms.
It will also create modelling, simulation, design and EDA techniques for semiconductor devices and sub-systems.
The design of more efficient power supply systems is another aspect for the programme.
“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 at STMicroelectronics.
Specific projects will be the development of power models for non-bulk CMOS devices, a unified low-power design methodology for ICs and the creation of energy-efficient IP for SoCs.
The project partners include: STMicroelectronics, NXP Semiconductors and ON Semiconductor, Slovakia as well as a number of universities and research organisations.