The Artemis Innovation Pilot Project EMC2 (Embedded multi-core systems for mixed criticality applications in dynamic and changeable real-time environments) has just started this April 2014. During the kick-off meeting, held in Munich, Germany, on 7th and 8th of April, CISTER/INESC-TEC was represented by Eduardo Tovar.
EMC2 is the largest ICT project in Europe with nearly 100 partners and a total budget of 94 Million Euros. Infineon’s CEO, Mr. Reinhard Ploss and the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology, State Secretary, Mr. Franz Josef Pschierer were in charge of the formal opening of the project’s kick-off meeting. The agenda also included talks by the Acting Executive director of ARTEMIS and the Head of BMW Research.
EMC2 starts from the observation that the field of embedded systems is undergoing a disruptive evolution, where different types of systems and components are interconnected, thus reducing the boundaries between application domains, and placing the focus on interoperability. In addition, the increasing use of multi- and many-core processors brings additional challenges to the development of critical and real-time applications, and the process of developing new systems is inefficient and expensive.
CISTER/INESC-TEC’s team involved in the EMC2 project, led by Eduardo Tovar, will participate in several of the research activities, particularly in the work packages titled “Executable Application Models and Design Tools for Mixed-Critical, Multi-Core Embedded Systems”, “Dynamic Runtime Environments and Services” and “Multi-core Hardware Architectures and Concepts”, and also in two of the “Living Labs”.
CISTER/INESC-TEC and Critical Software are also leading a use case in the area of automotive, and involved in the use case in the area of avionics, led by the Airbus Group. The project also includes other industrial and academic partners from renowned companies such as Ericsson, BMW, Airbus, Volvo, Philips Healthcare, Siemens, Thales and Infineon Technologies.
EMC2 is a direct result of the effort developed by CISTER/INESC-TEC in the last open call for research projects in the strategic ARTEMIS initiative alongside with the project DEWI (Dependable Embedded Wireless Infrastructure) which started in March 2014. Both projects focus on applicability and industry and it is expected that it will encourage potential technology transfer activities in the future.
More information at: http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/projects/emc2/ and http://www.artemis-ju.eu/project/index/view?project=56
