During the five-year funding period, which started in November 2012, the cluster receives approximately €34 million of subsidies.
On April 3 cfaed submitted one of eight draft proposals for "TUD Clusters of Excellence" new funding line.
[4] The new technologies for electronic information processing are inspired by innovative materials such as silicon nanowires, carbon nanotubes or polymers or based on completely new conceptions such as the chemical chip or circuit fabrication methods by self-assembling structures e.g. DNA-Origami.
The orchestration of these new devices into heterogeneous information processing systems with focus on their resilience and energy-efficiency is also part of cfaed's research program.
Examples are cooperative traffic coordination systems, robotic-aided tele-surgery or innovative e-learning methods.
In a comprehensive approach, the research spans from materials to heterogeneous information processing systems and vice versa.
The design of novel and fault tolerant computing algorithms that make use of transistors‘ multi-functionality is investigated and silicon nanowires are explored as a selective sensor platform for biomolecules.
In 2015, a flexible lightweight diagnostic platform was realized that enables cost efficient high-volume delivery to medical institutions worldwide.
habil Michael Mertig Nanostructures made from DNA allow to arrange functional materials in a scalable way to create self-assembled electronic, optoelectronic and nanophotonic devices that complement established silicon-based technologies.
Brigitte Voit The unconventional approach lays the foundation of transistor-based microfluidics for processing chemicals as information carriers.
Jochen Fröhlich This path prepares the rapid and efficient implementation of heterogeneous systems by addressing adaption inflexibilities of current hard-and software designs.
Reliable information processing with unreliable and adjustable components is being researched, taking into account the projected heterogeneity of future systems and the fault characteristics of new materials-inspired technologies.
The main achievements are reflected in a high number of publications at top-tier conferences (e.g. INFOCOM, NSDI, ICDCS) and best paper awards (e.g. DSN, USENIX, ACM hat).
Dr. h. c. Gerhard Fettweis HAEC aims at enabling integrated hardware/software system solutions for distributed networked applications to be optimized for high adaptivity and energy efficiency during design as well as deployment, without compromising in performance.
During Phase I (years 1-4), single technology demonstrators have been developed to illustrate and verify the achieved research results.