Embedded Systems

OCEAN12 - Opportunity to Carry European Autonomous driviNg further with FDSOI technology up to 12nm node

For the last years, elec­tronic com­po­nents be­come more and more wide­spread in the au­to­mo­tive in­dus­try. Today they cre­ate a su­pe­rior value for the final cus­tomer and rep­re­sent an im­por­tant vec­tor of dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion in the in­dus­try. The shar­ing econ­omy model, which dri­ves in­no­va­tion strate­gies in Smart mo­bil­ity, will fur­ther in­crease the need for safe, cost ef­fi­cient, se­cure, re­li­able and un­hack­able op­er­a­tions. This will en­large costs of elec­tron­ics and soft­ware in the total cost of a ve­hi­cle.

OCEAN12 will bring very con­crete tech­no­log­i­cal so­lu­tions and cor­re­spond­ing demon­stra­tors for this prob­lem. Based on the in­no­v­a­tive Fully De­pleted Sil­i­con On In­su­la­tor (FD-SOI) tech­nol­ogy, the pro­ject will de­velop new proces­sors and ap­pli­ca­tions de­sign, which will lever­age FD-SOI to offer the in­dus­try’s low­est power con­sum­ing proces­sor and com­po­nents, mainly for au­to­mo­tive and aero­nau­tic ap­pli­ca­tions.

The OCEAN12’s team will also de­velop a tech­nol­ogy plat­form ben­e­fit­ting from FDSOI de­sign’s ex­treme low leak­age and op­er­at­ing volt­age (Vdd) scal­a­bil­ity at­tained thanks to re­verse and for­ward body bi­as­ing (RBB/FBB) of the in­te­grate cir­cuit and its power sys­tem ar­chi­tec­ture. This high per­for­mance, low power so­lu­tion will en­able the next strate­gic gen­er­a­tions of smart ve­hi­cles. This plat­form will rely on: a pilot line fa­cil­ity ca­pa­ble to man­u­fac­ture ad­vanced sub­strates com­pat­i­ble with 12FDX tech­nol­ogy, the de­f­i­n­i­tion of path find­ing so­lu­tions to push 12FDX tech­nol­ogy per­for­mances and sub­strates so­lu­tions for in­no­v­a­tive sen­sors, the de­vel­op­ment of in­no­v­a­tive de­signs at the fore­front of state of the art to en­hance FDSOI ca­pac­ity and guar­an­tee the high­est level of in­te­grated so­lu­tions, the man­u­fac­tur­ing of high per­for­mance ICs using all palette of FDSOI tech­nolo­gies

The pro­duced highly in­te­grated, re­li­able, ul­tra-low power and lower cost com­po­nents will be in­te­grated in com­plex em­bed­ded sys­tems ac­ces­si­ble to the au­to­mo­tive in­dus­try sup­pli­ers, as well as man­u­fac­tur­ers, an­swer­ing strate­gic chal­lenges of fu­ture au­tonomous ve­hi­cles gen­er­a­tions (land or air). Sev­eral prod­uct demon­stra­tors are tar­geted: high end mi­cro­con­troller plug and play board, high per­for­mance sen­sors data fu­sion, highly in­te­grated low power video pro­cess­ing, awak­ing sys­tems.

The pro­ject will high­light Eu­rope’s unique lead­ing po­si­tion on FDSOI tech­nol­ogy, in­te­grat­ing the en­tire man­u­fac­tur­ing chain - from sub­strate sup­pli­ers and foundries to TIER-1 and OEM, in­volv­ing acad­e­mia and RTO’s. By doing so, it will se­cure a unique FDSOI roadmap be­yond the 22FDX.

The OCEAN12-Pro­ject is funded by the ger­man fed­eral min­istry of ed­u­ca­tion and the Eu­ro­pean Union (EU).

Fur­ther In­for­ma­tion

Par­tic­i­pat­ing Team Mem­bers

Bring­mann, Oliver

Frischknecht, Adrian

Pe­ter­son, Dustin