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Dr. alex bartzas
- 1. The Microlab experiencein bridging the gap between academia and industry EU - Israel Seminar on Technology Transfer with an Emphasis on Clean Tech Tel Aviv, November 25-26, 2012 Name: Dr. Alex Bartzas Microprocessors and Digital Systems Lab National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- 2. Academia and Industry Mainly through EC-funded research projects and HiPEAC NoE Technology Academia Clusters Industry (Microlab/NTUA) (Corallia) Nov. 25, 2012 2
- 3. Clusters supported byCorallia Nano/Microelectronics Space Technologies and Gaming Technologies & based Systems and Applications Cluster Creative Content Cluster Applications Cluster Microlab is a member of all three clusters Members: 22 Members: 130 Members: 22 Initiation: 2009 Initiation: 2004 Initiation: 2011 Turnover: > € 100 Turnover: > € 5.7 bil. Turnover: > € 1.2 bil. mil. Employment: > 5000 Employment: > 1000 Nov. 25, 2012 Employment: > 600 3
- 4. Services to ClusterMembers • Acquisition of third party funding (R&D and non R&D projects, VCs, BAs, Banks) • One Stop Shop (consulting, mentoring, coaching -mainly- for founders) • Networking Events (networking days, user days, open days, carpe diem, webinars) • Internationalisation Events (trade fairs, exhibitions, roadshows, etc.) • Web presence (social networks, knowledge base, cluster mapping) • Incubation Area (office space and amenities, data centre and management) • Business Area (meeting rooms and amenities, printing services, telepresence etc.) • Exhibition Area (physical and virtual booths) • Job finder (career days, career matchmaker platform) • Public Relations (Newsletter, News-Stream, NewsWatch, branding) • Training events (business acceleration programme, patenting, etc.) Nov. 25, 2012 4
- 5. Application domains weare active • Run-time resource and data management, application and Multimedia data mapping, design space exploration, middleware development Trusted/Secure • Secure data management for smart-grid applications, computing trusted middleware Medical • RTOS and real-time applications, low-power software Microelectroni • Design of reliable HW in the deep sub-micron context, cs functional and parametric reliability Space • Implementation of computer vision algorithms as HW IPs • Run-time resource and data management, application and Games data mapping, middleware development • Adaptive control of PV module parameters, run-time Energy management Nov. 25, 2012 5
- 6. Space: What isour work? The exploration of Mars is one of the main goals for both NASA and ESA, as confirmed by past and recent activities • The last 15 years there are a number of on-orbit and surface missions to Mars • Our projects are part of the ExoMars mission (scheduled for 2018) Nov. 25, 2012 6
- 7. Collaboration with industry •European Space Agency (ESA) Projects • SPARTAN • SEXTANT • Develop IP kernels for computer vision algorithms targeting to rover navigation for Mars terrain • ESA-compatible VHDL • Mapped onto Xilinx Virtex-6 board • Optimized C/C++ code • Running onto 150MIPS processor (space-oriented device) TRASYS GMV AEROSPACE and DEFENCE CNES Nov. 25, 2012 7 National Technical University of Athens Democritus University of Thrace
- 8. Medical: What isour work? • Tackling societal needs • Reduced healthcare costs as a result of reduced need for hospitalization, and clinician visits through increased remote monitoring • Increase access to best practice care for patients living in remote geographical locations • More efficient use of Governmental and Insurance healthcare resources by ensuring patient concordance with treatment protocols through remote monitoring • The applications we are working on aim at the next generation, integrated solutions for personalized treatment and management of patients • integrated solution for patients with chronic renal failure • integrated autonomous device for the monitoring and the personalized management of chronic wounds Nov. 25, 2012 8
- 9. Collaboration with industry • Collaboration through E.C. IP-Projects • SWAN-iCare • Nephron+ • Developing real-time and low-power embedded SW applications running on the wearable medical devices • Reading data from the sensors, handling the actuators and relaying data to the patients and medical personnel Sensors Actuators Wireless comm. Embedded real-time SW, Nov. 25, 2012 integrated control 9
- 10. Energy: What isour work? Problem: Power loss due to partial shading of the PV array and the PV module • Conventional topologies of modules deal with partial shading by placing bypass diodes across group of cells • These bypass diodes are effective in dealing with mismatch losses between the groups of cells • A shaded group of cells is bypassed when shaded in order to allow the rest of the module to operate on a higher current • The power potentially produced by the bypassed group is lost • When the incident shade affects all the groups in a similar way, the entire module operates on a lower current since there is no option of bypassing the shaded cells. Nov. 25, 2012 10
- 11. Collaboration with industry • Close collaboration with IMEC, vzw., Belgium • Partial funding of Ph.D. researchers • Internships • Our proposal: Intra-module configurable cell interconnection topology • Instead of using bypass diodes, switches can be used to alter the interconnection of the cells within the module. • Cells with similar operating conditions are grouped together. Nov. 25, 2012 11
- 12. Collaboration with Industryand Academia Industrial Academic Nov. 25, 2012 12
- 13. www.corallia.org www.microlab.ntua.gr Thank You! Questions? More information: Alex Bartzas, Ph.D. alexis@microlab.ntua.gr