Bavarian core technologies for Europe

Organised by Airbus Defence and Space and Invest in Bavaria, the workshop focused on filling key project roles and on the use of high-performance multicore processors for safety applications in central industrial electronics.

Modern electronics and software applications, often brought together under the term 'industry 4.0' also increasingly need capabilities that are crucial to safety. These capabilities form the basis of future applications, such as for autonomous driving on the roads. Here, all sensors need to work together reliably in order to make vital decisions, such as avoiding obstacles independently. Both safe software implementation and reliable high-speed data processing devices, such as so-called multicore processors, are therefore essential, providing high computing capacity for analysing the data from the various sensors.

Fundamental research into multicore processors for use in critical safety situations has already been conducted successfully through various topics in the ECSEL programme. The EMCROSS project, presented at the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology by Mr Meilinger and Mr Dämbkes from Airbus Defence and Space, will build on this fundamental research and implement it into future products.