Year: 2025

On Friday, March 21, 2025, the 18th Embedded Talk took place at FAU in Erlangen. The topic of this event, which was held in English for the first time, was “Open Source Hardware - Multiple Incentives, multiple Pitfalls”. Around 70 participants took the opportunity to discuss current research and dev...

At the IPC APEX EXPO 2025 in Anaheim, California, the paper “Improving THT-AOI Image Classification through Federated Learning: A Study on Model Performance and Training Stability under Various Data Distributions” by Ben Rachinger, Nils Thielen, Sven Meier, ESI member Prof. Jörg Franke and Prof. Flo...

FAU ESI will be represented at the BayernInnovativ joint stand in Hall 2 (Stand A42) from March 31 to April 4, 2025. We will be showing a demonstrator with the ALPACA chip there. The chip, called ALPACA, integrates 64 computing cores developed in-house at the chair of Hardware-Software-Co-Design by...

The master’s thesis “Clock-Tree–Aware Resource-Consumption Models for Embedded SoC Platforms” by Eva Dengler was awarded WITA 2025 prize for the best master’s thesis of the Fachgruppe Frauen und Informatik. The thesis was supervised by Peter Wägemann and Simon Schuster at the chair of Computer Scien...

The demo “ReProVide: Query Optimization and Near-Data Processing on Reconfigurable SoCs for Big Data Analysis” by Tobias Hahn won the Best Demo Award at the ‘BTW conference 2025’ in Bamberg. Prof. Meyer-Wegener received the award “Best Demo Award” on behalf of the project ReProVide. Weitere In...

At the “5th International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems” (ROBOVIS 2025) in Porto, the paper “Learn Where I Can Walk: Auto-Labeling of Walked Areas Using Monocular Camera Trajectory” by Helmut Engelhardt, Matthias Kalenberg, ESI member Prof. Jörg Franke and Dr. Sina ...

The FAPS chair of ESI member Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Franke has won the “Best Freestyle Demonstrator” award at the OE-A Competition. The award was presented for a fully additively manufactured light bulb developed at FAPS. The demonstrator shows the combination of additive manufacturing with printed ele...

Not wearing glasses despite poor eyesight? Unimaginable for many. While visual defects are usually treated promptly with suitable visual aids, this is rarely the case with diminishing hearing: in Germany, six million people over the age of 60 have moderate or severe hearing loss. But only around thr...

One of the biggest challenges in modern electronics production is the increasing complexity of manufacturing processes, driven in particular by ever smaller dimensions and increasing functional integration. Numerous influencing parameters and their interactions determine product quality and are beco...

ESI Speaker Prof. Teich receives the master's prize on behalf of Ms. Arockiaraj for her master's thesis “Selective Utility-Aware Data Transmission Scheduling for Energy-Harvesting IoT Gateways”, which she wrote at the Chair of Hardware-Software-Co-Design.