Noisy Electromagnetic Fields - A Technological Platform for Chip-to-Chip Communication in the 21st Century (NEMF21)

1. Noisy Electromagnetic Fields – A Technological Platform for Chip-to-Chip Communication in the 21st Century (NEMF21) A Future Emerging Technology Grant funded by the European Commission under Horizon2020 FET-Open 1 2014/2015 – novel ideas for radically new technologies

2. Noisy Electromagnetic Fields – A Technological Platform for Chip-to-Chip Communication in the 21st Century (NEMF21)

3. Noisy Electromagnetic Fields - A Technological Platform for Chip-to-Chip Communication in the 21st Century - NEMF21 Electronic devices of the future will use wireless communication down to the chip level. An interdisciplinary, Nottingham-led, consortium of mathematicians, physicists and electrical engineers will provide the design tools for wireless Chip-to-Chip (C2C) communication, which will be essential for this future technology. The scientific challenges will be tackled with the help of substantial funding from Horizon 2020, amounting in total to 3.4 Mio Euros.

4. Agenda 9:00 - 9:10 Introduction 9:10 - 9:30 NEMF21 - the proposal: a summary … Gregor Tanner 9:30 - 10:15 Brief presentations by each group: Gabriele Gradoni (UoN – Maths), David Thomas (UoN, EE)Johannes Russer (TUM – EE), Josef Nossek (TUM – Signal Processing) Ulrich Kuhl (CNRS), Damienne Bajon (ISAE), Sidina Wane (NXP)Ingo Wolff c/o Gregor Tanner (IMST), Peter Thoma (CST) 10:15 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 12:00 Work Programme Discussion - Chair: Gregor TannerDiscussion of each WP including questions for the WP leader - 10 mins per WP12:00 - 13:00 Refining work programme and time scales; planning of research visits andworkshops. Any other matters arising.14:00 - 15:00 Lab tour: David Thomas & Christopher Smartt

5. Looking back: 634 proposals received … 254 above threshold …24 funded NEMF21: 1st October 2015 – 30th September 2018 Project Officer: Antonio Loredan Antonio.LOREDAN@ec.europa.eu Status: All parties have signed the contract Budget: € 3.42 Mio • What needs to be done until October? • Consortium Agreement • Contract between CST and Consortium • Recruitment • Planning of visits, network meetings including kick-off meeting (Oct 2015), training, Data Management Plan, web page, etc

6. Budget - Overview

7. 3rd party (in-kind contributions)

8. Work Packages and WP leader – Time scales

9. WP No: 1 Start/End Month: 1 - 6 Lead Partner: TUM Participants: UoN (7) TUM(6) LPMC(7) NXP(6) • WP Title: Measurement set up and C2C design plan • Objectives: Defining benchmarks provided by NXP and IMST; setting up measurement equipment and design plan. • Tasks: • Measurements (frequency and time domain) done on PCB-based demonstrator up to 6 GHz in anechoic chamber and reverberation chamber (T1.1 UoN); • Measurements (time domain) done on chip-based devices up to 6 GHz (T1.2 TUM); • Measurement set-up and measurements (frequency domain) on antenna arrangements up to 67 GHz (T1.3 LPMC); • Planning of technological realization of integrated antennas and integrated circuits for wireless C2C for two-port and multi-port (MIMO) wireless links (T1.4 NXP). • Deliverables: • D1.1 Procedures for measuring EMFs in C2C environment; D1.2 Roadmap for C2C design plan.

10. WP No: 2 Start/End Month: 1 - 6 Lead Partner: UoN Participants: UoN(13) TUM(12) ISAE(6) IMST(12) • WP Title:Method and Software Evaluation • Objectives: Carrying out model simulations on benchmarks defined in WP1 with existing software from UoN, IMST, ISAE and CST. Creating data pool. • Tasks: • Implementing and testing CST software on benchmark systems defined in WP1 (in kind contribution from CST) (T2.1 TUM); • Development and testing of information theoretic performance measures for benchmark signals and compared against numerical results (T2.2 TUM); • In-house TLM code, IMST and CST code (in kind contributions) (T2.3 UoN) applied; • IMST code applied to benchmarks (T2.4 IMST); • In-house code applied to benchmarks (T2.5 ISAE); • Data pool created as part of DMP (T2.6 UoN). • Deliverables: • D2.1 Procedures for modelling EMF for C2Cs & assessing information theoretic performance; D2.2: Data pool for results from WP1 and WP2.

11. WP No: 3 Start/End Month: 7 - 21 Lead Partner: NXP Participants: UoN(8) LPMC(10) IMST(6) NXP(15) • WP Title: C2C Antenna realisations and measurements • Objectives: Planning, manufacturing and testing of promising antenna arrangements. • Tasks: • Technological realization of monolithically integrated antennas for C2C communications. Both two-port and multi-port (MIMO) wireless links will be built and tested; antenna radiation pattern will be measured (T3.1 NXP); • Measurement of antenna and system components in in-house anechoic chamber and MIMO wireless links tested in in-house reverberation chamber (T3.2 UoN); • New antenna and shape design functionality based on wave front shaping will be designed. The radiation properties software control antenna will be tested experimentally (T3.3 LPMC); • Design knowledge and simulations for new antenna forms using the professional field solver EMPIRE will be provided by IMST (T3.4 IMST). • Deliverables: D3.1 Antenna prototypes on mm and cm scale; D3.2 Measurement results for antenna radiation patterns.

12. WP No: 4 Start/End Months: 7 - 21 Lead Partner: TUM Participants: UoN(9) TUM(15) LPMC(8) • WP Title: N – point measurement of noisy EM fields • Objectives: Measuring the propagation of field correlation functions and handling noisy and modulated signal transfer. • Tasks: • Measurement device for stochastic EM fields; simultaneous 2-point scanning using a two-channel sampling oscilloscope. The radiated EMI of C2C ICs supplied by NXP will be experimentally investigated (T4.1 TUM); • A matrix measurement set up will be built to measure time dependent n-point correlation functions. EMI and noisy field environments will be created from noise sources (PCB demonstrator) and reverberant chambers (T4.2 UoN); • Multi-port field measurements in the frequency domain will be set up to investigate the fields and their correlations in realistic environments. The spatial correlations of the fields and intensities will be investigated as well as their statistical properties on frequency and devices (T4.3 LPMC). • Deliverables: • D4.1 Efficient measurement set-up and protocol for measuring near field correlation functions;

13. WP No: 5 Start/End Months: 7 -21 Lead Partner: LPMC Participants: TUM(15) LPMC(19) ISAE(15) IMST(9) • WP Title: C2C antenna modelling and signal processing in noisy environment • Objectives: Development of modelling tools for determining the performance of antenna arrangements in a C2C environment based on physicals EMF solvers and advanced signal processing design techniques. • Tasks: • Wireless MIMO links (frequency bands, transmit power). Design methods for decoupling & matching multiports (DMM) (implementation, information performance).Antenna arrangements (high gain, low direction sensitivity) (T5.1 TUM); • Hybrid noise and deterministic part of the EM field will be developed using wave chaos and Random Matrix Theory (RMT). Active and passive elements for directed signal transmission using concepts of ‘particle like scattering states’ and diffraction less beams, see WP3. (T5.2 LPMC); • Transverse Wave Formulation (TWF) modeling and hybrid TWF-TLM methods will be used to model C2C antenna pattern (T5.3 ISAE). • FDTD for antenna arrangements for MIMO devices and wireless C2C. (T5.4 IMST) • Deliverables: • D5.1 Numerical tool-box to support antenna design decisions; D5.2 Signal processing protocols including suitable coding strategies using physics based concepts, EM signals and noise characteristics.

14. WP No: 6 Start/End Months: 7 -21 Lead Partner: UoN Participants: UoN(32) TUM(15) IMST(15) • WP Title: Numerical propagation methods for noisy EM-field • Objectives: To develop and assess techniques for numerical propagation of stochastic EM fields and for modelling signals in a noisy environment including EMI • Tasks: • Stochastic EM field propagation methods in terms of field-field correlation matrices. Propagation in terms of exact field solvers ( CST and IMST,WP2) (T6.1 TUM); • Propagation of EM field-field correlation functions using a Wigner function (WF) for solving flow equations, as well as transfer operator methods (T6.2 UoN). • Deterministic models obtained from TLM calculation coupled with DFM matrices yielding a hybrid DFM-TLM method (T6.3 UoN). • Development of a FDTD field solver for modulated, coded and noisy input fields. Hybrid FDTD Wavelet simulation method for “large” electronic circuits including parts of very small dimensions will be advanced (T6.4 IMST). • Deliverables: • D6.1 Numerical solvers for propagating modulated, coded and stochastic EMF in complex environments.

15. WP No: 7 Start/End Months: 22 -30 Lead Partner: NXP Part.: UoN (4)TUM(9) LPMC(21) ISAE(9) NXP(9) • WP Title: C2C hardware realisations and measurements • Objectives:Innovative packaging solutions to enable breakthrough in wireless C2C communication systems. • Tasks: • Packaging solutions for C2C architectures such as 3D design. (T7.1 NXP&ISAE). • DMM & Receiver designs will be studied. Signal processing algorithms for the identification of stochastic parameters of the multiport model from digital data will be investigated and used for designing optimal DMMs (T7.2 TUM). • The new antenna arrangements with specific shape design functionality proposed under T5.2 will be tested under realistic noise and EMI conditions. (T7.3 LPMC). Modeling of C2C ICs based on Foster and Brune lumped element equivalent circuit modeling for single C2C ICs and multiple C2C ICs (T7.4 NXP&ISAE). • The systems from WP5 will be built & evaluated in noisy environment (T7.5 UoN). • Deliverables: • D7.1: Design proposals for C2C ICs including antenna, DMMs, receivers and packaging.

16. WP No: 8 Start/End Months: 22 -30 Lead Partner: IMST Participants: UoN(25)TUM(18) IMST(18) • WP Title: C2C simulation toolbox based on n-point near-field measurements • Objectives: Developing a C2C simulation toolbox based on measurements and field propagation methods. • Tasks: • FDTD in T6.4 will be developed further for wireless signal transfer on C2C Ics on all scales as well as multiple reflections and EMI. The focus will be on modelling of miniaturised electronic circuits and systems with ultra-small dimensions possibly using the hybrid wavelet approach (T8.1 IMST); • From T6.2, T6.3, a combined WF-DFM-TLM solver with input form the n-point measurements (T4.2) will be set up and tested on data from IMST and NXP; interfaces with CST and IMST software will be created (T8.2 UoN); • The field transfer functions computed applying network methods from T6.1 using CST and IMST software; coupled with WF-DFM methods in the far fields and integrated into CST and IMST. Information and noise signals measured from T4.1. Measurements up to 6 GHz at TUM and above 6 GHz ported to NXP. (T8.3 TUM) • Deliverables: D8.1: Software tool for handling and optimising signal processing in a C2C environment.

17. WP No: 9 Start/End Months: 31-36 Lead: TUM Part.: UoN(18)TUM(18) LPMC (7) ISAE(6) IMST(12) NXP(6) WP Title: C2C design guidelines – formulation and validation Objectives: Validation of C2C software tool and formulation of wireless C2C guidelines Description of work: The combined expertise developed in WP8&9 will be put together; the software packages will be validated against measurement data on C2C devices and design decisions for the antenna and chip architecture will be verified. Guidelines for a future C2C technology will be formulated. Optimisation strategies will be developed for setting up C2C arrangements minimising unwanted interference; the basic features of the guidelines will be put together in a project workshop in months 34 (T9.1 all). Formulation of guidelines (T9.2 TUM). Deliverables: D9.1 Validation data set and numerical data; D9.2 C2C design guidelines

23. Personnel - Overview