ICE spin-off Silexica raises $18m in Series B funding

June 21, 2018

Investment will fund the further development of a Simulation Platform for software developers in multi-partner projects for embedded supercomputers

Cologne, June 21, 2018 – Silexica, the developer of the SLX programming tools has announced the completion of its $18 million Series B round of financing. The EQT Ventures Fund (EQT Ventures) led the round, joining all existing…

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ICE excursion to the University of Kaiserslautern

May 24, 2018

During May 24/25, 2018 the ICE team visited the University of Kaiserslautern and met the local research teams from the Microelectronic Systems Design Research Group  and  the Chair of Electronic Design Automation for the "Advanced Embedded Systems Seminar 2018". Topics of the joint scientific seminar covered a wide range of areas, incl. Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processor…

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Best Paper Award at RAPIDO'18

January 24, 2018

The Paper titled "ESL Black Box Power Estimation: Automatic Calibration for IEEE UPF 3.0 Power Models" by Gereon Onnebrink, Rainer Leupers and Gerd Ascheid has been honored with the best paper award at RAPIDO'18 (10^th Workshop on Rapid Simulation and Performance Evaluation: Methods and Tools) in Manchester.

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Miguel Angel Aguilar wins the ICT Young Researcher Award 2017

November 22, 2017

The profile area "Information and Communication Technology (ICT)" at RWTH Aachen University honored this year Miguel Angel Aguilar with the "ICT Young Researcher Award 2017", for his contributions to the ICT related research. Miguel Angel is a PhD student at the Chair for Software for Systems on Silicon (SSS) under the supervision of Prof. Rainer Leupers. This award includes 3000…

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New European initiative TETRAMAX has officially been kicked-off!

October 5, 2017

With its kick-off meeting on 19 September in Aachen, TETRAMAX (TEchnology TRAnsfer via Multinational Application eXperiments) has now been officially launched! 22 partners from all over Europe gathered here and joined forces to become the leading competence center network for customized and low-energy computing.

More information about the event and the project can be found here:

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ICE spin-off company Silexica is nominated for the German Entrepreneur Award 2017

June 4, 2017

The award ceremony is on June 20, 2017

Silexica, now based in Cologne, has developed a number of software design automation tools to make multicore systems faster than ever before. Now the German Entrepreneur Award's advisory committee acknowledged the high-tech company with a nomination for 2017 in the StartUp category.  The German Entrepreneur Award is Germany's most…

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EC selected TETRAMAX for funding, the successor of TETRACOM

April 12, 2017

We are glad to announce that the EC will grant the H2020 Innovation Action TETRAMAX with 7m Euro for the next four years. Coordinated by ICE, TETRAMAX will build up the #1 European Competence Center in low-power ICT and facilitate technology transfer from research centres to SMEs. In doing so, it will help to digitize European industry and make European businesses more competitive.…

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ICE spin-off company Silexica raises $8 million in Series A funding

November 29, 2016

Silexica Receives Series A Financing Led by Merus Capital

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ICE excursion to the University of Rostock

May 24, 2016

During May 17/18, the ICE team visited the University of Rostock and met the local research teams from the Institute of Applied Microelectronics and the Institute of Communications Engineering. Topics of the joint scientific seminar covered a wide range of areas, incl. Scalable System Synthesis, Parallel SystemC Simulation, Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks, and VLSI Implementation…

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2nd Huawei-RWTH Workshop on Future Wireless Technologies

April 18, 2016

During April 6 and 7, Huawei and ICE co-organized the 2nd issue of a joint workshop series on future wireless technologies. After the 1st workshop in Aachen in 2015, the event took place at Huawei, Shanghai this time.

The major topics included 5G communications, virtual and augmented reality, Industry 4.0, and advanced multicore SoC design.

RWTH Aachen was represented by Prof. R.…

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