Mar 15, 2021
Researchers at TU Dresden have won 1st prize in the "Energy-efficient AI system" pilot innovation competition
Logo of the TUD contribution to the "ZEN" AI competition
Researchers at TU Dresden have won 1st prize in the "Energy-efficient AI system" pilot innovation competition organized by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The group led by Prof. Christian Mayr from the Chair for Highly Parallel VLSI Systems and Neuromicroelectronics prevailed in the "22nm ASIC" category, which uses the chip technology from GlobalFoundries in Dresden. The competition is endowed with a prize of 1 million euros for an exclusive research project.
The aim of the competition was to design a chip that can detect abnormal behavior in EKG signals with as little energy as possible. To do this, the researchers used neural networks with properties that our brain also makes use of. The work is closely networked with the CeTI Cluster of Excellence, where such neural networks are used for gesture recognition.
