Lennart Reimann and Niko Zurstraßen © ICE
Every year, RWTH Aachen University honours university projects that make a special contribution to the attractiveness of the Aachen region as a location for innovation. The NileTech project was one of the winners of the Innovation Award.
Lennart Reimann and Niko Zurstraßen of the NileTech team at the Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems (ICE) predict that the ideal microprocessor of the future will be a RISC-V processor. RISC-V is an open and royalty-free processor standard that, according to Reimann, has the potential to disrupt conventional market structures. It allows small companies and research institutes to develop their own customised processors. In order to adopt the standard, a company can use NileTech’s solution, the RISC-V Instruction Set Explorer (RISE), to significantly shorten the time-consuming process of familiarising itself with the world of RISC-V.
“RISE is more than a tool, it is part of a revolution,”
says Reimann.
The RWTH Innovation GmbH supports the organisation of the award. The projects are judged on technology orientation, innovation potential, customer benefit, planned further development, commercial potential and overall impression. For the first time, the winning teams received a new trophy made in the Collective Incubator’s Maker Space.
Watch this video to learn more about the RWTH Innovation Award.
Click here to go to the Institute For Communication Technologies And Embedded Systems.
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