Development of embedded systems
We develop embedded systems for you as complete solutions consisting of sensors and actuators, signal processing and communications technology as well as open-loop and closed-loop controls. To build these solutions, we use our know-how in the fields of internal interfaces, energy-efficient design, operating system support and application development. We offer you complete solutions from the idea to the implementation, which we also offer as partial services.
Service offering
- Feasibility studies and system design
- Development of embedded hardware and software platforms
- Hardware-related software including driver development
- Development of embedded AI systems for sensor data processing
- Solutions in the field of wireless sensor networks
- Commissioning and characterisation
- Real-time optimisation of systems and communications
- System optimisation in terms of energy, size and performance
- Production transfer and implementation of small series
Our portfolio includes:
- Design with focus on modularity, expandability and scalability
- ASIC/SoC design incl. sensor interface development
- Selection and configuration of suitable embedded operating systems
- Integration into existing IT systems
- Application architecture and development
- model-based FPGA development with MATLAB/Simulink® for Xilinx
- development of vendor-independent IP cores on RT level with VHDL
- inferfacing to microcontrollers/processors and hardware/software partitioning
- high-performance sensor interfaces
- implementation of communications interfaces
- development of algorithms for digital signal processing
- integration into overall systems
- Development of machine learning (ML) algorithms
- Resource-efficient implementation of the ML processing chain in terms of execution time, memory and energy consumption
- Benchmarking of algorithms and systems
- Porting of operating systems (board support packages for Linux and Android)
- Interface and driver development
- Real-time optimisation of operating systems
- Implementation of complex embedded devices using exclusively/primarily open source software
Application fields and technical equipment
- Industry 4.0 and automation technology
- Intelligent measurement and diagnostic solutions
- Communications Gateways
- Life sciences
- HW/SW platforms for IVD applications
- Mobile diagnostic systems
- Environmental monitoring and smart city applications
- Sensor networks
- Intelligent measurement systems
- Edge AI
- Analysis
- DC Power Analyzer for analysing and simulating load profiles and for measuring the current consumption of ULP devices (also long-term measurement)
- EMC
- EMC measuring station EMxpert - EMC diagnostic tool for fast, spatially resolved diagnosis and solution of EMC problems
- EMC near-field probe set
- Development system interference immunity E1 from Langer EMC technology with magnetic field probing probe and galvanically isolated (FO) probes for analogue and digital signals
- Real-time capability and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN)
- Latency Measurement Box - With the OSADL Latency Measurement Box the requirements regarding the real-time capability of the developed Linux systems are proven especially for industrial use.
- TSN Lab Infrastructure for testing own TSN endpoints and infrastructure
- Measuring systems for multi-channel data acquisition
- Measuring box for recording ultrasonic / vibration sensors and corresponding slow channels (also for endurance tests / data record creation)
- Measuring system for carrying out multi-channel test measurements
Contact
Contact
Dr.-Ing. Tino Hutschenreuther
Head of System Design
tino.hutschenreuther(at)imms.de+49 (0) 3677 874 93 40
Dr. Tino Hutschenreuther will answer your questions on our research in Smart distributed measurement and test systems and the related core topics Analysis of distributed IoT systems, Embedded AI and Real-time data processing and communications, on the lead applications Adaptive edge AI systems for industrial application and IoT systems for cooperative environmental monitoring as well as on the range of services for the development of embedded systems.
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Andy Carius, Indu-Sol
„The joint work was characterised by many ideas and a great deal of commitment by IMMS. We will gladly turn to IMMS again in future projects, especially in the area of data evaluation and classification, as we very much appreciate this type of cooperation.“
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Peter Otto, Postberg
“We are very satisfied with the result – the many years of IMMS experience in the design of embedded systems, with industrial projects and also the system understanding of IMMS from the previous product developments with SONOTEC have clearly contributed to the success.”
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Friedrich Becker, TURCK Electronics GmbH
“With its experience in the spheres of signal processing and integrating communications and systems for industry, IMMS contributed significantly to the execution of the science which the partners in Chemnitz and Offenburg derived from theoretical principles in cable diagnostics and communications interfaces.”
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Dr. Uwe Stöpel, Funkwerk
“The result of the collaboration is a prototype which serves to log and monitor freight train functions along the whole length and to transmit the data in real time. And not only from that: also in the general cooperation, IMMS has accelerated the progress of the project by thinking along with our requirements and being open-minded in finding solutions that matched the need and the environment.”
Sortenversuche vor dem Hintergrund des Klimawandels: Wie kann der Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen Akteuren verbessert werden?
Silvia Krug1.2. Mitteldeutscher Digitaltag, 21. Januar 2025, Leipzig
1IMMS Institut für Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme gemeinnützige GmbH, Ehrenbergstraße 27, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany.Was braucht es, um die Sorteneignung vor dem Hintergrund klimatischer Änderungen zu beurteilen?
Silvia Krug1.Thüringer Obstbautag, 16. Januar 2025, Erfurt
1IMMS Institut für Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme gemeinnützige GmbH, Ehrenbergstraße 27, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany.Energieautarkes System behält Feinstaub permanent im Blick
Falk Eisenreich1. Marco Götze1. Silvia Krug1. Tino Hutschenreuther1. Kathrin Veigel2.in elektroniknet.de, 22. August 2024, www.elektroniknet.de/smarter-world/energieautarkes-system-behaelt-feinstaub-permanent-im-blick.219767.html
1IMMS Institut für Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme gemeinnützige GmbH, Ehrenbergstraße 27, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany. 2elektroniknet.de, Redaktion.Effect of spent mushroom compost mulch and irrigation treatment on growth, yield and fruit quality of sweet cherry in a summer-dry climate
Martin Penzel1. Claudia Kuhaupt2. Maria Bamberg3. Silvia Krug4,5.European Horticulture Congress EHC, Symposia „Fruit Production Systems for Sustainable and Resilient Development“, Bucharest, Romania, May 12-16, 2024
1Lehr- und Versuchszentrum Gartenbau Erfurt, Germany. 2Thüringer Landesamt für Landwirtschaft und Ländlichen Raum, Erfurt, Germany. 3Thüringer Landesamt für Bodenmanagement und Geoinformation, Erfurt, Germany. 4IMMS Institut für Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme gemeinnützige GmbH, Ehrenbergstraße 27, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany. 5Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Mid Sweden University, Holmgatan 10, 851 70 Sundsvall, Sweden.
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Embedded AI
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Research field
Smart distributed measurement and test systems
Integrated sensor ICs are the heart of sensor and measurement systems like wireless sensors, stationary or handheld devices. We are researching solutions for ever more powerful sensors with more intrinsic intelligence and task allocation in the network.