Within the “Chips-JU” Joint Undertaking project of the Horizon Europe programme, titled “Mosaic of Advanced Electronics Components and Systems for Our Automated Digital Future in Industry and Mobility” (MOSAIC), the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science (EDI), together with other partners, is addressing one of the key challenges for Europe’s competitiveness – technological independence and ensuring manufacturing capacity within the ecosystem of automated systems. The project brings together 46 partners from 15 countries, covering the entire value chain of electronic components and systems and providing a comprehensive approach to strengthening Europe’s manufacturing capacity and securing its digital sovereignty.
The objective of the MOSAIC project is to advance Europe towards excellence and digital autonomy, directly aligning with the European Union’s Chips Act. To achieve this, the project will develop next-generation electronic components and systems with enhanced cognitive intelligence, ensuring energy efficiency and robustness. The resulting solutions will be tailored to the requirements of automated systems, enabling rapid data processing and intuitive, AI-driven decision-making.
MOSAIC addresses a range of challenges related to the integration of diverse sensing hardware configurations, ensuring that automated systems can accurately and reliably perceive their surroundings in a non-invasive manner. The project aims to reduce system complexity, eliminate errors, and improve perception accuracy. Furthermore, it highlights the importance of standardized communication protocols and interoperability, fostering ecosystem collaboration across sectors including automotive, aerospace, maritime, industrial automation, and infrastructure. The development of such advanced solutions provides European manufacturers of electronic components and systems with a significant competitive advantage.
"MOSAIC marks an important step in strengthening Europe’s technological sovereignty in the field of electronic components and systems. Through close cooperation across industries and countries, our goal is to develop intelligent, energy-efficient, and resilient solutions that will form the foundation of next-generation automated systems. EDI is proud to collaborate with industry leaders such as Infineon, NXP, AVL, TTTech, and many others, contributing its expertise in quantum sensors, radar technologies, embedded systems, and artificial intelligence to help build a secure and competitive European digital future,” says Kaspars Ozols, Deputy Director for Development and Leading Researcher at EDI.
Within the project, EDI will develop a cooperative radar perception system and quantum sensor technologies, optimize antennas and microwave circuits, and create approaches for reducing energy consumption.
"MOSAIC represents a significant step forward in the development of quantum sensor technology. The project provides an opportunity to further reduce the cost of highly precise magnetometers while improving the overall technology readiness level and even performance. These factors support the introduction of new sensor technologies into emerging markets. Specifically within MOSAIC, we will investigate non-invasive multiphase current measurements,” explains Rihards Novickis, Head of the Integrated Circuits and Systems Laboratory.
EDI researcher Edgars Lielāmurs adds that within the MOSAIC project, EDI focuses on advancing state-of-the-art automotive millimeter-wave radar technologies. The latest millimeter-wave radar chips manufactured in Europe are reaching the maturity required to ensure SAE Level 2+ driving safety and automated driving functions. “Therefore, close cooperation between research institutions and vehicle manufacturers is essential to develop signal processing and environmental perception algorithms tailored to 4D radar data. Moreover, in the field of cooperative perception and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, there are still very few integrated solutions that combine millimeter-wave radars deployed both in vehicles and in infrastructure. In collaboration with our research and industry partners, EDI is developing advanced computing technologies for safer next-generation radar-equipped vehicles and roadside radar systems,” notes E. Lielāmurs.
The project is implemented in cooperation with several other Horizon Europe “Chips-JU” projects, including A-IQ Ready, Archimedes, Cynergy4MIE, EcoMobility, ShapeFuture, and others.
