The outcome should contribute to:
- reduce dependencies on non-European suppliers by boosting the EDTIB and promoting the development of a European solution;
- future establishment of a European RF-CMOS fine pitch supply chain for defence;
- secure the autonomy and non-dependent availability of critical analogue and digital functional building blocks in the next generations of digital wideband AESA RF systems;
- gained knowledge regarding design and manufacturing of RF-CMOS as required for defence applications;
- shared awareness on the need for RF-CMOS at European level as a basis for increased production volume for fine pitch chips in line with defence needs.
European competitiveness is increasingly dependent on the development of electronics. In recent years, the opportunities offered by Systems-On-a-Chip have become very apparent in many different technology sectors such as telecommunications, military, automotive, financial, medical research, and others.
Fundamental to this development is the integration of processing hardware, embedded programming software and firmware and high-speed digital-to-analogue and analogue-to-digital technology with low power consumption technology into a single component.
There is a need to invest in a European RF-CMOS supply chain and measures to mitigate the risk of export limitations connected to military applications. Building on the learnings from the GaN-supply chain cooperation, and based on the growing demand for integrated
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