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You don’t need to be a DIY expert to install the Gboost electric bike conversion kit! Developed by local startup E-Bike Lite, the ultra-lightweight (950-gram) kit can be installed on any bike with just a single screw. The innovation is an invention of Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma faculty member and GIPSA-Lab scientist Dominique Houzet and E-Bike Lite CEO Guenther Hirn. What makes Gboost so innovative is its patented motor and its controller. The brushless asynchronous permanent-magnet motor (PMM) uses a… More information

A team of researchers from Grenoble (IRIG, Leti, and CNRS) made headlines in 2016 with the world’s first FDSOI qubit device—based on holes rather than electrons—made on a 300 mm CMOS fab line. Now they can read the state of the qubit, too. The researchers used a screen-grid reflectometry method, applying microwave signals to the grid to modify the qubit’s state. The read technique is still lacking in precision. However, it will be useful for the rapid characterization (coherence time,… More information

On October 10, 2019, five engineers and a PhD employed at Grenoble-area companies (Schneider Electric, Dolphin Integration, and Euromaster) will begin a new continuing education program on the Internet of Things. The ten-month, 150-hour Grenoble Institute of Technology program, taught by Phelma and Ensimag faculty, combines classroom and hands-on learning. Participants will earn a certificate in embedded systems and connected devices after completing five modules: radio and network communications; operating systems and processor architectures; algorithms and software engineering; data management;… More information

Leti, which kicked off a major R&D program on embedded artificial intelligence this year, is also part of Grenoble’s new Multidisciplinary Institute in Artificial Intelligence (MIAI), which will receive €100 million in government and private-sector funding over four years to finance R&D partnerships with around 50 businesses and 28 research chairs. One of the main objectives of the new institute is to get different labs in Grenoble’s sci-tech ecosystem working together. Leti has been tasked with coordinating four of the… More information