Who are we? meet our partner – UPAT

X-TREME 6G is run by a consortium of 17 companies, universities and research centers who decided to join their strengths and assets within one project to define the future of 6G in Europe, at the unique intersection of microlectronics and telecommunications

With a strong academic and research presence, the University of Patras (UPAT) is one of the leading institutions in Greece. UPAT is involved in the project through: the Network Architectures and Management (NAM) Lab, the VLSI Lab and the Applied Electronics Lab.

The Network Architectures and Management (NAM) group has extensive experience and performs innovative research and state of the art contributions in the area of smart networks and services and the wider 5G/6G domain, while it participates in numerous European and current SNS projects. NAM maintains the Patras5G testbed and chairs the ETSI SDG OSL an open source Operating Support System project.

As said by Professor Alexios Birbas, UPAT’s representative within X-TREME 6G –

“The VLSI and Applied Electronics Labs are heavily involved in the development of hardware components to support the evolution of B5G and 6G networks. They also contact research and development of middleware software that enables the integration of these components with the upper layers of the network. The components design cover circuits and modules accommodating wireless network evolution across FR1, FR2, and FR3 frequency bands, including RF and mmWave designs, digital baseband processing with AI/ML integration, and hardware accelerators to support massive MIMO, beamforming, sensing, positioning and interference mitigation functionalities.”

In X-TREME 6G, UPAT will mainly contribute toward the development of proper AI/ML algorithms, the implementation of accelerated instances of them as well as to the development and implementation of a flexible virtualizable RISCV based processing architecture for supporting efficient base band extensions beyond basic functionality and their integration to the demonstrators to be built for the targeted use cases.

X-TREME 6G project has received fundings from the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) under the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement NO 101192681.