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PRIMES
has been identified as a plat-
form of the competitiveness center
Aerospace Valley in order to enhance
the strengths of the area specializing in
the industry of embedded systems.
Industrial members are gathered in an «
association Loi 1901 », linked by a perma-
nent contract to academic laboratories.
PRIMES offers means to industrial com-
panies: ALSTOM Transport, EADS IW,
SAFRAN, Schneider Electric, and SMEs:
SCT, CIRTEM, Boostec, Aquitaine Elec-
tronic, CISSOID, TM4, CALYOS, aPSI3D,
and French academic laboratories: LGP,
LAPLACE, LAAS, Latep and CIRIMAT.
The main objectives of PRIMES are these
two fundamental topics:
•
Technology of
integration
of power
converters (Design and manufacturing
of demonstrator; Validation of basic
technologies; Integration numeric-pow-
er);
•
Architecture
, system and technology
management for electrical energy stor-
age in fixed or onboard systems.
PRIMES is succeeding to the
PEARL
Lab-
oratory and take the benefit of its 10 last
years of experience in applied research as
well as in the use of very highly equipped
platform.
One of the major challenges for Primes
is to enable the maturity of new indus-
trial channel aiming at the manufactur-
ing of new wide gap components that
could be sold to the transport Indus-
tries (aeronautics, railway, automotive)
as well as to the industrials dealing with
the management of energy, with facili-
ties to design, develop and test integrat-
ed power converters and test power sys-
tems like traction drives or any inboard
systems.
In particular, PRIMES puts a huge effort
in developing virtual
prototyping
solu-
tions for power electronic systems, com-
bined to a prototyping and characteri-
zation platform to be able to
design,
simulate, manufacture
and
charac-
terize
new power module technologies.
In a technological point of view, PRIMES
has developed several integration tech-
nologies, for insulating or conductive
materials to electrical system topologies.
PRIMES has experience and is certified
for the industrial development of power
switches for avionic/aerospace applica-
tions and be confident with innovative
interconnect, packaging and cooling so-
lutions. PRIMES includes a power switch
manufacturer of proven experience in the
avionic domain (linked to AeroSpace Val-
ley competitively Pole), and is equipped
and resourced to provide the type and
number of innovative power modules
required for any program.
PRIMES is a key platform for power
integration innovations in Europe.
PRIMES
