ECS SRIA annual edition
Each year, an Electronic Components and Systems (ECS) Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (ECS-SRIA) is developed by more than 300 experts of the ECS community, coordinated by the three industry associations: AENEAS, EPoSS and Inside. It is an open, living and funding-programme agnostic document, reporting the industry objectives, the societal benefits and the strategic advantages for Europe, for the next 10-15 years.
Objectives
The ECS SRIA describes the major challenges, and the necessary R&D&I efforts to tackle them, in micro-and nanoelectronics for smart systems integration all the way up to embedded and cyber physical systems, and System of Systems. This SRIA is intended to be funding programme agnostic and can be used as a basis for the various cooperative programmes across Europe.
ECS SRIA 2025
This is the final version of the eighth edition of the ECS Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (ECS SRIA) released in early December 2024 and presented during the EFECS 2024 event.
While already present in earlier editions, quantum technologies are getting additional attention in this new edition. The same holds for the irruption and disruption of AI tools in the practices of the ECS community and the digital society at large. The importance of the RISC-V and Open-Source Hardware trend is further reiterated. The new agenda insists on the potential of silicon photonics to implement the critical bandwidth and communications-intensive connections required by the development of global internet traffic and distributed AI. The emergence of chiplets as a potential game-changer of our industry is discussed in the introduction, while several chapters go into the related technology requirements. Last but not least, sustainability is present across the whole document, with many research topics focusing on improving the energy performance of the ECS industry and reducing its environmental footprint.
This ECS SRIA 2025 links critical research focus areas to the Design Platform and Pilot Lines to be implemented by the Chips Joint Undertaking.
The ECS SRIA 2025 is available here.
