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Our Mission

Embedded systems are our passion. Be it in satellites, medical equipment, or cars, functions that were previously controlled mechanically or electrically are increasingly being shifted to software in embedded systems. Researchers at Fraunhofer FIRST combine long-standing know-how of hardware architectures and software methods with extensive skills in quality assurance in order to advance safety, efficiency, and usability of embedded systems. To achieve these goals, they develop innovative methods and technologies and advise companies during the entire development chain: from modeling to architecture and quality control to the completed product.

Departments

Fraunhofer FIRST was founded in 1983 as an institute of the Society for Mathematics and Data Processing (GMD) and has been part of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft since July 2001. Today, some 140 employees work in the three departments Modeling, Systems Architecture and Quality Assurance and in the administrative department.