Throughout the COREnext project, partners produced a substantial body of scientific work that reflects the breadth of research carried out across communications engineering, semiconductor design, embedded systems, security and computing architectures. In total, 37 scientific papers were published, including conference papers, journal articles, a poster abstract, a book chapter and a white paper. Together, they demonstrate both the depth and continuity of the project’s scientific contributions.
Research on polymer microwave fibre (PMF) and sub-THz communication features prominently across multiple publications. Partners such as CHALM, CEA-Leti, Bordeaux-IMS, IFAG and Radiall reported advances in high-data-rate links at D-band, H-band and Y-band, exploring new modulation schemes, efficient coupler designs, waveguide characterisation and transmitter architectures. These studies include demonstrations of gigabit-class performance over polymer waveguides, compact antenna-in-package concepts and ray-tracing-based channel models for industrial and data-centre environments. The findings have been presented at major venues including the International Microwave Symposium, EuMW, ECTC and IEEE JC&S, further reinforcing COREnext’s role in shaping future short-range communication systems.
In parallel, the project contributed significantly to many-core computing, software-defined radio architectures and RISC-V based systems. ETHZ, BI, TUD and IHP authored papers on scalable clusters, vector processing, memory architectures, data movement for accelerator-rich systems and techniques for reducing contention in shared-memory designs. These outputs cover topics such as the TeraPool cluster, scalable memory mechanisms, many-core baseband processors and dynamic allocation schemes. Publications appeared in DATE, VLSI-SoC, GLSVLSI, ASPLOS, HotOS and EuroSys, underlining the relevance of COREnext research in the computing-systems domain.
Trustworthiness and secure system design formed another important thread. Researchers from BI and other partners examined modular trusted execution environments, software-defined CPU modes, remote attestation integration and trustworthy communication mechanisms for mobile systems. These studies, published through workshops such as SysTEX and high-level conferences including USENIX ATC, add a valuable dimension to the project’s efforts to integrate security and reliability into next-generation communication and computing infrastructures.
A dedicated white paper, Trustworthiness – The Key to Europe’s Digital Future, expands on these themes by examining digitalisation through the lens of trust and security. It outlines how these considerations will influence Europe’s position in high-end consumer goods and notes that the value of products is shifting towards embedded connectivity and sensing capabilities that link devices into wider digital ecosystems. The paper stresses that Europe’s continued leadership will depend on delivering technologies that are reliable, secure and aligned with societal expectations.
Further contributions include analytical work on Open RAN adoption, mmWave multiuser MIMO beamforming, LDPC accelerators and adaptive RISC-V systems for non-terrestrial sub-THz communication, demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of the consortium.
Together, these 37 publications present a cohesive scientific narrative, advancing the state of the art in high-frequency communication links, enabling scalable computing architectures for next-generation radio systems and embedding trustworthiness at the heart of future network technologies. The collective contributions of COREnext partners reinforce Europe’s research position and support innovation pathways relevant to emerging 6G, semiconductor and computing developments.