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RheaVita invents, develops and sells the technology for continuously freeze drying pharmaceutical products in vials and pre-filled syringes. This innovation is driven by a scientific approach. Therefore strong ties exist between RheaVita and Ghent University and PhD projects are jointly executed. In order to introduce our technology in the pharmaceutical field, our scientific progress is regularly presented in conferences and workshops through organizations such as ISL-FD, PDA and CPPR. The research activities result in numerous publications. Additionally, we execute head-to-head comparison feasibility studies to challenge our technology compared to currently established methods. We have created two prototypes, which are operational and used for the feasibility tests as mentioned above.

Sigasi radically redefines digital design. Our design entry tool Sigasi Studio makes the work of digital chip designers more efficient and fun. Sigasi Studio has now become the essential next-generation Intelligent Development Environment (IDE) for hardware designers. Sigasi Studio drastically improves designer productivity by helping to write, inspect and modify digital circuit designs in the most intuitive way. Our tool understands the design context. Advanced features such as intelligent autocompletes and code refactoring, make VHDL, Verilog and SystemVerilog design easier, more efficient. Sigasi, launched in 2008 and headquartered in Belgium, is backed by angel investors and has formed partnerships with FPGA and EDA companies including Altera, Xilinx and Aldec. The Sigasi Studio software is used worldwide by industry leaders in the fields of healthcare, consumer electronics, industrial automation, telecom, aerospace and defense.

RheaVita invents, develops and sells the technology for continuously freeze drying pharmaceutical products in vials and pre-filled syringes. This innovation is driven by a scientific approach. Therefore strong ties exist between RheaVita and Ghent University and PhD projects are jointly executed. In order to introduce our technology in the pharmaceutical field, our scientific progress is regularly presented in conferences and workshops through organizations such as ISL-FD, PDA and CPPR. The research activities result in numerous publications. Additionally, we execute head-to-head comparison feasibility studies to challenge our technology compared to currently established methods. We have created two prototypes, which are operational and used for the feasibility tests as mentioned above.

Sigasi radically redefines digital design. Our design entry tool Sigasi Studio makes the work of digital chip designers more efficient and fun. Sigasi Studio has now become the essential next-generation Intelligent Development Environment (IDE) for hardware designers. Sigasi Studio drastically improves designer productivity by helping to write, inspect and modify digital circuit designs in the most intuitive way. Our tool understands the design context. Advanced features such as intelligent autocompletes and code refactoring, make VHDL, Verilog and SystemVerilog design easier, more efficient. Sigasi, launched in 2008 and headquartered in Belgium, is backed by angel investors and has formed partnerships with FPGA and EDA companies including Altera, Xilinx and Aldec. The Sigasi Studio software is used worldwide by industry leaders in the fields of healthcare, consumer electronics, industrial automation, telecom, aerospace and defense.

Ghent University is a top 100 university and one of the major universities in Belgium, founded in 1817. Our 11 faculties offer a wide range of courses and conduct in-depth research within a wide range of scientific domains. We are a pluralistic university that is open to all students, regardless of their ideological, political, cultural or social background. Our credo is ‘Dare to think’.

Essensium is a Belgian leading high-tech company founded in 2005 as a spin-off of the IMEC research center in Leuven. Our EPS division has a proven track record of innovative solutions for forklift collision avoidance, providing safety and analytics to some of the globe’s largest organizations in their complex industrial and logistics operations. Our Mind division consists out of a group of expert consultants with a focus on low level embedded (linux/baremetal) and open source development besides low level networking (protocol stacks, uart, wifi,...), security (authentication and audits) and multimedia (audio-video encoding/decoding).