Fujitsu Laboratories Global Activities
Hitoshi Matsumoto Takeshi Yamamura Fumihiro Maruyama (Manuscript received May 28, 2009)
Fujitsu Laboratories has established three laboratories in the USA, China, and Europe and has been building a global R&D system. Each overseas laboratory is developing technologies utilizing the region’s characteristics and working with local universities and research institutes. The activities that have taken root in the region were promoted in order to start up R&D functions at the initial establishment. Since 2005, R&D management has been shifted to focus on outputs more strongly in harmony with all laboratories worldwide and on open innovation. Overseas laboratories have established deep relationships with the local communities and benefit from the outstanding environments and talents in those regions. They are carrying out R&D and business incubations and producing remarkable outputs.
1. Introduction Laboratories R&D. Fujitsu Laboratories has established three overseas research facilities to build a global 2. Fujitsu Laboratories of system for promoting research and development: America (FLA) Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Fujitsu Fujitsu Laboratories of America (FLA)1) Research and Development Center (China), and was established in California’s Silicon Valley in Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe. These facilities 1993 as the advance team for global development conduct research in close cooperation with local by Fujitsu Laboratories. Later, new research universities and research organizations, including facilities were set up in College Park, Maryland work on technology related to the characteristics and in Richardson, Texas, and they all proceeded of each local region. with development activities. The primary In the beginning, research activities mission of FLA involves the following goals. intended to bring out originality were conducted • Take advantage of excellent local talent to with the objective of raising the research develop differentiating technology. capability of each laboratory. Since 2005, the • Cooperate with excellent North American research management has been strengthened to research organizations to rapidly develop create a stronger awareness of the output from outstanding technology through open global cooperation, and the laboratories have innovation. taken on the challenge of R&D by setting their • Cooperate with the Fujitsu office in own research strategies and topics. By taking North America to contribute to business advantage of the excellent local environments development. and talent, they have come to play an important • Participate in standardization activities to role in supporting the leading edge of Fujitsu increase Fujitsu’s influence in the process.
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• Construct a new model for converting types of developed technology are maintained research into business results through even now at a world top level and they are being cooperation with venture enterprises and used in Internet search technology and Web investors. application testing technology as well as in LSI To fulfill this mission, FLA applies the design technology. “Networked and Open Laboratory” concept, and Of the many projects conducted in each of the Fujitsu and Fujitsu Laboratories collaboration with North American research facilities is undertaking new R&D through organizations, the Bounded Model Checking cooperation with North American research technology developed together with Professor organizations and enterprises. The laboratories Clarke of Carnegie Mellon University is currently are creating leading-edge technology in being used as an important technology in LSI server interconnection, Internet services, verification and software verification. Professor Internet protocol (IP) networks, LSI design Clarke received the Turing Award in 2007, at technology, and other such fields. They are also which time he recognized FLA with the words, “I studying technology trends in North America, would like to thank FLA for their contributions. standardization activities, and the process The many results of our joint research have been of converting research results into business highly fruitful in terms of both advancement of development. technology and application in business.”
2.1 In the beginning: Research on LSI 2.2 FLA 2.0: Networked and Open design technology Laboratory When FLA was first established, LSI In 2006, the overall structure of FLA was design technology was set as a research topic, reformed on the basis of the concept of the being an important aspect of the manufacture “Networked and Open Laboratory” as “FLA of Fujitsu products. In addition to a staff of ten 2.0”. The laboratories took up the challenge persons who mostly had doctorates, there were of moving forward with leading-edge R&D in three advisors who were well known experts the North American R&D network, actively in this field: Professor Bryant of Carnegie adopting outside technology, and presenting Mellon University and Professors Brayton and the results openly outside Fujitsu. Along with Sangiovanni-Vincentelli of the University of this reformation, the research subjects that had California, Berkley. steadily expanded were reconsidered and five Over the following ten years, research results research areas were identified. Three groups accumulated and FLA attained a world-class and one center aim to achieve innovation in level of research in logical function processing the fields of servers, networks, and services, technology, circuit logical equivalence testing which are important business fields for Fujitsu technology, and model validation technology, at present and in the future. Another group etc., greatly contributing to improvements in aims to identify new trends in North America Fujitsu LSI design technology. In particular, and develop new processes for linking research the equivalence testing technology produced the results to businesses. Activities in these areas ASSURE tool, which was provided to Fujitsu are introduced below. and its customers and has long been used as an essential tool in LSI development. FLA also 2.2.1 Platform technology received licensing income from the top vendors The Component and Device Innovation in the field of design technology.2) The various Group develops differentiating technology for the
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servers that Fujitsu develops, including world- an industrial standardization organization, class research results in analog circuit design also increase the presence of Fujitsu in the technology, high-speed input/output technology, standardization process. and board mounting technology. Working together with Fujitsu Laboratories, it developed 2.2.3 Internet services a multichannel high-speed transceiver circuit3) The Connected Information Innovation for implementing a high-speed blade server and Center uses advanced technology for natural a complementary metal oxide semiconductor language processing and signal processing transmitter IC4) for a 40-Gb/s optical transmission to develop technology for analyzing and system that were announced in February 2009. understanding interrelationships among the Future work will focus on developing various types of data that exist on the Internet technology for servers that are more energy and creating a variety of Internet services. It has efficient and for reducing power consumption by applied new algorithms for large-scale natural equipment interconnections, which accounts for language processing and developed technology for a considerable part of the energy consumed in automatically generating domain-independent data centers. The research also includes next- ontologies. That technology serves as a base generation interconnection technology, of which for the development of various new Internet optical interconnection is representative. services, such as the Xurch Cloud search support environment that was announced in June 2009.7) 2.2.2 Trusted systems The Trusted Systems Innovation Group 2.2.4 Network systems research is developing technology for constructing City and regional networks are expanding information technology (IT) systems that are dramatically through integrated Internet secure and reliable for the user. Reliability connection, IP telephony, video services, and requires technology for both guaranteeing the interactive services such as Ethernet services, security, integrity, and reliability of the overall IT games, and videoconferencing. To provide system and all of its components and for ensuring the bandwidth required by these services, early detection of external attacks or other such service providers are rapidly developing problems and providing countermeasures against reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers for them. optical communication networks. The Network The Web application verification and Systems Innovation Group possesses front- testing technology based on the model checking running technology in optical communication technology developed into tools by FLA has systems, particularly optical modules, optical proven effective through applications under nodes, optical communication systems, next- development by Fujitsu.5) Progress has also generation communication systems, and been made in technology for preserving data network management systems. It works closely removed from the system and in the development with Fujitsu Network Communications and is of end-point security. A secure universal serial playing a major role in promoting the company’s bus (USB) memory device that implements an business. automatic data deletion function was developed in April 2009, allowing secure management of 2.2.5 Marketing and business innovation confidential information and preventing data The Marketing and Business Innovation leaks, even if data is lost or stolen.6) The vigorous Group surveys and researches the technology activities of the Trusted Computing Group, markets and technical trends in fields where
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North America leads, such as mobile services, leading-edge R&D in Beijing and Shanghai. The IT support for healthcare, and social media. number of researchers has increased in line with It provides information that is indispensable China’s expanding economy (Figure 1). for Fujitsu’s technology development strategy The current research topics cover a wide and supports business expansion based on range that extends from communications the advanced technology developed by Fujitsu (wireless and optical communications) to Laboratories through open innovation, with information processing (Web information particular consideration given to spin-offs and processing, natural language processing, and licensing. It also holds annual exhibitions that media recognition) and microdevices (image and introduce technology to venture capital firms, audio compression and encoding). The initial start-up companies, universities, consultants, priority for promoting R&D in China was cost and research organizations. Introducing and performance, but this has since diversified for discussing laboratory technology creates a base three reasons. First, China has steadily been for expanding the power of open innovation. transforming from a place for manufacturing facilities to a place for R&D facilities, and 3. Fujitsu Research and science parks and other R&D infrastructure are Development Center (FRDC) rapidly being established. The second point is Since the Fujitsu R&D Center (FRDC)8) was the excellent talent that is available. China has established in Beijing in 1998, the fundamental about ten times the population of Japan, and the capability of the facility has grown through joint students who succeed in the severely competitive R&D with Fujitsu Laboratories. That capability environment are both highly capable and highly will serve as a base for promoting independent interested in IT. The third point is the immense R&D that can develop a global market for size of the Chinese market. R&D on products China in the future. The research topics are suitable for the Chinese market requires local communication and information processing, research laboratories staffed mainly by local microdevices, and fields of study that combine researchers and business discussions with them. This section describes the present and customers in collaboration with local business future work of FRDC in the context of the present entities. China has adopted many independent and future of China. industrial standards, and early participation in the establishment of industrial standards is 3.1 Significance of China necessary. An overview of the Chinese market is From the initial 11 researchers, the staff given below. has grown to 80 researchers who are engaged in 3.2 Chinese IT market
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expanded dramatically since 2000, and there worldwide average. That growth is expected to are currently 650 million users (of GSM [global serve as a driving force for the future worldwide system for mobile communications] and CDMA semiconductor market. [code division multiple access]). Even though worldwide demand is shrinking, the expansion 3.3 Chinese industrial standards trend in China will continue and is expected to The Chinese government is moving forward reach 820 million users by 2010 (GSM and 3G with active globalization of domestic industrial [third generation]). In January 2009, 3G cell standards to stimulate the country’s industry, phone licenses were finally granted to the three particularly in the fields of telecommunications major carriers: China Mobile (for TD-SCDMA and multimedia. Dealing with Chinese industrial [time division synchronous CDMA]), China standards is essential to success in Chinese Unicom (for W-CDMA [wideband CDMA]), and business. Some key industrial standards issued China Telecom (for CDMA2000). Partial services in China are outlined below. began in June 2009. 3.3.1 Cell phones 3.2.2 Internet market China has developed the TD-SCDMA In June 2008, China’s Internet population scheme as its national strategy for 3G became the largest in the world. In 2009, the standardization. This is a member of the 3G number of users reached 300 million, of which family formally standardized by the International 70% were less than 30 years old. Usage data Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 2000. The reveals that online gaming over the Web has application of time division duplexing (TDD) in developed into a major business. The search the development of standards to follow 3G, e.g., company BAIDU, the consumer-to-consumer Long Term Evolution (LTE) and IMT-Advanced, electronics business TAOBAO, and other such is also being promoted at the national level, companies have begun to develop worldwide and there are activities to merge the frequency business as well as domestic business. BAIDU in division duplexing (FDD) scheme and the TDD particular entered the Japanese market in 2007 scheme. with a Japanese search service that is steadily maturing. 3.3.2 Digital broadcasting Concerning modulation-demodulation 3.2.3 Semiconductor market schemes for terrestrial digital TV broadcasting, The semiconductor market in China has the schemes devised by Tsinghua University and achieved rapid growth over the past several Shanghai Jiao Tong University were merged in years, but sales are expected to decline by August 2006 and enacted as National Standard about 5.8% in 2009 relative to the previous (GB20600-2006). The Chinese industrial year. There is, however, promise for growth to standard China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting turn positive again in 2010, followed by broad GY/T220 standard promoted by the State growth over the long term. Other factors such Administration of Radio, Film and Television is as the transition of cell phones to 3G, the shift of currently in effect for TV broadcasting for mobile TV from analog to digital in 2015, and the great devices; it corresponds to the one-seg service in increase in the Internet population and numbers Japan. of private automobiles all make the predicted growth in China’s domestic market for electronic 3.3.3 Image compression technology information products much higher than the The GB/T20090.2-2006 audio and video
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coding standard (AVS), which has performance processing technology serving as a basis for on par with H.264, is in effect as a national building an R&D group to cultivate the market recommended standard and has been adopted for in China. terrestrial digital TV broadcasting in Shanghai and Hangzhou among other places and for the 3.4.2 Information processing Internet protocol television (IPTV) services of R&D oriented to developing business both in China Unicom. Although independent industrial China and globally is being conducted, focusing standards are used to protect China’s domestic on Chinese language and media processing market, it is highly likely that Chinese industrial technology. Examples of research results that standards will become global standards in the contribute to business development include future. FRDC will also continue to contribute the Chinese language analysis technology and to the establishment of these Chinese industrial character recognition technology, which have standards. generated business in China. The Chinese language analysis technology10) 3.4 FRDC: R&D overview can perform real-time analysis of ten million Considering China’s market and weblogs and other Web pages and discover industrial standards, as described above, the powerful influences. This technology promises telecommunications, information processing, and to serve in monitoring for slander concerning microdevice laboratories of FRDC are currently labor conditions for local companies in China and conducting R&D on the following three topics. environmental problems as well as monitoring for defamation of Japanese company managers 3.4.1 Telecommunications and brand infringements. In June 2008, Fujitsu R&D of physical layer signal processing implemented China’s first content service. technology is proceeding for the two fields of Concerning character recognition wireless communications and communications technology11) on the other hand, form recognition for next-generation communication systems.9) technology was developed to handle Chinese In both these fields, the focus is on the forms that have features specific to Chinese and digital signal processor for received signals contain noise such as stamps or poor-quality shown in Figure 2. In the future, we plan to printed characters. In October 2006, negotiations expand into communication fields other than were held with the Chinese government on a telecommunications, with physical layer signal nationwide agricultural survey and with major banks. Future work will be aimed at the use of global information and fusion of different types
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Physical layer 3.4.3 Microdevices A/D: Analog-to-digital R&D is being conducted on system LSI MAC: Media access control MIMO: Multiple input multiple output devices for audio and video systems (Figure 3). So far, a high-definition (HD) video decoder LSI Figure 2 Digital signal processing. that can handle multiple standards, including
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4. Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe (FLE) Set-top box Digital TV Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe (FLE)13) was
DVD player Mobile terminal established in a suburb of London, UK in 2001 to perform R&D that takes advantage of the DVD: Digital versatile disc excellent researchers, expertise, public Different video compression standards for different countries, regions, and services investment, and other abundant resources Multistandard video decoder LSI available in Europe. Two-thirds of the MPEG-1/2 AVS researchers have doctorates in their fields, and H.264HD VC-1 R&D is conducted in a global environment with ・Support for main standards Chinese national members from countries around the world. ・Energy efficient and inexpensive standard 4.1 R&D overview Figure 3 Multistandard video decoder LSI. There are three main R&D areas. • Next-generation services • Next-generation networks the China standard AVS, an energy-efficient • Next-generation technical computing down-decoder LSI, graphics display controller This R&D is currently being done by the LSI for car navigation systems, a full-HD multi- Services & Solutions, Network Systems, and decoder LSI that is compatible with both MPEG- Environment & Health Research Divisions. 1/2 and H.264, and other such devices have been FLE also works towards strategic cooperation developed in collaboration with Fujitsu and with industry, academia, and governments Fujitsu Laboratories.12) Development of a video and towards open innovation through the EU decoder and an audio decoder in collaboration Project, joint research with advanced research with Fujitsu Microelectronics, Ltd. (Shanghai) is organizations, and commissioned university also in progress. R&D that is more focused on research. the Chinese market is also moving forward. 4.1.1 Next-generation services 3.5 Cultural activities FLE has been active in grid computing Various cultural activities are supported to standardization, particularly by playing a deepen cultural exchange between China and central role specifying the next-generation Japan. Every year, the group co-presides over architecture Open Grid Services Architecture a Go (Weiqi) tournament for college students (OGSA) in the Open Grid Forum, an and many students from universities all over international standardization organization for China and Japan participate in this two-day grid technology.14) Fujitsu’s Unified System event. Since 2000, the group has also been Management Technology (Figure 4), which participating in tree-planting activities organized conforms to OGSA, has been adopted as the by the Beijing Investment Promotion Bureau to data cooperation platform for the EU ADMIRE strengthen friendly relations with the region. project15) on distributed data mining. That Other activities included donating tuition and project targets many distributed resources of school supplies for grade school students in Bai different kinds and is currently being extended Yang, Hebei Province in 2006. to data centers, which are the main providers of IT services. In cooperation with the Carbon Trust and
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the DoORs network design tool for wireless Figure 4 Unified System Management Technology. broadband access (Figure 5), which supports development of the Fujitsu BroadOne WX300 base station, thus reinforcing WiMAX and LTE the British Computer Society, FLE is working business in the markets of North America and of on optimization using data center simulators. Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Those simulations involve all the elements of As we progress into an aging society with a data center, including the power supply and a falling birth rate, expectations for services air conditioning, equipment arrangement, as that provide social support for elderly people well as the computers operating in the centers. are increasing in Europe. R&D on services such This comprehensive modeling makes it possible as remote healthcare and other such systems to optimize the data center with respect to for supporting the daily life of persons afflicted environmental load factors such as CO2 emissions with long-term chronic diseases is particularly and energy consumption. prevalent. FLE is performing R&D on a services Other research subjects include discovery platform for providing the network services technology for accurate determination of resource required for remote healthcare and other forms of conditions in data centers that use advanced social care. It is also performing R&D to clarify virtualization, data center symptom technology advanced use cases and increasing the reliability for problem diagnosis and recovery, and service of network services in support of Fujitsu Services’ development technology for the platform as a healthcare project in the Netherlands. service (PaaS). Concerning standardization, which will be important in the future, FLE is also putting effort 4.1.2 Next-generation networks into research on wireless body area networks, In telecommunications standardization, targeting medicine and sensor networks, and on FLE has recently participated in standardization autonomous networks for the future Internet (by activities for WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability participating in planning for the EU EFIPSANS for Microwave Access), LTE, and LTE Advanced, project).16) As an aspect of open innovation, FLE creating important intellectual property rights is participating in the planning of the digital and leading in the development of Relay System communications knowledge transfer network17) Profile Requirements for WiMAX (for which it by the UK government’s Technology Strategy received the 2008 WiMAX Forum Leadership Board and contributing as a board member. Award). Other developments in this area include In fields other than standardization, FLE
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is working toward “green wireless”. For typical in collaboration with Oxford University and cellular network operators, about 80% of all CO2 other such organizations. For the environment, emissions are from energy used for operating FLE is working with Imperial College London the network. In the era of wireless broadband on ocean simulations related to climate change telecommunications, energy conservation and (Figure 7).
CO2 emissions reductions are now major issues. While these simulations are significant If the demand for higher data transfer volumes in themselves for solving important problems (which has roughly doubled over the last two in medicine and environmental science, the years) continues, it will be necessary to decrease developed technology is intended to play a wider the energy cost per bit by at least the same factor. role as core software technology for the next FLE is developing technology to reduce energy generation of technical computing. consumption per bit to 1/100th the present value. 4.2 Activities undertaken as European R&D facilities 4.1.3 Next-generation technical computing FLE cooperates with Fujitsu Services (UK) FLE is performing R&D on software for next- and Fujitsu Technology Solutions (Germany) generation high-performance computing (HPC), and other branch companies and utilizes the making use of researcher competence in HPC, research results of Japanese and other overseas large-scale simulations, and other computations laboratories as well as its own research results. for the fields of medicine and the environment, As part of its technology marketing activities, which are important future topics, as well as FLE holds a European Technology Forum every computer-aided engineering and other fields that year to promote the latest laboratory technology are in strong demand by customers. Themes to European branch companies and customers that require specialized knowledge in fields such directly and to collect customer requirements, as simulation models are developed through joint create business opportunities, and promote research with universities, and FLE is focusing on technology incubation. developing libraries that draw out the potential capabilities of the HPC platform. For the heart 5. Conclusion simulation (Figure 6) being undertaken by the The three overseas offices in the USA, EU preDiCT project,18),19) for example, the target China, and Europe take advantage of close is to increase the simulation speed by a factor of at least 10 000 and achieve real-time simulation
Source: Oxford University Source: Imperial College London
Figure 6 Figure 7 Study of spiral electrical waves in a heart. Ocean simulation in the North Atlantic.
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Hitoshi Matsumoto Fumihiro Maruyama Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd. Mr. Matsumoto received a B.S. degree Dr. Maruyama received a B.S. degree in in Applied Physics and an M.S. degree Mathematical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Information Engineering from Nagoya degree in Information Engineering from University, Nagoya, Japan in 1977 and the University of Tokyo in 1978 and 1979, respectively. He joined Fujitsu 1991, respectively. He joined Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan in Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan 1979 and was engaged in research and in 1978 and has been engaged in development for a UNIX project and research and development of computer- the 5th Generation Computer project aided design, artificial intelligence, and and on artificial intelligence and human interfaces. From 1991, customer relationship management solutions. He is a member he managed advanced multimedia projects for FM-TOWNS at of IEEE, the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Fujitsu Ltd. From 1997, he conducted Internet services projects and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication at Fujitsu subsidiaries in the USA. He took up a new assignment Engineers (IEICE) of Japan. He received the IPSJ 20th as President & CEO of Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. in Anniversary Best Paper Award and the Professor Motooka 2006. Commemorative Award in 1980 and 1988, respectively. Since 2008, he has been Managing Director of Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd.
Takeshi Yamamura Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co., Ltd. Mr. Yamamura received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He joined Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan in 1981 and engaged in the research and development of mixed-signal LSIs and communication LSIs. In 2004, he moved to Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. Since 2008, he has been president of Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co., Ltd., Beijing, China.
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