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2025 Scientific Report • April 2, 2026

Digital Twins: virtual tools with a very real impact

Digital Twins, which are built on complex and heterogeneous technologies, are becoming more widely used. The purpose of this research was to come up with a qualitative methodology for assessing the economic and environmental costs associated with Digital Twins.

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2025 Scientific Report • April 2, 2026

The Digital Twin, an enabler of flexible, dynamic production lines

CEA-List used its Papyrus4Manufacturing modeling platform to design a new software architecture to provide the flexibility and automation needed to make ondemand production a reality.

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2025 Scientific Report • April 1, 2026

Finite element modeling of ultrasonic propagation in viscoelastic media

For the simulation of viscoelastic wave propagation, conventional explicit schemes like those used in our CIVA non-destructive testing simulation software become impractical in the presence of localized contrasts or fine meshes emanating from complex geometries.

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2025 Scientific Report • April 1, 2026

AI for faster multi-physics simulation: an architecture for nonlinear structural mechanics

LEBNN, developed by CEA-List, is a neural network architecture for the mechanics of statically hyperelastic structures.

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2025 Scientific Report • March 30, 2026

A machine-learning-based methodology for fast and efficient modeling of power consumption in digital architectures

In this research, we proposed an AI-assisted methodology to significantly speed up power consumption modeling. Clustering techniques are used to select representative windows, automatically reducing register transfer level (RTL) traces.

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2024 Activity Report • June 27, 2025

Formal methods for program analysis

CEA-List possesses a formal methods-based toolkit that can help cybersecurity experts pinpoint vulnerabilities in software and prove that software protects data privacy and integrity—something that is required for the highest levels of software security certification.

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2024 Activity Report • June 27, 2025

NACRE, a digital twin for the design of RTE’s future power grid control system

CEA-List is working with RTE on the design of the power grid infrastructure operator’s future power grid control system.

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2024 Activity Report • June 19, 2025

Analyzing robustness of secure systems against fault injection attacks: in processor microarchitecture

Fault injection attacks threaten the security of digital systems. CEA-List and Graz Technical University (Austria) developed a new pre-silicon analysis method that led to the world’s first demonstration of the robustness of a processor and its boot code against these attacks.

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