An introduction into the structure of FZK and the mechanisms of technology transfer (TT) used for internal and external collaborations are given. At several examples of instrumentation the great variety of TT at the IPE is demonstrated. As examples serve a vibration sensor, an electronic nose, and a micro-spectrometer developed as Microsystems, and a new simple phase sensitive micro-force-microscope for nano-technology. The R&D connections of these applications are embedded systems and system-on-chip (SOC).
On larger scale of instrumentation the development of an ultra-sound computer-tomograph is described with its tight connections to massive parallel processing and to particle physics, as the electronic read-out of the Auger fluorescence detector.