Mission Profile

iSLI sits at the critical interface between the academic and commercial engineering worlds. Our mission is to produce highly skilled design engineers and researchers to meet the needs of the rapidly changing global semiconductor industry.

Founded in 1998 at the Alba Centre, in Livingston, Scotland, iSLI was the world’s first centre of excellence to concentrate on postgraduate education and research in the methodology and applications of system-on-chip design, system level integration and related software and hardware technologies.

The Institute is a unique academic collaborative venture of four of the UK’s leading universities: Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Glasgow and Strathclyde, and with links to the University of the West of Scotland and Lancaster University who bring key skills in the use of MEMS technology. iSLI draws on the academic expertise of the university departments of computer science, electronic and electrical engineering and informatics to deliver leading edge research as well as first class postgraduate lecturing.

Funding for ISLI is underpinned by a financial commitment from Scottish Enterprise, Scotland’s economic development agency.

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