Research Themes

The electronic design industry demands high levels of skill and creativity, and requires multidisciplinary teams in subjects including system architecture, hardware/software IP creation and design methodology.

The requirements of EngD are met primarily through research work consisting of one or more significant projects. It is important that all research provides solutions to real-world problems experienced by the industrial sponsor. The scope of research problems include:

Applications

• Development and evaluation of IP blocks to implement novel algorithms for communications and signal processing.
• Neural algorithms for adaptive systems.
• Highly parallel systems for specialist sensing applications, e.g., bio-sensors.

System Design

• System partitioning and hardware/software codesign.
• Methodology development.
• Formal specification of IP blocks and verification of compositional schemes.
• Novel architectures including evolutionary hardware, reconfigurable and adaptive systems.
• Design of hybrid analog/digital systems.
• Performance modelling.
• Design techniques and tools for low power and high speed systems.

Realisation & Future Technologies

• Issues in the limits of miniaturisation: performance of ultra-small devices and design techniques to overcome inherent uncertainties.
• Process modelling, characterisation, forecasting and design.
• New technologies and processes including SOI and SiGe.

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