Research

Completion of the MSc requires students to undertake a
project and dissertation worth 60 credits out of the 180 credit total.
Subjects are agreed between the student and the nominated academic supervisor. Suitable topics include challenging design problems or the development of new design methodologies as well as longer-term research.

Projects take 15 weeks to complete with approximately 35% of projects sponsored by industry.

Selected Projects 2006/07

• Design and Evaluation of a Branch Predictor
• FPGA-based Biological Sequence Analysis using Hidden Markov Models
• Hardware Implemetation of a GPS Receiver
• A Reliable Multi-hop Sensor Network using TinyOS

Selected Projects 2005/06

• Hardware/Software co-simulation using System C (ARM)
• Iterative Compilation (ARM)
• System level synthesis of low power systems for SoC platform
• USB to Serial Port driver for RTOS (AEA Technology)
• Low Power motion estimation architecture for MPEG4-AVC
• C programming support for Microcontroller (ZETEX)
• Modelling of RF MEMS switches using Cosserat Theory
• Power evaluation of DSP applications on a FPGA
• Memory Controller Verification using SPECMAN
• Advanced IP Verification Methodology (Mentor Graphics)

Selected Projects 2004/05

• Resource Allocation for Domain-Specific Reconfigurable Computing
  (Encryption Applications)
• Design and Implementation of Low-Power FFT processors
• Design and Implementation of an FPGA-based Router
• Low Power Analogue to Digital Converter for Power Management IC’s
• Implementation of Low-power Multithreaded Embedded Processor Core
• Design and Implementation of Instruction cache Memory for Low Power Synthesisable Embedded Processor IP Core
• Low Power Space Time Code Channel Detector IP Core Implementation
• Embedded Software Design for MPEG-4 Encoder-Decoder at Application Level Using Bluetooth Transport Medium and Integration with Micro Emissive Displays
• Low Power CORDIC IP Core Implementation