PhD in Digital Electronic Design

This PhD explores innovative chiplet-based hardware acceleration, spanning architectural design to real ASIC tapeout. It offers flexible research directions, including reconfigurable accelerators and scalable multi-chiplet systems. You will work with industry-aligned experts to develop cutting-edge silicon prototypes using emerging heterogeneous integration technologies./nThe project spans the full design flow from architectural design through to fabricated silicon prototypes and may include: software-hardware co-design for reconfigurable accelerator chiplets; energy-efficient domain-specific acceleration including power gating and DVFS strategies for multi-chiplet accelerators; scalable accelerator arrays and tiled architectures; reconfigurable accelerator chiplets with runtime adaptability./nThe studentship is in collaboration with soclabs at the University of Southampton working closely with industry leaders in semiconductor design including Arm and Synopsys./nLocation: University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.