Lacewing

Caption: CAS PhD students Kenny Malpartida and Ivanna Pennisi from Dr Pantelis Georgiou's research group in the Centre for Bio-inspired Technology are conducting clinical trials in Ghana to rapidly detect Malaria using ISFET-based Lab-on-Chip technology (@LacewingCBIT).

Diagram showing Jianyi Cheng's work

Caption: Static scheduling produces small but slow hardware, while dynamic scheduling produces fast but large hardware. PhD student Jianyi Cheng is combining those two existing scheduling techniques into "dynamic static scheduling", which can produce small and fast hardware.

Spence

Caption: A representation of an interactive system, suited to usability studies (Bob Spence and Leah Redmond)

Herklotz ribbon diagram

Caption: The diagram shows how bugs are introduced and fixed in different versions of a hardware synthesis tool. PhD student Yann Herklotz and his supervisor Dr John Wickerson have been working on finding bugs in the logic synthesis process by generating random hardware designs.

Circuits as neural networks

Caption: CAS researchers are improving digital design processes by exploiting the similarity between circuits and neural networks.

KaPow graph

Caption: Researchers in the Circuits and Systems group have developed a tool called KAPow that can accurately monitor how much power the individual components in an FPGA are consuming.

Kouris drone

Caption: PhD student Alexandros Kouris and his supervisor Dr Christos Bouganis have designed a neural network to help unmanned aerial vehicles, such as the drone in the picture, avoid mid-air collisions.

He Li digits

Caption: PhD student He Li is designing new hardware for computer arithmetic, in which digits are calculated out-of-order. The aim is to be able to use a single piece of hardware to calculate results to any required precision.

Picciau graph 1

Caption: This image is a visual representation of energy management problems for green buildings. In the Circuits and Systems research group, Dr Andrea Picciau has used these representations to reason about how to solve those problems more efficiently with innovative computing technologies.

The Circuits and Systems (CAS) research group pursues fundamental scientific advances and technological breakthroughs for future electronic circuits, systems, and sensors, driven by scientific curiosity and by industrial and societal needs.

The group is made up of three sub-groups:

Analogue Circuits and Systems

Analogue CAS research includes ultra low-power circuits, particularly for biomedical applications, analogue circuit synthesis, ultra wideband circuits, power amplifiers, robust analogue/mixed-signal circuits, and design methods.

Academic staff

Christos Papavassiliou

Christos Papavassiliou

Esther Rodriguez-Villegas

Esther Rodriguez-Villegas

Bio-Inspired Technology

Inspired by lifestyle aspirations and biological systems, the Centre for Bio-inspired Technology invents, develops and demonstrates devices to meet global challenges in healthcare and well-being by mimicking living systems effectively and efficiently to create innovative and advanced technologies.

Academic staff

Tim Constandinou

Tim Constandinou

Pantelis Georgiou

Pantelis Georgiou

Chris Toumazou

Chris Toumazou

Digital Circuits and Systems

Digital CAS research is focussed on reconfigurable systems, including architectures, high-level synthesis tools, memory and arithmetic optimisation. We also research applications of reconfigurable hardware in domains such as video processing, network processing, bioinformatics, control and financial modelling.

Academic staff

Christos Bouganis

Christos Bouganis

Peter Cheung

Peter Cheung

George Constantinides

George Constantinides

John Wickerson

John Wickerson

Aaron Zhao

Aaron Zhao

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We are always looking for talented PhD applicants.  It is not strictly necessary to contact a potential supervisor before making your application, but you may wish to do so in order to informally discuss research topics.  

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