Custom Computing for Advanced Digital Systems

先进的数字系统为英国经济增长提供了许多令人兴奋的机会。我们目前的平台补助金使我们能够实施开发新颖的定制计算解决方案的战略，其中涉及定制最新的硬件和软件元素，以满足许多应用程序的苛刻要求。这些应用包括嵌入式系统应用，如软件定义无线电和病人监护，以及高性能计算应用，如金融建模和医学成像。持续的平台资助将使我们能够在成功的基础上再接再厉，支持我们团队的战略发展，并扩大我们在定制计算技术方面的领先地位，以覆盖医疗保健、环境和安全应用的各种先进数字系统。我们有三个新的战略方向，我们有能力发挥重大影响。我们计划进行探索性研究，以确定有前途的项目，为响应模式的资金如下：1。可定制的异构架构，包括设备和系统的设计空间探索、相关开发方法和工具以及原型平台和设计可移植性增强;2.自适应设计，包括体系结构创新、自适应策略和优化策略，以及设计和验证流程;3.安全感知系统，包括架构增强、编译和测试生成环境，以及实验设施和演示流程。这项平台资助计划的增值方面包括：（a）提供持续的支援，（B）探讨重要的策略方向，（c）促进研究基础设施，（d）吸引新人才，（e）开拓和加强国际合作，（f）加速技术转让。

Advanced digital systems provide many exciting opportunities for UK economic growth. Our current Platform Grant has enabled us to implement a strategy of developing novel custom computing solutions, which involve customising the latest hardware and software elements, to meet demanding requirements from many applications. These include embedded systems applications such as software-defined radio and patient monitoring, as well as high-performance computing applications such as financial modelling and medical imaging. Continued Platform Grant funding will allow us to build on our success, to support strategic development of our team, and to extend our lead in custom computing technology to cover a wide variety of advanced digital systems for healthcare, environment, and security applications.There are three new strategic directions on which we are uniquely capable of making major impacts. We plan to conduct exploratory research to identify promising projects for responsive-mode funding for the following:1. customisable heterogeneous architectures, including design space exploration of devices and systems, relevant development methods and tools, and prototyping platforms and design portability enhancement;2. self-adapting design, including architecture innovations, adaptation policies and optimisation strategies, and design and verification flow;3. security-aware systems, including architecture enhancements, compilation and test generation environments, and experimental facilities and demonstration flow.The added value aspects for this Platform Grant proposal include: (a) providing continuity of support, (b) exploring significant strategic directions, (c) contributing to research infra-structure, (d) attracting fresh talents, (e) pioneering and strengthening international collaborations, and (f) accelerating technology transfer.