Technology
The Division has been extremely successful in knowledge and technology transfer with the spinout of Transitive, the world-leader in software for dynamic binary translation, Silistix, producing tools to automate the design of asynchronous networks-on-chip, and Cogniscience, developing hardware and software systems for large-scale neural networks. The Division has also produced Balsa, the widely used public domain software for asynchronous system design.
The Division is a founder member of the UK Data Storage Network, which has been formed to encourage closer collaboration between members with research expertise from both academic and industrial backgrounds. It is a key player in the RealityGrid e-science project, a global effort to grid-enable the simulation of complex condensed matter structures at the meso and nanoscale levels.
Advanced Processor Technologies
The group is led by Professor Steve Furber and Professor Ian Watson
- Asynchronous logic -- high density, low power
- Asynchronous systems
- On-chip multiprocessing
- Networks-on-chip
- Hardware neural networks
- Exact arithmetic
- Novel chip architectures -- very large scale systems
EISS
Leading members of the group include Dr Jim Miles and Dr Ernie Hill
- Magnetic and optical storage
- Sensors
- Nanotechnology -- high density storage and sensors
Centre for Novel Computing
The group is led by Professor John Gurd
- Automatic parallelising tools
- Parallel algorithms and architectures
