CSIT Joins £12M National Research Centre Supporting UK Semiconductor Ambitions
Researchers at CSIT, °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Belfast, are joining a £12M national research centre aiming to strengthen the UK’s ability to design the next-generation of advanced electronic systems & support the ambitions of the UK Semiconductor Strategy.
The Centre for Heterogeneous Integrated MicroElectronic and Semiconductor Systems (CHIMES²) will develop new ways to combine multiple microchips into smaller, faster and more energy-efficient systems - a critical challenge as electronic devices continue to shrink and increase in complexity.
Semiconductors power everything from smartphones and data centres to electric vehicles and medical equipment. As traditional circuit boards reach their limits, the future lies in “Heterogeneous Integration” - combining different semiconductor technologies into highly integrated, secure systems.
Led by the University of Sheffield, CHIMES² brings together researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Queen’s University Belfast, Strathclyde, Edinburgh, Newcastle, King’s College London, Manchester, and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). CHIMES is funded by the Department for Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT), delivered and monitored via UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Dr Chongyan Gu, Senior Lecturer in CSIT at Queen’s University Belfast, co-lead of CHIMES², said:
“CSIT’s research as part of CHIMES² will pioneer the investigation of hardware security in heterogeneous integration (HI) and develop novel secure-by-designs to achieve feasible, sustainable, and attack-resistant architectures with high entropy and efficiency. CHIMES² will establish hardware security for HI as a coherent research area, sitting at its conceptual and practical core, shaping how HI-based systems are designed, evaluated and trusted. This project is timely to reduce risks for UK and international industries adopting HI techniques in semiconductor.”
Professor Máire O’Neill, Director of RISE and Regius Professor at CSIT, Queen’s University Belfast said:
” As a world-leading cybersecurity research centre at Queen’s University Belfast, CSIT will help CHIMES² to develop practical solutions to protect heterogeneous integration and work closely with industry to address real-world security challenges in semiconductor. As the director of the UK Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE), CHIMES² and RISE will collaborate closely to address the research challenges in hardware and semiconductor systems and accelerate the industrial uptake of research outputs and its translations for the wider benefit of the UK economy.”
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