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The Advanced Processor Technologies Group

The APT research group is pioneering new hardware and software technologies for a wide range of topics. The main areas of research are listed below (see here for a complete list).

Asynchronous Processors

Amulet 1/2/3, SPA, CADRE, JASPA
Amulet Processors

Award winning designs for asynchronous processors, processors with low RF noise for smartcards, low-power DSPs, Java acceleration for processors.


Chip Multi-Processors

Jamaica
Jamaica Processor

The Jamaica project is concerned with the design and simulation of next generation chip multi-processors. On a high-performance parallel simulator, processor design, operating system, compiler and dynamic compiler optimisations are considered.


Design tools

Balsa, LARD, MUCS PCB
Balsa

Tools developed by the group for system synthesis, simulation, verification and testing.


On-chip interconnect

MARBLE, CHAIN, Network Modelling, QoS, GALS
The Marble Bus

Self-timed buses and delay-insensitive networks for SoC (System-on-Chip) interconnection.


Large-scale neural network hardware

Sparse Distributed Memory

The "SpiNNaker" project is developing a hardware system capable of simulating up to a billion neurons in real time. The focus of this work is "Neural Systems Engineering" - understanding how robust high-performance computing systems can be built from unreliable component neurons


Low power design

PREST
PREST

The APT group has a wide interest in low power VLSI design of synchronous and asynchronous circuits.