Our research areas

Projects

Our research pushes the boundaries of knowledge

Our research activities are organised into distinct collaborative projects, representing areas of joint interest. A number of people work on each project, including ECS academics, researchers, PhD students and Arm researchers.

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Current Projects

Research projects that are currently active within the Centre are shown below.

Semiconductor Education Alliance
The future of semiconductors – which are used to power billions of electrical items worldwide – will be driven by the University of Southampton after it allied with big tech businesses to develop a new generation of skilled workers. The Arm-ECS Research Centre is pleased to be at the centre…

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Efficient Learning on Resource-Constrained Embedded Systems
The continual collection of user data by Internet-of-Things devices to train machine learning models in the cloud raises concerns about user privacy. Shifting the training phase from the cloud to IoT end- nodes could eliminate these concerns and allow model updates even in the presence of wireless communication constraints. However,…

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Arm Academic Access
The Arm Academic Access program provides institutional access to the most commonly used Arm technology – including processor IP for microcontrollers, application processors, systems IP, tools and resources. Access is arranged through a simple institutional agreement, which enables all relevant academic researchers within the institution to benefit from the technology…

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Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Design for Secure Anti-Tamper Embedded Devices
The attack surface on computing devices is becoming very sophisticated. This trend is driven by two major factors. The first is the rapid increase of the number of connected devices, with more than 50 Billion devices expected to be deployed before 2025. The second factor is the remarkable growth of…

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Energy Efficient DNNs for Inference at the EDGE
There is growing interest in being able to perform DNN inference at the edge (i.e. on or close to end devices), for reasons of latency, privacy/security, bandwidth, power, etc. However, such embedded devices are typically highly constrained, featuring low-power microcontrollers with limited memory, processing power, and energy reserves. The aim…

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Holistic Design of Secure Systems on Capability Hardware
The HD-Sec project will address engineering challenges in establishing and formally verifying the relationship between application-level security requirements and secure software implementations running on capability hardware. Even if software has been verified as secure, it is likely to be running on hardware that is vulnerable to cyber-attack because of poor…

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International Centre on Spatial Computational Learning
This recently announced EPSRC International Centre will bring together researchers from the University of Southampton, Imperial College London, the University of Toronto and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Industrial partners include Arm, Imagination Technologies, Xilinx, Corerain, and Maxeler Technologies. More information will appear here in due course. In…

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MINDS Centre for Doctoral Training
The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Machine Intelligence for Nano-Electronic Devices and Systems (MINDS) at the University of Southampton will develop and nurture the next generation of technology pioneers who will have the skills, assets and network to innovate at the Artificial Intelligence and Electronics interface to enable systems…

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Wearable and Autonomous Computing for Future Smart Cities
The focus of this Platform Grant is the combination of wearable systems networked with smart city and building management systems, and the processing of the collected data. The Platform will cover infrastructure and devices and will require innovation in hardware and software in order to realise the goal of a…

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