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A University of Nottingham-led team of European
scientists has won a 3.41 million Euro grant to develop the wireless
communication technology of the future.
This new research project will aim to provide the
design tools for wireless chip-to-chip (C2C) communication which is essential
for the development of faster and more powerful electronic devices like mobile
phones, tablets and computers.
The substantial funding from the EU’s biggest
research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020, will enable mathematicians,
physicists and electrical engineers to collaborate to develop next-generation
chip technology and wireless networks.
Leading
the project, Dr Gregor Tanner, from The University of Nottingham’s School of
Mathematical Sciences, said: “The future of electronic communication devices
will require wireless communication at chip level. Wireless chip-to-chip
interaction and wireless links between printed circuit boards are key to the
next generation of integrated circuits and chip architecture. We need to
overcome the information bottleneck caused by wired connections but wireless
C2C networks cannot be achieved with current engineering simulation tools and models.’’
“Our
expertise at Nottingham will help design new and efficient modelling strategies for describing and exploiting
noisy electromagnetic fields in complex microchip environments. We need to deal
with the fact that input signals of these future communication systems will be
modulated, coded, noisy and eventually disturbed by other signals and the
environment and are thus extremely complex. Recent advances in Nottingham in
both mathematical physics and electrical engineering in handling complex, chaotic,
wave fields will play an important part in addressing these challenges.”
It is hoped that the
research will open up new pathways for microchip design, for signal carrier
frequency ranges as well as improving energy efficiency and miniaturization of
the technology.
The Nottingham team is
comprised of Dr Gregor Tanner, Dr Stephen Creagh and Dr Gabriele Gradoni from
Mathematical Sciences and Professor David Thomas, Dr Chris Smartt and Dr Stephen
Greedy from the Department of Electrical Engineering. They will be working with
collaborators at three other universities: the University of Nice
Sophia-Antipolis, the Technical University Munich and the Institut Supérieur de
l’Aeronautique & de l’Espace, Toulouse, as well as three industrial
partners, IMST GmbH, Germany, NXP Semi-conductors and CST AG, Germany.
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