Research Associate - Heterogeneous Integration: Systems Architecture and Design

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University of Sheffield

Overview

CHIMES² — the Centre for Heterogeneous Integrated MicroElectronic and Semiconductor Systems — is one of the UK’s national semiconductor research-translation programmes, a £16.3M Innovation and Knowledge Centre led by the University of Sheffield. We are appointing a Research and Innovation Fellow in Systems Architecture and Design to its CTO Office.

This is not a conventional postdoctoral research post. Its core is landscape analysis and roadmap intelligence — reading the international state of the art in system architecture, chiplet partitioning and front-end design, identifying the gaps the UK must close, and turning that into the knowledge infrastructure a national programme runs on. A research theme of your own is developed alongside that work, not instead of it.

This post focuses on the ‘logical’ layer of heterogeneous integration — partitioning a system into functional chiplets and dies, specifying cross-die interfaces, and establishing the system-level architecture that determines what is integrated, how it is interconnected, and what performance, power and security properties the assembled system must deliver. This spans system-technology co-optimisation (STCO/XTCO), front-end design automation (RTL, logic synthesis, architectural exploration, floor planning, partition-aware EDA flows), chiplet interconnect standards (UCIe, CXL, die-to-die PHY), and the open Design Commons methodology CHIMES² is building as its core knowledge infrastructure.

Job description:

The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) belongs to the prestigious Faculty of Engineering. We are one of the largest academic communities of engineers in the UK, ranked joint 1st for Research Environment in the last Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021)! Our specific field (EEE) is also ranked very highly, which is a marker of our excellence and ambition (QS 2024: 11th in UK, The Guardian 2024: 3rd, The Times Higher 2024: 7th in the UK).

We are home to several national institutes and centres, for example:

• The National Epitaxy Facility,
• The National 6G Radio Systems Facility,
• Rolls-Royce Control, Monitoring and Systems Engineering University Technology Centre.

We strive to conduct fundamental research and innovation to address global challenges, as well as support the education of the next generation of engineers.

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable and inclusive place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a generous annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pension scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

Find out more at www.sheffield.ac.uk/benefits and join us to become part of something special!

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.

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