PhD in Ai Based Management Of Fpga Resources In Computing Systems

The application deadline for the Sep 2027 intake is Aug 31, 2027, and tuition is 17,900 GBP per year.

The PhD project focuses on developing AI-based techniques to monitor and optimize the use of FPGA resources, a critical aspect of modern computing systems.

This project is supervised by Dr Mahsa Mehrad and aims to tackle the challenge of effective allocation of hardware resources, dynamic task management, and reconfiguration of logic blocks in FPGA-based solutions.

Students will work on designing and testing adaptive partial reconfiguration strategies to improve performance and energy efficiency, and building simulation models and implementing experiments on FPGA platforms to validate proposed methods.

The integration of AI techniques will enhance the efficiency and adaptability of FPGA-based systems, with a major focus on partial reconfiguration, allowing sections of an FPGA to be updated dynamically without halting the entire device.

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