A core part of the IKC activity is a managed programme of industry-led co-created projects. We aim to have partners that cover a range of markets where the UK has strength, power management, wireless communications, photonics and sensors. This list is not exhaustive.
IKC projects will build proof of concept (PoC) offerings that demonstrate the advantage of HI techniques. They will also validate the core design and knowledge assets that the IKC develops to support the broader UK semiconductor community. The PoCs will aim to represent categories of HI systems and act as exemplars to the UK electronic systems community.
We expect the PoCs to represent different challenges to design methodologies, tools, materials and systems architecture. The projects should develop additional design and knowledge assets to extend and enhance the core design base of the IKC that can be reused and applied to other systems.
Our project teams will include both academic and industry members and this will help expand the pool of HI skilled engineers in the UK. We also aim to build early translation pathways for core research into system integration projects for real-world industrial application. In this way the IKC will promote a model of shared endeavour and knowledge sharing of the latest advances, reuse strategies and industrial context for the broader benefit of the UK semiconductor community.
We hope our projects will enable UK industry to gain insight into advances in the broader global semiconductor industry.