Doctoral focal award: chip design and verification

A funding opportunity to establish a doctoral focal award in chip design and verification supporting interdisciplinary training in very large-scale integration design and systems-on-chip. Funding is intended to support cohorts of doctoral students and to create interdisciplinary training environments involving lead organisations, collaborating organisations and project partners.

Funding to establish doctoral training (support for studentships) for two cohorts; 100% of eligible costs covered (excluding estates and indirects); opportunity to include project partners for additional contributions such as hosting placements, co-supervision and training.

Applications must be submitted by eligible UK research organisations (including higher education institutions, research council institutes, eligible independent research organisations, Catapult centres and public sector research establishments). Applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding. Organisations can apply as lead, co-lead, collaborator or project partner with specified roles and restrictions.

Lead organisations submit an application via UKRI's funding application process (UKRI Funding Service) and must detail consortium roles, project partners and training delivery in the application.