Public Funding for Codeplay Software Limited

To embed video codec expertise, enabling the company to exploit market opportunities within the mobile device marketplace.

Several European flagship projects have emerged towards European sovereignty in chip design and computing infrastructure. Among them, the EU Processor Initiative (EPI) spearheads the development of the first EU processor. To ensure the successful integration of the EU processor into the cloud computing ecosystem and strengthen even more EU data sovereignty, it is necessary to develop the software support at the same pace with the hardware development. The harmonic relationship of the developed software and hardware is of paramount importance in order to establish an EU cloud platform able to compete with the mainstream solutions which are currently delivered by US companies. AERO aims to upbring and optimize an open-source software ecosystem that encompasses a wide range of software components ranging from operating systems to compilers, runtimes, system software and auxiliary software deployment services for cloud computing. The AERO software stack combines the aforementioned software components with novel software and hardware interfaces as a means to seamlessly exploit the heterogeneity aspects of the EU processor with regards to high performance, energy efficiency, and security. The ultimate objective of AERO is to facilitate easy migration of existing cloud customers to a cloud infrastructure that harnesses the capabilities of the EU processor. To showcase early adoption and the potential business value, the developed software and hardware technologies will be piloted by use cases representative of important EU industrial domains, such as automotive and space exploration

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To develop, test and commercialise a customised deep-learning framework on open hardware platform for assistive diagnostic applications.

"The WIZer Batteries project, led by Williams Advanced Engineering, will deliver a revolutionary approach to battery management, new hybrid supercapacitor and lithium ion battery systems and a communications platform that will deliver data and capability to customers, vehicle manufacturers and infrastructure providers. Using a very high-powered processor the battery management system (BMS) will use software and hardware acceleration to run multiple complex battery models in real time. These models will build on the work of the Faraday Institution Multi-Scale Modelling Fast Start led by Imperial College. The greater fidelity allowed by the solution will allow greater exploitation of the available energy and power within the battery, resulting in many benefits including faster charging, enhanced power delivery and higher regenerative energy collection across the full range of charge states. Codeplay Software also bring a revolutionary approach to the exploitation of processor hardware, thereby increasing the performance of the system and introducing potential for accelerated machine learning and AI techniques to be introduced. The performance benefits of this technology will be tested on a hybrid battery containing both lithium ion cells and carbon ion supercapacitors, which will be developed by Williams Advanced Engineering with Zap&Go, enabled by enhanced battery management capability and new models. Further exploiting the BMS and battery technology developed through the WIZer Batteries project will be a communications and infrastructure system to be used to capture a lifetime of data from the battery. Focussed around an optimised data set, minimising the required data transmission, the system will be designed to deliver all data required to analyse battery condition, enabling the potential operational value of the battery at the end of its first and subsequent lives to be accurately mapped. The developed solution will also deliver the required functionality for vehicle-to-grid applications, including an arbitration system that will allow the controlled charging of multiple independent vehicles with a local energy grid, supporting wider adoption of electric vehicles."

To embed video codec expertise, in order to exploit market opportunities within the mobile device marketplace.