System-on-chip (SoC) development for maritime technologies

The project goal is to explore innovations in system-on-chip (SoC) for maritime sensing. The specific objectives are:

1. Collaborating with the Industrial Partner, generate requirements for a SoC system for incorporation into the maritime environment.

2. Generate a preliminary circuit configuration to fulfil, where possible, the defined requirements, prototype using commercial off the shelf components on printed circuit board (PCB) technology and assess its performance.

3. Assess the performance of the prototyped device, identify strengths and weaknesses of the design before optimising the design for system-on-a-chip prototyping. 4. Demonstrate the SoC design at TRL-5 in a representative environment at a Ultra facility in either the UK or Canada.

5. Provide a review to industrial partner on the viability of incorporating system-on-a-chip technology into the maritime environment.

6. Scope to team with another FUSE project to prototype a sonar solution with sensor technology based on a novel piezoelectric material.