XMOS joins EU ENTRA project
A UK-based fabless chip designer is to take part in the European Commission’s ENTRA project, it has been announced.
XMOS, based in Bristol, England, will participate in the ENTRA (Whole-Systems Energy Transparency) research project, which focuses on the development of more energy efficient IT products.
Experts will use advanced program analysis and energy consumption models in the anticipation of better predicting energy consumption in software earlier during the design phase. It’s hoped this will enable the development of greener IT products.
Speaking about the project, Dr Henk Muller, principal technologist at XMOS, said: “The ENTRA project is designed to analyse and predict energy usage and make these predictions available to system developers. By optimising code development it will be possible to create more energy efficient computer systems, something which is crucial when developing technologies that meet the increasing green credentials that we all demand.”
The ENTRA project runs over three years and receives funding worth €2.1m from the Seventh Framework Programme and the Future and Emerging Technologies programme. The project is co-ordinated by Roskilde University in Denmark and also includes the University of Bristol and the IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid, Spain.
