The Institute for Computing System Architecture (ICSA) will provide students with academic resources and industry links that are among the best in the world.

University of Edinburgh are home to the UK’s largest group of PhD researchers in the field, and host a Centre of Excellence in partnership with ARM, the world’s largest microprocessor intellectual property provider. They are also a member of the European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation.

The current research is focused on the areas of:

compilers and architectures
parallel computing
wireless networking
processor-automated synthesis by iterative analysis.
While the scope for research is wide, each area is underpinned by University of Edinburgh's fundamental aims:

to extend understanding of existing systems
to improve current systems
to develop new architecture and engineering methods