Semiconductors and components for smart electronic platforms

UK registered businesses can apply with CR&D or R&D projects for a share of up to £18.5 million to mature and accelerate the availability of components that include semiconductors or novel technologies ready for integration into Smart Electronic Platforms

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In Short

Total Funding Total Funding

£500,000 - £2Mn

Project Duration Project Duration

Between 12 and 18 months

Application Deadline Application Deadline

1st April 2026

Themes

Your project must focus on the development of components ready for integration within smart electronic platforms used in industrial automation and autonomy.

Examples of components across the Sense, Decide, Act pipeline and platform enablement components include the following:

Components used for providing sensors with the physical world delivered for integration through for example:

 

  • in-package for example, system in-package or multi-chip modules
  • placement on the smart electronic platform’s PCB
  • as an interface component to connect to an external sensor to the smart electronic platform

Processing elements tailored for real time analysis, decision making, command and control, including:

 

  • the secure processors and hardware components for AI acceleration
  • integrated memories and storage
  • integrated communications where the primary purpose is the ‘Decision’ component

Component drivers required for off platform actuation and platform power regulation, including:

  • integrated processing
  • interface units

Components may include:

  • components required for in-package and in-platform data movement and routing
  • hardware security modules, for example, Root of Trust, eSIM, secure enclaves
  • power management and control components which will be integrated in-package or whose primary purpose is to operate on the smart electronic platform

These examples are not intended to be exhaustive.

Eligibility

Your project must: have a grant funding request of between £500,000 and £2 million, last between 12 and 18 months, start by 1 August 2026 and end on 31 January 2028. Any funded organisation needs to carry out their project work in the UK and must intend to exploit the project results from or in the UK. To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size. You can use a previously submitted application to apply for this competition.

Our Approach

The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.

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