Block Grant 2302SCCCDX

This $225,934 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to investigate and mitigate "FPGA Pentimenti" - data leakage between subsequent users of cloud-based Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) through analog side channels. The project, led by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), aims to characterize the bounds of data recovery capabilities within the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $200,001 to Duke University to develop innovative analog correlators and circuits-system co-design to enable dense and in-situ spectrum monitoring. The key products and services to be delivered include: Ultra-efficient, single-shot analog cross-correlators capable of rapidly computing cross-correlations between input signals and template waveforms to enable low-latency spectrum sensing....

This $233,625 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund the acquisition of an automated photonic alignment/probe station with a high brightness photon-pair source and dual channel ultra-low-noise photon counter. This state-of-the-art characterization station will enable unique optical and electronic measurement capabilities for faculty, researchers, and students at the City College of New York (CCNY). The station...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program Project Grant, awarded to Duke University, aims to develop more robust object detection methods and augmented reality (AR) techniques to enhance the reliability of AR applications in real-world settings. The $599,817 award, granted on November 1, 2023, will enable the project team to: 1) design and develop a robust AR object detection framework to enhance the reliability of AR object detectors;...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award, under CFDA Program 47.070, provides $497,157 to Northeastern University to co-develop radio frequency (RF) architectures, analog computing algorithms, and compute-in-memory architectures for code-domain, multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) radar systems. The project aims to reimagine the boundary between analog and digital signal processing, enabling low-power and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $300,000 to Oregon State University to design efficient error-correcting codes and synchronization codes for applications such as flash memory systems and communication systems. The project aims to develop linear and cyclic codes using elementary symmetric functions that can correct limited magnitude errors, deletion errors, and insertion...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $247,059 to the University of California, Santa Cruz to study and develop techniques for securing cloud-based field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) from analog temporal side-channel attacks known as "FPGA pentimenti". The project investigates how data from previous FPGA users can leak through analog effects like bias temperature instability,...

This $300,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) for the period of July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. The grant supports the development of a new type of "Quantized-Analog Error-Correcting Code (QA-ECC)" to enable reliable in-memory computing for next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The research aims to...

Applied Diamond, Inc. was awarded a $206,380 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a diamond detector system for ion-beam diagnostics. The grant-funded project will support the design and testing of an innovative diamond-based detector that can be used to characterize the properties of ion beams with unprecedented resolution. This detector system aligns with the Office of Science's mission...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate provides $289,839 to The Trustees of Columbia University in New York, New York for a collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SII-NRDZ:SPECTRUM SHARING VIA CONSUMPTION MODELS AND TELEMETRY - PROTOTYPING AND FIELD TESTING IN AN URBAN FCC INNOVATION ZONE." The project period runs from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The award supports the development...