Block Grant 23PASCCCDX

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award, valued at $569,970, will support a research project by Georgia Tech Research Corporation to investigate new memory system architectures enabled by Compute Express Link (CXL) technology. The key objectives are to: Leverage CXL's bandwidth superiority as a potential replacement for conventional DDR-attached memory in bandwidth-constrained systems. Explore...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $6,999,998 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the deployment and operation of the COSMOS testbed and allocation system at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The COSMOS system, featuring AMD's innovative MI300A Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) technology, aims to democratize access to accelerated computing capabilities for a wide range of...

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded Analog Devices, Inc. a $19,958,193.66 project grant under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The three-year grant aims to accelerate the development of 5nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) radio transceiver application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) components, system-on-chip, and chiplets. Analog Devices plans to integrate their Rakino baseline chip with...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports a collaborative research project titled "RESEARCH INTO THE USE AND INTEGRATION OF DATA MOVEMENT ACCELERATORS (RUN-DMX)". The $695,173 award, made on August 15, 2023, aims to optimize communication overheads for high-performance computing (HPC) applications to better address the challenges caused by rapid data growth. The project develops new...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) experiment, which searches for dark matter particles using a novel detector technology. The $329,066 award, effective September 1, 2024, will enable researchers at the University of Washington to participate in the construction, installation, and commissioning of the DAMIC-M detector at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane in...

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;...

The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $299,999 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis to support research titled "CCSS: HYPER-GRAPH SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR MULTIMEDIA DATA ANALYSIS IN CYBER SYSTEM APPLICATIONS." The three-year award, issued on June 1, 2021 with a completion date of May 31, 2024, will fund the development of hyper-graph signal processing techniques to enable advanced analysis of multimedia data...

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...