Block Grant 2401PRCCDX

Pacific Microchip Corp. received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 21, 2023 to fund development of a HIGH CHANNEL DENSITY DIGITAL ACQUISITION SYSTEM. The award is part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Under the award, Pacific Microchip Corp. will...

Prixarc LLC was awarded a $199,899 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop a high-channel count, picosecond timing resolution and extreme radiation hardness time to digital converter. The project is being conducted in Beavercreek Township, Ohio under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness....

This Project Grant award for $670,928 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support the DAMIC experiment, which searches for light dark matter particles using a novel silicon charge-coupled device (CCD) detector technology. The award will enable the University of Chicago and University of Washington research groups to participate in the construction, installation, and commissioning of the DAMIC-M detector to be installed at the...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $199,824.00 to Diversified Technologies, Inc. to develop a solid state transmitter for the ICRF DCC system. The award period is from February 12, 2024 to October 11, 2024. Diversified Technologies, Inc. is a small business electronics manufacturer based in Bedford, Massachusetts that specializes in advanced research, development, and production of high...

This SBIR Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $304,900 to Magnolia Electronics Inc. to develop a machine-learning enabled analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The project aims to demonstrate a new patent-pending approach to ADCs that can capture more information than traditional designs, with potential applications in high-speed data transmission for computer networks and data centers. The project...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $299,686 will fund the University of Connecticut (UConn) to design efficient tools that automatically manage the algorithm design, deployment and resource management of multiple co-existing network functions (NFs) through a new concept called consolidated data planes. Key objectives include: Developing an automatic tool to construct consolidated data plane...

This three-year, $599,939 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a hardware/software codesign framework for dynamically composing disaggregated hardware systems securely. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the work aims to address system security and performance challenges to make disaggregated computing practical. Key products include a virtualized remote memory architecture, object-level data tracking for efficient...

Impact Photonics LLC received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compatible single photon avalanche diode. The SBIR program is intended to support scientific research and development that has the potential for commercialization. Under this Phase I award made on November 1, 2021 for a one-year period ending December 31, 2022, Impact Photonics...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $596,738 to the University of California, Merced to develop the Open DPU-Offloading Data Transfer Architecture (OpenDOTA) framework. The goal of this 3-year project, which runs from Jul 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2028, is to leverage Data Processing Units (DPUs) to accelerate data movement and enhance efficiency in high-performance computing (HPC) and...

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....