Cooperative Agreement 70NANB7H7012

The University of California, Santa Barbara received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 15, 2021 to develop an integrated unipolar-0.5T0.5R RRAM crossbar array for neuromorphic computing. The project aims to advance research supported by the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) through July 31, 2024. Specifically, the university will utilize the funding to create a novel resistive random-access memory (RRAM)...

This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research to develop domain-specific 3D ReRAM-based Processing-in-Memory (PIM) accelerators for streaming time series applications. The collaboration between researchers at UC Riverside, Arizona State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Washington State University aims to define CBA-PIM accelerators for time series data analytics,...

This three-year, $290,739 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of a novel non-volatile nano-second right-grained reconfigurable architecture for data-intensive machine learning and graph computing applications. The proposed computing architecture, called Right-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture (RGRA), combines aspects of coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays and field-programmable gate arrays...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $650,000 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation from October 2022 to September 2025. The award will fund research into low-temperature embedded memory devices for near-memory and in-memory computing applications. Specifically, the grantee will characterize resistive random-access memory, ferroelectric field-effect transistors, and two-transistor gain-cell...

The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) received a $266,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The award will fund Penn State's development of a ferroelectric vertical NAND flash memory alternative called a vertical NAND ferroelectric field-effect transistor from FY2023-FY2027. This compute-in-memory accelerator...

This $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of hybrid cell-semiconducting polymer systems for high-density biological data storage at William Marsh Rice University. Over the two-year period from August 2022 to July 2025, the university researchers will work to encode 100 bytes of information into synthetic RNA...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to develop new approaches for designing scalable network algorithms using a new computational model called CRAM. The grant, which runs from Feb 2024 to Jan 2027, seeks to create intellectual foundations, compilers, and algorithms that leverage the dynamic allocation of content-addressable memory...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program Project Grant, with a total award of $135,177, supports research into the design of scalable computing infrastructure that leverages non-volatile memory (NVM) devices for both storage and computation. The project investigates the use of parallel current flows through NVM crossbars for fast and energy-efficient in-memory digital computations, and novel automated synthesis techniques to...

This $359,500 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of scalable three-terminal memory devices based on silicon-compatible antiferromagnetic materials at Northwestern University from June 2022 through May 2025. The university aims to design, fabricate, and characterize nonvolatile memory devices utilizing conductive antiferromagnetic materials like Mn3Sn, Mn3Ga, and IrMn3 that can be sputter deposited on silicon substrates. The project will demonstrate electrical read...

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant award of $305,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) is advancing semiconductor processing technology. The project aims to develop a novel power generator and applicator system that uses nanosecond-scale high voltage pulses to enhance the quality, reduce processing steps, and lower costs of depositing super-thin coatings for advanced semiconductor manufacturing. The technology,...