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The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $1,482,618 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop a next-generation charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor optimized for astronomical spectroscopy. The project aims to demonstrate the ability to readout a 4096x4096 pixel CCD image in a few minutes instead of hours, which will significantly improve the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) 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 objective is to leverage data processing units (DPUs) to accelerate data movement and enhance efficiency in HPC and AI cyberinfrastructures. Key focus areas include adaptive point-to-point data movement,...

This $19,958,193.66 Project Grant was awarded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038) to Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) on February 1, 2025. The grant will fund a 3-year effort by ADI to accelerate the development of advanced 5nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) radio transceiver application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) components, system-on-chip, and chiplets....

This Formula Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.205 - Highway Planning and Construction) provides $1,399,313.05 in federal funding to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) for the CMAQ DRCOG REGIONAL TDM UNMATCHED 25-26 project. The project will support regional transportation demand management (TDM) activities throughout the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) region in Colorado during the 2025/2026 timeframe. The funding, awarded on June 25,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Project Grant, awarded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $250,000 in funding to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The project aims to develop novel transceiver architectures, circuit blocks, design techniques, and communication strategies to enable energy-efficient millimeter wave wireless networks. The research effort...

This three-year, $299,937 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support research at San Diego State University and collaborating institutions on energy-efficient terahertz communications technologies for beyond fifth-generation wireless systems. The award funds four interconnected research thrusts: 1) channel estimation, performance analysis, and hardware design for doubly massive MIMO systems using...

This $926,538 cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation will support the development of long-stroke micromachined arrayed cell electrostatic actuators for highly integrated micro-positioning applications by Silicon Dynamix, Inc. The award reflects the NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, which seeks to advance science, engineering, and innovation leading to breakthrough technologies and solutions to national challenges. Specifically, the project will utilize...

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), awarded a $1,136,746 project grant 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 goal is to reimagine the boundary between analog and digital signal processing for MIMO radar,...

The Portland State University was awarded a $199,244 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Engineering program to develop bandwidth-efficient photon data capture and processing techniques for single-photon avalanche diode cameras. The goal is to enable megapixel and higher resolution SPAD cameras by addressing the data bandwidth challenge through hardware and algorithmic reconfigurability of the SPAD pixel array. The...

Tiami LLC will develop a three-dimensional indoor tracking system utilizing digital television (DTV) stations as positioning beacons under a $197,362 cooperative agreement from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology. The award is part of the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) to evaluate and stimulate technological innovation. Specifically, Tiami will design signal processing algorithms and evaluate positioning...