Project Grant 2002853

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) project grant award for $599,493 aims to develop a holistic framework that integrates novel solutions to overcome the limitations of existing pre-silicon verification and post-silicon validation methods for system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The project, titled "SHF: SMALL: A Communication-Centric Validation Framework for System-on-Chip Designs," focuses on representing and analyzing cross-block...

This $350,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will fund the development of an open-source, multiscale, application-agnostic platform (OPEN-MAP) for heterogeneous system-in-package co-design. Led by Purdue University, the consortium aims to break barriers across applications, design domains, and abstraction levels in modeling, simulation, optimization, and design through OPEN-MAP. The platform will...

This CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $134,992 to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029. The project aims to develop methods to reduce energy consumption in large artificial intelligence (AI) systems through a co-design approach that integrates dynamic model connectivity, heterogeneous architectures, and hardware-aware model adaptation. The...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program will develop novel algorithms and software tools to help semiconductor chip designers optimize their designs and improve chip quality. The $108,140 award to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) will focus on two key activities: (1) zeroth-order gradient-based circuit optimization, including deterministic...

This Project Grant award of $450,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop novel approaches to electronic design automation (EDA) for creating high-performance and efficient computer hardware. The research introduces a strategy that combines formal techniques with learning-based optimization to enable differentiable hardware synthesis, particularly suited for heterogeneous computing. This new...

This $749,997 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into robust enforcement of customizable resource constraints in heterogeneous embedded systems. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the three-year award running from October 2021 to September 2024 will advance development of techniques to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation in computing, communications, and information science at the Colorado School of...

This Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The award will support research to develop a novel compositional framework and computational tools for designing and verifying learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (CPS) that can ensure functional safety and robustness. The $213,679 award to the University of California, Berkeley will leverage stochastic models,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program awarded a $400,000 project grant to Arizona State University to develop sustainable design techniques for very large-scale integrated (VLSI) systems with heterogeneous integration. The 3-year project, which commenced on October 1, 2023, aims to measure and reduce the carbon footprint associated with the design and manufacturing of these complex integrated circuits. Key objectives include: (a)...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $215,908 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California, Riverside under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a comprehensive memory management ecosystem called MEMDRIVE. The project aims to optimize memory usage throughout the application and system stack for resource-constrained embedded systems, addressing the "memory wall" problem that limits performance and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award for $500,000 will fund research by the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop new theories, algorithms, and tools for the efficient and assured design of complex nonlinear cyber-physical systems. The key objectives are to enable more effective and robust control of such systems, which have applications in safety-critical domains like aviation and...