Project Grant 2003749

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 $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at the University of Texas at Austin to develop DNA-based storage and computation techniques. Specifically, the award supports the creation of a "SIMD-DNA" paradigm that uses strand displacement reactions to manipulate digital data encoded in the topological structure of DNA. This approach aims to enable parallel, in-memory computation without...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $385,000 Project Grant to Northwestern University to develop cross-layer techniques from device to circuit and architecture for the large-scale integration of ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFET) with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. This research aims to enable emerging computing applications, such as AI, robotics, augmented/virtual reality, and autonomous...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under CFDA program 47.070 (Computer and Information Science and Engineering) provides $936,802 to William Marsh Rice University to develop a holistic computing platform for efficient and scalable pattern matching over complex, unstructured data streams. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year grant include: A novel type of nondeterministic finite-state...

This three-year, $930,252 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, will support research exploring applications of digital microfluidic technology for DNA storage, computation, and synthetic biology. A team from the University of Minnesota will leverage an electronic platform developed by industrial partner Seagate to manipulate droplets and assemble DNA at...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $266,000 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Programs, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports the development of a compact and energy-efficient "compute-in-memory" accelerator for deep learning applications leveraging ferroelectric vertical NAND memory technology. Key objectives include designing and evaluating...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $399,036 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) for the project "Collaborative Research: CCF CORE: Small: User-Transparent Data Management for Persistence and Crash-Consistency in Non-Volatile Memories." This 3-year project aims to develop a generic framework that enables unmodified legacy applications to run efficiently and correctly with...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, totaling $250,000, supports collaborative research between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Virginia Commonwealth University under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funds the development of acoustically induced ferromagnetic resonance to assist energy efficient spin torque memory devices. Researchers will work to significantly lower the...

Cache DNA, Inc. was awarded a $255,819 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Project Grant to develop a massively scalable storage solution for nucleic acids using barcoded polymer packets. The goal of the Phase I Small Business Innovation Research project is to establish a low-cost approach to maintaining the integrity of nucleic acids, including animal, bacterial, and viral genomes, at room temperature for decades without requiring energy-intensive freezing or...