Sbir phase I: efficient arithmetic on quasi-compressed data for performance improvement

Ended Project Grant Awarded

Award ID
2111696
Recipient
Awarding agency
Obligated
$256,000

Award facts

Assistance listing
47.041 Engineering
Completion date
Place of performance
Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA

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Description

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Abstract
The broader impact of this small business innovation research (SBIR) phase I project is to improve the performance of semiconductor chips. Specifically, IT develops a novel method to operate directly on compressed data, saving time, energy, and latency. This improved performance will affect computationally intensive applications such as medical imaging (e.g., CT/MRI), climate simulation, hurricane warnings, and earthquake alerts. This small business innovation research (SBIR) phase I project develops a method to operate on compressed data. Today, computers apply data compression to identify and remove redundancy in the data in order to save storage space. Computers apply arithmetic to compute in integers or real numbers (usually represented internally as floating-point data). However, today's computers first decompress the data, compute, and then compress the computed result, consuming additional time and energy. This project develops an arithmetic and math hardware accelerator capable of processing compressed data directly to dramatically improve computation performance, storage effectiveness, and energy efficiency. This project combines data compression and floating-point engineering to deliver the first-ever compressed floating-point unit (CFPU) that minimizes semiconductor and energy usage and reduces computation latency. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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Who received award 2111696?

2111696 was awarded to Arith Inc. by Division of Industrial Innovation (National Science Foundation) on January 18, 2022.

How much is award 2111696 worth?

$256,000 has been obligated on 2111696.

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