Project Grant 2313062

Award Date 8/1/23
Completion Date 7/31/27
Dollars Obligated $937K
Federal Grant Program
47.070
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Houston, TX 77005, USA
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The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year grant include:

  1. A novel type of nondeterministic finite-state automata augmented with registers, co-designed with a specialized hardware architecture leveraging content-addressable memories and efficient computational primitives. This system aims to enable ultra-efficient real-time pattern detection for applications like network security, bioinformatics, and data mining.

  2. A complete software toolchain for compiling formal pattern specifications into the custom automata model and deploying them on the hardware prototype, which will include a fabricated chip.

  3. High-quality benchmarks for pattern matching applications and exploration of new use cases in pathogen identification and human genomic data processing.

  4. Training of graduate students in this interdisciplinary area of hardware-software co-design for ultra-efficient data analytics.

The award reflects NSF's mission to support transformative computing and communications research that advances scientific discovery and technological innovation.

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