This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $250,000 to the University of Texas at Austin to design and experimentally demonstrate reversible and reservoir computing systems using magnetic skyrmions. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include:
Co-designing skyrmion-based reversible logic gates and developing a roadmap for skyrmion reversible computing. This will involve fabricating and analyzing stable skyrmion propagation, interactions, and reversible logic operations.
Co-designing skyrmion-based reservoir computing systems to maximize energy efficiency and expressivity, and creating a roadmap for skyrmion reservoir computing. This will include fabricating and characterizing skyrmion reservoir computers.
The project aims to advance materials science, device designs, and computing paradigms to enable extremely energy-efficient high-performance and AI hardware systems. It also incorporates workforce development through undergraduate research and graduate student training.