This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $218,147 to the University of Wisconsin System to develop a new computing paradigm that leverages memory fabrics as a first-class resource for instantiating, orchestrating, and reclaiming computations. The 5-year project aims to rethink rack-scale system design from memory, computing, and communication perspectives. Key focus areas include classifying remote...
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 three-year $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support research at Stanford University to develop techniques for end-user programming of computer-aided design (CAD) systems. The researchers will create a domain-specific language to describe CAD models in a way that maintains design integrity through parameter changes. They will...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop an efficient compilation and synthesis flow for translating high-level programs into domain-specific reconfigurable heterogeneous acceleration systems. The $127,484 award to the University of California, Irvine will fund research to create a framework that combines hardened digital accelerators, reconfigurable digital logic, and...
This $450,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) aims to transform the process of designing computer hardware through a novel approach to electronic design automation (EDA). The research project at Cornell University will develop differentiable hardware synthesis techniques that combine formal methods, machine learning, and parallel computing to optimize circuit design in a faster, less...
This $800,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to pioneer a computing system for massive AI workloads. The project will develop new architectural and design automation tools for a reconfigurable-on-package system using "tiny chiplets" - miniaturized composable computing components. This innovative approach seeks to address the challenges related to chiplet definition,...
This $281,385 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of advanced software developer tools to enable the use of heterogeneous computing hardware, including graphics processing units (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The goal is to lower the barriers for software engineers with varying levels...
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 $379,800 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of innovative lightweight simulation techniques to enable faster performance modeling and optimization for next-generation, large-scale computing systems. The awardee, the University of Virginia (UVA), is designing a suite of simulation tools under the "Akita" framework that encompass three complementary...
This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program aims to enhance the GEM5 simulation infrastructure to advance computer hardware and systems research. Key objectives include: Expanding the GEM5 simulator's capabilities to model future devices, improve accuracy of current models, add support for emerging hardware, and scale simulation performance. These improvements will enable researchers to better...