Project Grant 2504227
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $307,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) for the "Collaborative Research: FET: MEDIUM: Processor in Memory Architecture Based on Topological Electronics (PRIMATE)" project. The project aims to explore the use of quantum materials with exotic properties to develop novel Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) that can provide...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Virginia. The award supports collaborative research to develop a hardware-software co-design approach for high-performance in-memory analytic data processing, addressing challenges in analyzing large volumes of data. The research focuses on designing...
- This $351,653 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with a period of performance from June 2025 to May 2028, will fund the development of PRISM, a novel probabilistic computing engine enabled by oscillator networks. The goal is to create a more capable probabilistic computing platform that can efficiently solve computationally intensive problems relevant to fields like machine learning,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the University of South Alabama. The two-year award, effective January 1, 2025, supports research on memristor-based computing-in-memory (CIM) for neuromorphic systems. The project aims to investigate the design, optimization, and fabrication of memristor-based CIM technology for energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) computation, with a focus on emerging AI...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,149,999 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Federal Grant Program to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. This 3-year grant, effective July 1, 2024, will fund the development of an open-source ecosystem of modeling tools for quantum hardware. The project aims to democratize access to quantum technology by creating user-friendly tools that allow researchers to model quantum systems...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,498,658 project grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to the University of Virginia. The grant, entitled "ASCENT: FERROELECTRIC-BASED COMPUTE-IN-MEMORY DYNAMICAL ENGINE (FERRO-CODE) TO SOLVE HARD COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION," aims to develop a ferroelectric-based compute-in-memory dynamical engine to solve hard combinatorial optimization problems. The University of Virginia will lead the effort to design hardware and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $268,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Notre Dame DU Lac's Notre Dame Research Division for a 4-year collaborative research project on developing a compact and energy-efficient compute-in-memory accelerator for deep learning using ferroelectric vertical NAND memory. The objective is to design, evaluate, and prototype a novel vertical NAND memory technology based...
- This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE, CFDA 47.070) program supports a collaborative research effort led by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The project aims to develop a hardware-software co-design approach for high-performance in-memory analytic data processing. Key technical thrusts include mechanisms for in-place data analytics on dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), processing-in-memory (PIM)...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees Office of Research Division (UCF) to conduct research on taming large memory page challenges for memory bulk operations using a hardware/software co-design approach. The goal is to significantly improve the speed and bandwidth of single-level DRAM combined with ultra-low latency, non-volatile...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $613,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA). The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FET: MEDIUM: PROCESSOR IN MEMORY ARCHITECTURE BASED ON TOPOLOGICAL ELECTRONICS (PRIMATE)," aims to explore the use of quantum materials with exotic properties to develop innovative application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and "processor-in-memory" (PIM) architectures. The project will design, simulate, fabricate, characterize, and experimentally demonstrate these novel hardware solutions that can potentially achieve unprecedented size, weight, power, and performance advantages over conventional computing platforms. Additionally, the project plans to develop virtual training platforms and online student evaluation methods to engage the public and train the next generation of students in these emerging technologies.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $613.0k | 8/21/25 |