Project Grant DESC0026169

Impact Photonics LLC received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compatible single photon avalanche diode. The SBIR program is intended to support scientific research and development that has the potential for commercialization. Under this Phase I award made on November 1, 2021 for a one-year period ending December 31, 2022, Impact Photonics...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $599,304 three-year Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support the development of novel methods and hardware architectures for optimization and acceleration of spiking neural networks. Key products will include algorithms, software design tools, and field-programmable gate array hardware architectures and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Project Grant, award ID 2403723, provides $500,000.00 to Cornell University to develop novel algorithms and hardware designs for energy-efficient, memory-optimized spiking neural network (SNN) systems on edge computing devices. The project aims to advance the practical deployment of neuromorphic computing for applications like drones, autonomous robots, portable medical devices, and wearable...

Purdue University was awarded a $1,304,216 Project Grant by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to develop and test a new platform for high-density 3D electrophysiology and two-photon calcium imaging in freely moving animals. The goal is to enable simultaneous recording of millisecond electrical dynamics and spatial mapping of neural circuit activity during natural behaviors to better understand how the brain processes...

This $255,999 National Science Foundation award under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support Zenoleap LLC's development of novel superconducting neuromorphic computing circuits. The awardee will design, fabricate, and characterize atomic-tunable memristors and superconducting quantum interference device neurons to enable true biological brain-inspired deep learning network algorithms. This superconducting neuromorphic circuit aims to significantly improve energy...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $430,000 Project Grant to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to develop scalable single photon detection systems. The 3-year project seeks to adapt existing perimeter gated single photon avalanche diode (PGSPAD) technology to other semiconductor platforms, create a scalable detection architecture with wireless integration, and test the new devices through fabrication and simulation....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $272,615 to Lab2701 LLC to develop an Oscillator Processing Unit (OPU), a novel analog computing device intended for edge computing applications. The OPU aims to overcome the Von Neumann bottleneck, enabling faster, more energy-efficient, and smaller form factor computing compared to traditional digital processors. The project leverages two...

This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) supports a collaborative research project on "Spintronics Enabled Stochastic Spiking Neural Networks with Temporal Information Encoding". The goal is to advance neuromorphic computing architectures that can achieve brain-scale efficiency for complex machine learning through a multi-disciplinary approach spanning device physics,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant, awarded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to develop a lightweight, learning-based image signal processing (ISP) algorithm for photon-limited imaging. The $274,702 award to Deeplux Technology, Inc. will fund the optimization and implementation of the "Small and Learnable ISP Module" (SLIM) on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Key...

This 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), provides $173,894 to Kennesaw State University Research And Service Foundation, Inc. to develop a neuromorphic processing framework for spatiotemporal fusion of visual sensors. The awardee will design a hybrid neuromorphic framework composed of spiking neural networks and conventional artificial neural...