Project Grant FA86552518027

This $430,234 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of testing and design-for-test techniques for monolithic 3D integrated circuits at Arizona State University. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the award will advance research on built-in self-test solutions, test generation methods, and power distribution designs to enable reliable testing and defect isolation in multitiered 3D chip architectures. Outcomes...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $157,203 Project Grant to the University of Arizona under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct research related to scaling general-purpose processors into the exascale era. Specifically, the award will fund research to design reconfigurable aggregated virtual chips utilizing heterogeneous aggregated chiplets and a hybrid wireless interconnection network. This is intended to enable systems...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will fund research by George Washington University (GWU) to design and develop multi-functional, self-healing, and cross-layer optimized electro-optic fabric for computing architectures and accelerators. The overarching goal is to enhance the sustainability of computing systems by reducing embodied energy and extending the operational lifetime of...

This three-year, $290,739 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of a novel non-volatile nano-second right-grained reconfigurable architecture for data-intensive machine learning and graph computing applications. The proposed computing architecture, called Right-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture (RGRA), combines aspects of coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays and field-programmable gate arrays...

This $709,723 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research by Georgia Tech Research Corporation on optimal thermal management for continued scaling of 3D heterogeneous computing systems. The research aims to address the critical challenge of escalating power consumption and thermal issues facing the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-intensive computing. The project will integrate...

The University of New South Wales received a $223,350 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support basic research activities under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) from February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2024. The grant funds alternative approaches to investigating stability and transition as proposed in the grantee's September 9, 2021 application titled "BASIC RESEARCH FOR AOARD PROPOSAL 21IOA136 'AN...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a $2,135,810.00 Project Grant to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to establish a University Center of Excellence for research and education on programmable computing fabric solutions for critical Air Force communications needs. The 2-year grant, with a performance period from March 2025 to June 2027, will fund FAU's efforts to prototype, test, and evaluate agile, autonomous,...

This $1,600,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) aims to improve the resilience of space systems against cyber attacks. The grant supports the development of new cryptographic techniques and distributed algorithms to prevent, mitigate, and recover from cyber attacks on space systems, taking into account the unique characteristics of space-based architectures. The key research activities...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of a new testing methodology to enhance the detection of internal defects in state-of-the-art integrated circuits. The research project aims to generate compact and efficient tests that can comprehensively cover a wide range of resistive defects within individual circuit cells, as well as capture the timing impact of a...

This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $150,000.00 to Arizona State University (ASU) to conduct research on "UNDERSTANDING SELF-HEALING PROPERTIES THROUGH STRAIN-DRIVEN EVOLUTION OF IONS IN METAL HALIDE PEROVSKITES." The research, which will take place from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, aims to advance scientific understanding and develop innovative technologies in...