Project Grant FA95502410351

The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $731,838 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Dallas to develop algorithms and techniques for learning the hidden structure of digital and analog circuits from side-channel measurements. This work aims to advance hardware security and integrity checking by allowing adaptive interaction with circuits to intelligently model arbitrary analog circuit side-channels and utilize non-linear solvers and...

The National Science Foundation awarded Ai Linear Inc. a $252,830 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnership's program to develop a smart amplifier integrated circuit. The circuit will intelligently alter its performance parameters in response to input conditions, enabling always-on, ultra-low power Internet of Things and smart sensor applications situated at the edge. Specifically, the company will design an IC amplifier using a novel circuit that adjusts speed,...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with an obligated funding amount of $261,503, supports research to develop secure and robust intermittent computing capabilities for resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The research from the University of Texas at Austin aims to address security vulnerabilities in energy harvesting IoT nodes by creating secure intermittent-robust computation...

This $390,862 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program supports a collaborative research project titled "FET: MEDIUM: FIELD PROGRAMMABLE OSCILLATOR ISING MACHINES" at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The key objective of this 4-year project is to design, fabricate, and demonstrate integrated circuit (IC) implementations of oscillator Ising machines (OIMs) to...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $526,968 will fund the development of countermeasures against laser-assisted side-channel attacks on integrated circuits and electronic systems from 2022 to 2025. Under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will investigate "Eradicator," a multi-layer suite of sensors, randomization techniques, and tamper response mechanisms to avert such attacks....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $749,998 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to William Marsh Rice University. The 4-year grant, which commenced on October 1, 2023, supports the development of a rigorous approach for monitoring the operation of integrated circuits and the design of a software toolchain and hardware prototype that realizes these monitors. The project aims to advance the reliability, safety, and security of the...

This $900,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of hardware intellectual property protection through hybrid ASIC/TRAP integrated circuit design. The University of Texas at Dallas, in collaboration with other academic institutions and industrial partners, will transition transistor-level programmable (TRAP) fabric technology to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Ohio University a $120,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop reconfigurable threshold logic gates (TLGs) for flexible and wearable electronics. The objective is to create novel TLG circuit topologies and thin-film transistor (TFT) device designs to enable efficient neuromorphic computing on resource-constrained flexible systems. This work will also be leveraged to introduce students, including those at a local...

This $300,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program aims to develop a new, efficient, and cost-effective testing methodology for advanced integrated circuits. The research project, led by the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, will generate compact test patterns that can effectively detect internal cell-level defects in modern ICs without relying on exhaustive circuit simulations. This approach...