Project Grant N000142412126

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program is supporting the development of a novel hardware technology that addresses the looming spectrum deficit. The $304,638 award to Vectorwave Corporation will fund a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project to create an integrated device that can filter out interference in real-time, enabling seamless coexistence between commercial and government...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $550,000 over 5 years to Florida A&M University (FAMU) to develop a reconfigurable real-time radio frequency (RF) analog co-processor in a compact, low-cost form factor. The project aims to: Design an RF analog co-processor that can perform configurable mathematical operations directly on electromagnetic waveforms, reducing computational load in digital signal processing. Develop a film with tunable...

This Project Grant award of $508,609 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a novel chip-scale silicon photonics millimeter-wave full-duplex transceiver architecture with ultra-wideband self-interference cancellation capability. The project, led by Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), will advance communications and sensing capabilities for both civilian and defense applications through the development of new silicon...

This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to develop advanced analog circuits and systems for dense, in-situ spectrum monitoring. The key products and services to be delivered include: (1) Ultra-efficient, single-shot analog cross-correlators capable of rapidly computing cross-correlations between input signals and template waveforms. This enables low-latency spectrum sensing...

This $19,958,193.66 Project Grant was awarded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038) to Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) on February 1, 2025. The grant will fund a 3-year effort by ADI to accelerate the development of advanced 5nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) radio transceiver application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) components, system-on-chip, and chiplets....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $200,001 to Duke University to develop innovative analog correlators and circuits-system co-design to enable dense and in-situ spectrum monitoring. The key products and services to be delivered include: Ultra-efficient, single-shot analog cross-correlators capable of rapidly computing cross-correlations between input signals and template waveforms to enable low-latency spectrum sensing....

This $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of a prototype transceiver integrated circuit with wide frequency flexibility. The goal is to create a tunable and programmable radio frequency (RF) transceiver that can achieve the benefits of both hardware-tuned and software-defined radio approaches, addressing limitations in existing software-defined radio technologies....

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems provides $115,201 to develop signal cancellation technologies using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for radio astronomy services. Funded under the Engineering (47.041) program, the award supports research at the California Institute of Technology from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. Specifically, the project investigates using an intelligent surface installed near a radio...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $274,993 to Amrf LLC, a small business located in San Jose, CA, focuses on the design and development of ultra-wideband beamforming integrated circuits. The project aims to establish the feasibility of using a novel radio-frequency fractional Hilbert transformation design theory to create wideband RF front-end systems with phased arrays, which have the potential to transform...