Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Silicon System Implementation, Pittsburgh, has received a $2.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop next-generation ultra-efficient silicon chips that could trigger a revolution in how chips are designed and operated. The three-year initiative involves eight faculty members who have expertise in a variety of areas that include circuit design, computer architecture, and integrated circuit chip manufacturing.
“This grant will help us give silicon chips the ability to learn more from their own big data so they can change their mission to better match the needs of the user,” said Shawn Blanton, head of the CSSI and a professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) at CMU.
The three-year initiative involves eight faculty members from ECE as well as the Robotics Institute, who have expertise in a variety of areas that include circuit design, computer architecture, integrated circuit chip manufacturing, cybersecurity and statistical learning.
Due to massive improvements in silicon chip technology during the past few decades, users are now at the cusp of a new age of ubiquitous computing with intelligent electronic systems permeating nearly every aspect of people’s lives, from wearable computers to autonomously driven cars, and even bio-implantable electronics within their bodies.
