Semiconductor Research Corp., (SRC), Durham, N.C., announces the release of $26 million in added DARPA research funding for its New Science Team’s Joint University Microelectronics Program (JUMP). This program will fund 24 additional research projects spanning 14 unique U.S. universities. The new projects will be integrated into JUMP’s six existing research centers. The New Science Team will continue to distribute funds over its five-year plan, and industrial sponsors are welcome to join to further accentuate those plans.
The funding awards have been given to 27 faculty to focus on technical areas including atomic layer deposition, novel ferroelectric and spintronic materials and devices, 3D and heterogeneous integration, thermal management solutions, architectures for machine learning and statistical computing, memory abstractions, reconfigurable RF frontends, mmWave to THz arrays, and systems for communications and sensing.
“The goal of the NST project is not only to extend the viability of Moore’s Law economics through 2030, but also to change the research paradigm to one of co-optimization across the design hierarchy stack through multi-disciplinary teams,” said Ken Hansen, President and CEO of SRC.
The JUMP program, a consortium consisting of 11 industrial participants and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is one of two complementary research programs for the New Science Team project—a five-year, greater than $300 million SRC initiative launched this January. JUMP and its six thematic centers will advance a new wave of fundamental research focused on the high-performance, energy-efficient microelectronics for communications, computing, and storage needs.
