FuSe-TG: Electronic-Photonic Systems-on-Chip for Computation, Communication and Sensing

FuSe-TG：用于计算、通信和传感的电子光子片上系统

• 批准号: 2235466
• 负责人: Vladimir Stojanovic
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2235466&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FuSe; TG; Electronic; Photonic; Systems

The research vision is to create a breakthrough in the capability of future semiconductor technologies - to develop devices, circuits, systems, process, design flow and tools, and train students, in a novel platform for electronic-photonic systems-on-chip (EPSoCs) in advanced CMOS foundry processes, addressing a range of key applications in computing, communication and sensing. Semiconductor technology is entering a new age as the transistor scaling that has provided the past 50 years of progress slows down. Electronic-photonic (EP) integration offers a path to revolutionizing these capabilities via powerful new systems-on-chip (SoCs) for applications from optical input/output (I/O) today, through future radio frequency/mm-wave signal processing for 5G/6G wireless, light detection and ranging (lidar) imaging, and new paradigms for computing like artificial intelligence (AI) scale-out fabrics, photonics-interfaced superconducting electronics, and quantum computing. This path of innovation requires a convergent, interdisciplinary co-design approach intertwining the skills of photonics designers, electronic circuit/system designers, process engineers, and system/application experts. Researchers plan to utilize initial proof-of-concept developments to team with the domain and application experts and establish a base research and educational portfolio and a research team to shape the Center-scale Co-Design research effort.Monolithic electronics-photonics integration has been demonstrated by the members of the team - its use and advantage in classical optical interconnects, as well as the design of the first photon-pair source with integrated electronic sensing and control, molecular and ultrasound eletronic-photonic sensor systems-on-chip, a design of the mm-wave analog photonic link and a demonstration of the first cryo-photonic link. The goal in this work is to establish an effective co-design team with application domain experts to further develop the architectures and system-to-device modeling methodologies and co-design efforts along the three key research vectors in computation, communication and sensing, to establish a research and educational foundation for future Center-scale Co-Design research effort. Furthermore, these EPSoC concepts will be developed in a new, photonics-optimized high-volume electronic-photonic process (45nm SPCLO SOI CMOS) enabled by the team’s previous work. In the long-term, this work will create an EPSoCs platform that leverages state-of-the-art CMOS foundry technology. It will develop a framework (block libraries, tools, models and design methodologies) for low cost, rapid innovation and design of sophisticated EPSoCs. It will also democratize EPSoC technology making it accessible to a broader research, industrial and even educational community (e.g. making possible EPSoC chip design through open-source design tools and generator libraries).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

研究愿景是在未来的半导体技术的可倾斜度上创造一个突破性 - 开发设备，系统，系统，设计流和工具，并在一个新颖的电子系统平台上进行培训（EPSOCS） ）在高级CMOS铸造过程中，随着晶体管缩放的速度，一系列的计算，通信和传感应用程序提供了50年的进度。这些功能可通过功能强大的新系统（SOC）（SOCS），用于从光学输入/输出（I/O）到未来的射频/MM-WAVE信号处理，用于5G/6G无线，光检测和范围（LIDAR）成像，以及用于人工（AI）尺度织物等范围的新范式，以及量子计算。 ，概念/应用专家。在经典的光学互连中，随着火灾集成电子感应和控制的设计，分子和超声ELETRONIC SYSTEMS在Chip of Chip ion的芯片上，这项工作的目标是建立有效的合作团队。沿着架构和系统对设备建模的甲基苯甲酸杆菌的专家，并沿着计算，交流和感应的关键研究，以建立和教育未来规模的研究工作（45nm spclo soi cmos）。由团队以前的工作启用。更广泛的研究，工业和教育社区标志工具和发电机库）。该奖项反映了NSF'Stututory Undation的智力优点和更广泛的影响评论标准。