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.

研究视觉是在未来的半导体技术的能力上创造一个突破 - 开发设备，电路，系统，过程，过程，设计流和工具，并在一个新颖的电子系统中芯片（EPSOC）的新颖平台中，在高级CMOS型铸造过程中，以计算计算和敏感性的关键应用程序。半导体技术正在进入一个新时代，因为晶体管缩放率提供了过去50年的进度减慢。电子光（EP）集成提供了一条途径，可以通过功能强大的新系统（SOC）革新这些功能，用于今天的光学输入/输出（I/O），通过未来的无线电/mm-wave信号处理，用于5G/6G无线的无线，光检测和范围（LIDAR）的成像（lon）成像（lon）和新的paradigs（a）的摄影（lon）成像（lon）的范围（a）超导电子和量子计算。这种创新的道路需要一种收敛的跨学科共同设计方法，以缠绕光子设计师，电子电路/系统设计师，过程工程师和系统/应用专家的技能。 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 sensor and control,分子和超声电子光子传感器系统对芯片的系统，MM-WAVE模拟光子链路的设计以及第一个低温光链路的演示。这项工作的目的是建立一个有效的共同设计团队与应用领域专家，以进一步开发体系结构和系统对设备建模方法，并沿着计算，交流和传感的三个关键研究向量进行共同设计，以建立一个研究和教育基础，以为未来的中心规模的共同设计研究工作。此外，这些EPSOC概念将通过团队以前的工作启用的新的，光子优化的高量电子光学过程（45NM SPCLO SOI CMO）开发。从长远来看，这项工作将创建一个EPSOCS平台，该平台利用最先进的CMOS Foundry技术。它将为低成本，快速创新和精致EPSOC的框架（块库，工具，模型和设计方法）开发一个框架（块库，工具，模型和设计方法）。它还将使EPSOC技术民主化，使得更广泛的研究，工业甚至教育社区都可以访问它（例如，通过开源设计工具和生成器库来使EPSOC CHIP设计成为可能的EPSOC芯片设计）。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来评估Criteria Criteria的智力和广泛影响。