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Gilroy Vandentop, STARnet Executive Director

STARnet is a collaborative network of stellar research centers finding paths around the fundamental physical limits threatening the long-term growth of the microelectronics industry.

Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces and Novel Architectures

Spin-based memory and computation has the potential to overcome the power, performance and architectural constraints of conventional CMOS-based devices, but several barriers remain. CSPIN overcomes these barriers by assembling experts in magnetic materials, spin transport, novel spin-transport materials, spintronic devices, circuits and novel architectures.  » More

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Center for Low Energy Systems Technology

LEAST is investigating the physics of new materials and devices toward disruptive advances in integrated circuits and systems. LEAST focuses on field-controlled, low-voltage, steep-subthreshold devices and the exploration of solid-state phenomena to extend device performance to fundamental limits beyond heat removal. In particular, it is exploring the promise of the TFET transistor, a leading option for a post-CMOS switch.  » More

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Center for Future Architectures Research

C-FAR is focused on computer systems architectures for the transitional 2020s, as the benefits of CMOS scaling slow, and we wait for post-CMOS devices to reach full production. Continued scalability will depend on successful innovation of application-driven architectures leveraging emerging circuit fabrics such as 3D interconnect, novel memories and programmable logic. Meanwhile, the growth of "big data" across all platforms (sensor, mobile and server) and markets (commercial and defense) will cause performance and security to emerge as first-class architectural concerns. » More

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Systems On Nanoscale Information fabriCs

SONIC is addressing challenges associated with the design of intelligent embedded systems on nanoscale CMOS and beyond CMOS device fabrics. Intelligence comes at the expense of energy while nanoscale fabrics introduce intrinsically statistical behavior. Thus, achieving energy efficiency and robustness in the nanoscale era is a formidable challenge for future semiconductor electronic systems. In order to address these challenges, SONIC proposes a radical shift from the deterministic model of von Neumann style computing to a Shannon and neuro-inspired information processing paradigm, where the uncertainty induced by nanoscale statistics is embraced from systems and applications to devices.  » More

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TerraSwarm Research Center

TerraSwarm is addressing the huge potential—and associated risks—of pervasive integration of smart, networked sensors and actuators into our connected world. The center aims to enable the simple, reliable, and secure deployment of a multiplicity of advanced distributed sense and control applications on shared, massively distributed, heterogeneous, and mostly uncoordinated platforms through an open and universal systems architecture. » More

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Function Accelerated nanoMaterial Engineering Center

FAME aims to design and create nonconventional materials and nanostructures with unique correlated quantum properties, including semiconductors, dielectrics, and metallic materials, in order to accelerate innovations in analog, logic and memory devices for revolutionary impact on the semiconductor and defense industries. » More

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STARnet Metrics

  1. This Year

    1 Patents Granted
  2. Last Year

    1 Patents Granted
  3. Since Inception

    6 Contracts
    32 Projects
    51 Universities
    1,204 Research Scholars
    213 Faculty Researchers
    156 Liaisons
    8,860 Research Data
    180 Patent Applications
    90 Patents Granted
Updated: 23-May-2024, 12:05 a.m. ET

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