Intelligent Design of Electronic Artifacts (IDEA)
Abstract
The Intelligent Design of Electronic Artifacts (IDEA) program aims to develop intelligent, free, and open-source development tools and building blocks to provide custom integrated circuits (IC) for mission critical DoD systems. Currently, leading-edge IC development requires large teams of domain experts and costs up to $100M per IC design. These hurdles limit DoD s ability to rapidly access high-performance electronic components and encourage the use of sub-optimal or insecure alternatives. IDEA would reduce the cost and expertise barriers to IC design by leveraging 50 years of chip design knowledge, ongoing advances in machine intelligence, and the incredible growth in public, cloud-based computational resources. The program would develop evolvable, open-source IC design tools and IC building block libraries that can be stored in publicly available cloud infrastructure. This would enable small teams of system and algorithm experts without chip design experience to develop custom ICs at a very low cost and quickly implement these designs in hardware. IDEA would therefore facilitate the development of critical, custom components for the vast majority of DoD missions, including for imaging, communication, electronic warfare, radar, and security applications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 867966155db0d17de6377e42f67fc934
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