Beyond Scaling - Access
Abstract
The Beyond Scaling - Access program will demonstrate the design and fabrication of advanced electronics through collaborations with leading industry players. It accomplishes complementary goals of working in a commercial environment for innovation beyond-SOTA to develop electronics for military capabilities, while simultaneously strengthening our domestic ecosystem and ensuring that the DoD has enduring access to SOTA technologies. Although the United States has led the development of advanced electronics since its inception and is home to three of the five leading-edge silicon foundries, recent investments by foreign competitors are threatening this leadership. Additionally, the fabrication cost of next generation microelectronics has increased at an alarming rate. While the commercial sector is able to spread these costs over a large volume of products, the low volumes used by the DoD has led to a cost barrier in meeting its future technology needs. This program will forge forward-looking collaborations among the commercial electronics community, defense industrial base, university researchers, and the DoD. Activities include establishing design capabilities for advanced digital logic in SOTA foundries, developing new architectures for field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) using commercial manufacturing flows, and lowering the technical hurdles for ubiquitous heterogeneous integration by revolutionizing back end compound semiconductor processes. Technologies from this program are intended for transition to the Services.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 8db0b4c0b4841a765dc5035070da5412