Beyond Scaling - Architectures and Designs
Abstract
The Beyond Scaling - Architectures and Designs program will significantly increase the ease with which DoD can design, deliver, and eventually upgrade critical, customized electronics hardware. As Moore's Law slows and the nation loses the benefit of free, exponential improvements in electronics cost, speed, and power derived from silicon scaling, the DoD will need to maximize the benefits of available silicon technologies by using design tools that enable circuit specialization. This program will develop and demonstrate the tools required for rapidly designing and deploying specialized circuits. Research efforts will explore technologies and techniques such as new domain-specific circuit architectures; co-design of electronics hardware and software; tight integration of chip-scale processing blocks and artificial intelligence-enabled processing controllers; and open-source circuit designs. Further research will also develop tools to create exact representations of outdated hardware in the field and to rapidly, cheaply, and safely upgrade these systems with next-generation electronics. Two fundamental goals of this program include (1) reduce the barrier to entry for Complex System on a Chip (SoC) design and (2) manage the utilization of the specialized hardware by enabling the writing of a common code base on top of the customized hardware. Advances under this program will demonstrate a new DoD capability to create specialized hardware and provide benefits by improving electronics systems that do not depend on continued rapid improvements in silicon transistors. Basic research for this program is funded within PE 0601101E, Project ES-02.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- d5aeae24a0bf09da561de1124a959d56
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