Electrical and Computer Engineering Professors S. J. Ben Yoo\nand Q. Jane Gu were announced as members of the Joint University\nMicroelectronics Program 2.0, or JUMP 2.0, an effort led by a collaboration\nbetween the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Semiconductor\nResearch Corporation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seven United States university research centers have been\nestablished with the goal of accelerating advances in information and\ncommunications technologies. JUMP 2.0 will encourage interdisciplinary teams of\nacademics to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research spanning seven critical\ntechnology themes, per DARPA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yoo is a co-principal investigator in the $32.7 million,\nPennsylvania State-led Center\nfor Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronics Systems<\/a>, or CHIMES. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The focus of CHIMES is to advance heterogeneous integration, the efficient and effective integration and packaging of semiconductor devices, chips, and other components, said Yoo, who will focus on 3D electronic-photonic integration, photonic-electronic-interposers, and THz-RF-Photonic communications. Our new 3D heterogeneous integration of nanoscale photonics and electronics can bring orders of magnitude improvements in energy efficiency and throughput while enabling new capabilities not available before, Yoo added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Gu is a co-principal investigator in the $28.2 million,\nGeorgia Tech-led CogniSense:\nCenter on Cognitive Multispectral Sensors<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The focus of CogniSense is to develop cognitive multi-spectral and multi-modal sensors with advanced energy-efficient sensor hardware and feature extraction algorithms for high energy efficiency,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gu, who is pursuing ultra-high resolution sub-THz\/THz passive imaging systems with significantly enhanced range and time responses. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Inspired by biology, our new sensor system, based on advanced multi-modal sensors and feature extraction algorithms, will use attention to always extract the most useful information from the environment with as little data processing and energy as possible, Gu added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n DARPA describes JUMP 2.0 as a critical part of its Electronics Resurgence Initiative<\/a> and seeks to significantly improve performance, efficiency, and capabilities across a range of electronics systems. JUMP 2.0 builds off an earlier iteration of another SRC-led collaboration that was formed in 2018 to support university research centers focused on keeping the United States at the forefront of microelectronics innovation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n *BUTTON*: Read the Full Press Release from DARPA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Image Credits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"