DARPA has awarded a $15.5 million semiconductor research contract to Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation, Durham, North Carolina.
The contract is an option on the third year of the Focus Center Research Program – Semiconductor Technology Advanced Research Network (FCRP STARnet), according to a DARPA news release. The program consists of multi-university research centers working on microelectronics. The FCRP – STARnet University Focus Centers are:
■Center for Spintronic Material, Interfaces and Novel Architectures (C-SPIN) – University of Minnesota;
■Function Accelerated nanoMaterial Engineering (FAME) – University of California, Los Angeles;
■Center for Low Energy Systems Technology (LEAST) – University of Notre Dame;
■Center for Future Architectures Research (C-FAR) – University of Michigan;
■Systems On Nanoscale Information fabriCs (SONIC) Center – University of Illinois; and
■TerraSwarm Research Center (TSRC) – University of California, Berkeley.
