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Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communication (UNIC)
Document Type: Presolicitation Notice
Solicitation Number: BAA07-35
Posted Date: Apr 24, 2007
Original Response Date: Jun 07, 2007
Current Response Date: Jun 07, 2007
Original Archive Date: Apr 30, 2008
Current Archive Date: Apr 30, 2008
Classification Code: A -- Research & Development
Naics Code: 541710 -- Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
Description
DARPA is soliciting innovative research and development (R&D) proposals in the area of Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communications (UNIC) with the goal of demonstrating low power, high bandwidth, low latency intrachip photonic communication networks designed to enable chip multiprocessors with hundreds or thousands of compute cores to realize extremely high computational efficiency (actual performance). The proposer will be expected to select aggressive chip multiprocessor design drivers in a future technology node (~ 20 nm), and to design for them credible, high connectivity photonic networks that are non-blocking and have low message latencies, narrow latency distributions, high communication bandwidth (to accommodate all expected traffic) and other characteristics that minimize programming effort. Detailed analyses of network communication parameters and demonstration of system-level performance benefits for their chosen network designs are expected. The proposer will also present plans on how they will achieve the photonic device performance required for implementation of their photonic network designs. Proposers will also be expected to demonstrate functional intrachip photonic communication links incorporating all critical photonic and electronic components/technologies working together on a chip and demonstrate link performance that validates the photonic network designs and the expected system performance benefits.
Proposed UNIC R&D should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, circuits, and computing systems. Specifically excluded is R&D that primarily results in incremental or evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
DARPA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) No. 07-35, entitled Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communication (UNIC), is provided as an attachment to this solicitation notice and includes information on the specific areas of interest; the submission process; proposal formats; evaluation and selection/funding processes; as well as all other pertinent administrative and contractual information. The BAA may be obtained from the FedBizOpps website: http://www.fedbizopps.gov/, Grants.gov website: http://www.grants.gov/, World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.darpa.mil/mto (go to solicitation area) or by fax, electronic mail, or mail request to the administrative contact address given below. Proposals not meeting the format or following the submission instructions described in the BAA may not be reviewed.
PROPOSERS QUESTIONS
A Proposers Questions, website will be posted for BAA 07-35 on the DARPA, Microsystems Technology Office solicitations page (www.darpa.mil/baa/#eto). If you would like to have a question answered and posted on this site, please send your question to the following address: BAA07-35@darpa.mil.
Point of Contact
Jagdeep Shah, DARPA Program Manager,
Fax 703-696-2206
Michael Blackstone,
Contracting Officer,
Phone (571) 218-4804,
Fax (703) 696-2208,
Email
michael.blackstone@darpa.mil