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NSF and SRC to Fund Research to Create Failure-Resistant Systems and Circuits for Tomorrows Computing Applications
Leaders of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today announced 18 new projects funded through a joint initiative to address research challenges in the design of failure-resistant circuits and systems.
The three-year, $6 million collaborative program ...
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