Yazicigil to Colead $6 Million Project to Advance Wireless Capabilities
The Northeast Microelectronics Coalition (NEMC) Hub has awarded a $6 million grant to a new project coled by a BU engineer that aims to spur the domestic development and manufacturing of cutting-edge semiconductor chips. Assistant Professor Rabia Yazicigil (ECE) will work with colleagues from academia and industry to pioneer what are known as universal data decoding chips to “develop US capabilities in wireless communications with applications spanning Internet of Things devices, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, and mobile communication,” reports the BU Center for Information & Systems Engineering’s communications specialist Margo Stanton (CAS’24, Pardee’24). The team hopes the chips will have ultralow energy consumption. Yazicigil is a faculty affiliate at the center and at the University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. The NEMC Hub is a regional research hub established through the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act and the grant has renewable funding for up to three years.