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Research Facilities<\/p>

Quality – Timely – Relevant <\/p>

Our capabilities include photonic and electronic chip test, interconnect performance validation, thermal chip test solutions, rapid prototyping, free space optics, AI machine\/deep\/Hebbian- learning frameworks, and computational capabilities, including UF’s HiPerGator<\/a> – the #`1 academic supercomputer in the U.S. and #33 on the Top500 green list via a NVIDIA partnership<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Photonic & Electronic Chip Test<\/h2>

–Quality Data, Rapid Acquisition, Real-time Digital Twining<\/strong><\/em> –

<\/strong><\/em>Quality Data, Rapid Acquisition, Real-time Digital Twining. Equipment inquire Maple Leaf Photonics automated probe station, DR & RF probes, Keysight DSA and optical\/electrical ‘heads’ (67 & 85GHz), OSA, Network Analyzer, Arbitrary Wavefunction Generator (AWG) for OOK PAM4\/8\/16 QAM modulation formats, tunable and sweepable lasers (O&C-bands), and more. <\/p><\/span><\/div><\/div>

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Thermal Chip Test<\/h2>

– Readying Chips For Deployment – <\/strong><\/em>

Resilient & Environmental Chip Performance Validation. Humidity solutions with IMG partnership. Advanced packaged chip interface and delimitation test. Thermal shock test, and cryogenic-to-hot environmental chip and package test.
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Rapid Prototyping<\/h2>

– Chip Packages – Board & Modules – AI Interfaces –<\/strong><\/em>

2D Material Printer to accurate place 2D materials onto substrates, PCB engineering, Machine Learning & AI ASIC validation, Digital and Mixed Signal I\/O. <\/p><\/span><\/div><\/div>

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Free Space Optics<\/h2>

– Harnessing the power of Light – <\/em><\/strong>

Spacial Light Modulators (SLM) at VIS & NIR, massively parallel 4F Fourier optical convolution accelerator (DMD-based), Optical Angular Momentum (OAM) for topologically protected optical interconnect links (e.g. underwater communication), and more.<\/p><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n\n\n

AI & Computing <\/h2>

– Hyperscalers – AI Acceleration – Dataset Validation – <\/strong><\/em>

We perform AI machine\/deep\/Hebbian- learning, including emerging neuromorphic spiking network training, semiconductor fab process development and optimization.

This is includes both on our ASIC hardware chips (see above) but also digital twinned via frameworks, and computational capabilities, including UF’s HiPerGator<\/a> – the #`1 academic supercomputer in the U.S. and #33 on the GREEN500 list<\/a> via a NVIDIA partnership<\/a>.

We also ML validate a variety of datasets including for image processing, satellite data, RF signals and more using LLM, DL, and RL methods. <\/p><\/span><\/div><\/div>

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