The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that it has awarded approximately $27 million for a USC-led Microelectronics Commons project. The university will lead a coalition of research and industry organizations with the power to accelerate the development and manufacturing of microelectronics in the United States. The coalition is led by researchers at ISI and the USC Viterbi Ming Hsieh Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering. The partner institutions within higher education are Caltech; Morgan State University in Baltimore; North Carolina A&T State University; Pasadena City College; University of California, Irvine; UCLA; University of California, Riverside; University of California, San Diego; and University of California, Santa Barbara. READ MORE
Purdue hosted the "Creating a Collaborative Approach to CHIPS Act Objectives and Innovation” event on November 3, 2023 where thought leaders from academia, industry, and government gathered to explore enhancing US competitiveness in the semiconductor sector through a broad and coordinated national capabilities network. A major goal of the workshop was to assess the current state of the art and requirements for a national infrastructure with cross-cutting capabilities to help realize the transformative objectives of the CHIPS Act. The CAP Center's very own Dr. Kevin Kornegay was an invited panelist for the "Developing a Domestic Workforce to Fuel Semiconductor Industry Resurgence" session. READ MORE HERE
The CAP Center has partnered with SCALE led by Purdue University, funded by the Department of Defense, and managed by NSWC Crane. SCALE facilitates a different approach to training highly-skilled U.S. microelectronics engineers, hardware designers, and manufacturing experts, ensuring U.S. leadership in this important area. READ MORE
NSA and Minority Serving Institutions_ Improving Vehicle Cybersecurity with Morgan State University
Hello, We are recruiting students interested in Secure Embedded Systems at the BS (rising Junior), MS, and Ph.D. levels. We gave NSF CyberCorp scholarships available for students for the Fall 2023 term. All interested parties, please direct your inquiries to Dr. Kevin Kornegay @ Dr. Kevin Kornegay.
From left to right: Dr. Edmund Smith (Sandia National Labs), Dr. Marcial Tientu (CAP Center), Dr. Paige Harvey (NSA), and Dr. Sean Richardson (Verizon).
Dr. Onyema Osuagwu, Associate Professor, on earning tenure in the ECE Department.
The SFFP offers fellowships to university faculty to conduct research at one of the Air Force research facilities in the summer. The objectives of the Summer Faculty Fellowship Program are to: 1. stimulate professional relationships among SFFP fellows and the scientists and engineers in AFRL Technical Directorates and other Air Force research facilities; 2. elevate the awareness in the U.S. academic community of Air Force research needs and foster continued research at SFFP fellows' institutions; and 3. provide the faculty opportunities to perform high-quality research at AFRL Technical Directorates and other Air Force research facilities. SFFP fellows conduct research in collaboration with Air Force researchers for a continuous summer period of eight to twelve weeks at the Technical Directorates of the Air Force Research Laboratory, the US Air Force Academy, or the Air Force Institute of Technology. A final report is required at the completion of the summer appointment.
Abstract: Project Connected Home over IP, known as Matter, a unifying standard for the smart home, will begin formal device certification in late 2022. The standard will prioritize connectivity using short-range wireless communication protocols such as Wi-Fi, Thread, and Ethernet. The standard will also include emerging technologies such as Blockchain for device certification and security. In this paper, we rely on the Matter protocol to solve the long-standing heterogeneity problem in smart homes. This work presents a hardware Testbed built using development kits, as there is currently very few devices supporting Matter protocol. In addition, it presents a network architecture that automates smart homes to cloud services. The work is a simple and cheap way of developing a Testbed for automating smart homes that uses Matter protocol. The architecture lays the foundation for exploring security and privacy issues, data collection analysis, and data provenance in a smart home ecosystem built on Matter protocol. W. Zegeye, A. Jemal and K. Kornegay, "Connected Smart Home over Matter Protocol," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2023, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ICCE56470.2023.10043520. Connected_Smart_Home_over_Matter_Protocol
Scalable Asymmetric Lifecycle Engagement (SCALE) is the preeminent U.S. program for semiconductor workforce development in the defense sector. Led by Purdue University, funded by the Department of Defense and managed by NSWC Crane, SCALE facilitates a different approach to training highly-skilled U.S. microelectronics engineers, hardware designers, and manufacturing experts, ensuring U.S. leadership in this important area. The CAP focus technology areas are system-on-chip and embedded systems/AI.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has appointed 16 experts for the new Internet of Things Advisory Board (IoTAB), to advise the Internet of Things Federal Working Group. The advisory board includes a wide range of stakeholders outside of the federal government with expertise relating to the Internet of Things (IoT). The newly appointed members include our very own Dr. Kevin Kornegay. READ MORE
The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that it has awarded approximately $27 million for a USC-led Microelectronics Commons project. The university will lead a coalition of research and industry organizations with the power to accelerate the development and manufacturing of microelectronics in the United States. The coalition is led by researchers at ISI and the USC Viterbi Ming Hsieh Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering. The partner institutions within higher education are Caltech; Morgan State University in Baltimore; North Carolina A&T State University; Pasadena City College; University of California, Irvine; UCLA; University of California, Riverside; University of California, San Diego; and University of California, Santa Barbara. READ MORE
Purdue hosted the "Creating a Collaborative Approach to CHIPS Act Objectives and Innovation” event on November 3, 2023 where thought leaders from academia, industry, and government gathered to explore enhancing US competitiveness in the semiconductor sector through a broad and coordinated national capabilities network. A major goal of the workshop was to assess the current state of the art and requirements for a national infrastructure with cross-cutting capabilities to help realize the transformative objectives of the CHIPS Act. The CAP Center's very own Dr. Kevin Kornegay was an invited panelist for the "Developing a Domestic Workforce to Fuel Semiconductor Industry Resurgence" session. READ MORE HERE
The CAP Center has partnered with SCALE led by Purdue University, funded by the Department of Defense, and managed by NSWC Crane. SCALE facilitates a different approach to training highly-skilled U.S. microelectronics engineers, hardware designers, and manufacturing experts, ensuring U.S. leadership in this important area. READ MORE
NSA and Minority Serving Institutions_ Improving Vehicle Cybersecurity with Morgan State University
Hello, We are recruiting students interested in Secure Embedded Systems at the BS (rising Junior), MS, and Ph.D. levels. We gave NSF CyberCorp scholarships available for students for the Fall 2023 term. All interested parties, please direct your inquiries to Dr. Kevin Kornegay @ Dr. Kevin Kornegay.
From left to right: Dr. Edmund Smith (Sandia National Labs), Dr. Marcial Tientu (CAP Center), Dr. Paige Harvey (NSA), and Dr. Sean Richardson (Verizon).
Dr. Onyema Osuagwu, Associate Professor, on earning tenure in the ECE Department.
The SFFP offers fellowships to university faculty to conduct research at one of the Air Force research facilities in the summer. The objectives of the Summer Faculty Fellowship Program are to: 1. stimulate professional relationships among SFFP fellows and the scientists and engineers in AFRL Technical Directorates and other Air Force research facilities; 2. elevate the awareness in the U.S. academic community of Air Force research needs and foster continued research at SFFP fellows' institutions; and 3. provide the faculty opportunities to perform high-quality research at AFRL Technical Directorates and other Air Force research facilities. SFFP fellows conduct research in collaboration with Air Force researchers for a continuous summer period of eight to twelve weeks at the Technical Directorates of the Air Force Research Laboratory, the US Air Force Academy, or the Air Force Institute of Technology. A final report is required at the completion of the summer appointment.
Abstract: Project Connected Home over IP, known as Matter, a unifying standard for the smart home, will begin formal device certification in late 2022. The standard will prioritize connectivity using short-range wireless communication protocols such as Wi-Fi, Thread, and Ethernet. The standard will also include emerging technologies such as Blockchain for device certification and security. In this paper, we rely on the Matter protocol to solve the long-standing heterogeneity problem in smart homes. This work presents a hardware Testbed built using development kits, as there is currently very few devices supporting Matter protocol. In addition, it presents a network architecture that automates smart homes to cloud services. The work is a simple and cheap way of developing a Testbed for automating smart homes that uses Matter protocol. The architecture lays the foundation for exploring security and privacy issues, data collection analysis, and data provenance in a smart home ecosystem built on Matter protocol. W. Zegeye, A. Jemal and K. Kornegay, "Connected Smart Home over Matter Protocol," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2023, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ICCE56470.2023.10043520. Connected_Smart_Home_over_Matter_Protocol
Scalable Asymmetric Lifecycle Engagement (SCALE) is the preeminent U.S. program for semiconductor workforce development in the defense sector. Led by Purdue University, funded by the Department of Defense and managed by NSWC Crane, SCALE facilitates a different approach to training highly-skilled U.S. microelectronics engineers, hardware designers, and manufacturing experts, ensuring U.S. leadership in this important area. The CAP focus technology areas are system-on-chip and embedded systems/AI.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has appointed 16 experts for the new Internet of Things Advisory Board (IoTAB), to advise the Internet of Things Federal Working Group. The advisory board includes a wide range of stakeholders outside of the federal government with expertise relating to the Internet of Things (IoT). The newly appointed members include our very own Dr. Kevin Kornegay. READ MORE