ARIES DESIGN AUTOMATION, LLC
Fault-tolerant RISC-V processor core with reconfigurable processing elements and formal verification tool flow for microprocessor correctness and cybersecurity
- Sector
- Semiconductors
- Headquarters
- Chicago, IL
- Total capital
- $3.9M
- Federal grants
- $1.1M
- 2 awards · 2021–2022
- Rank in peer group#56 of 68
- Private capital raised
- None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
- Federal contracts
- $2.7M
- 10 awards · NASA, Commerce
- Rank in Semiconductors#84 of 707
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Design and Formal Verification of a Fault-Tolerant RISC-V Processor Core Augmented to Accelerate Image and Science Data Processing$150K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Design and Formal Verification of a RISC-V DSP for Space Communication$1M
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf In The Proposed Project, We Will Formally Verify The Correctness Of The Interaction Between A Real-time Operating System (rtos) And User Processes Under Various Operating Scenarios, Such As Multitasking, Interrupt Handling, User And Kernel Mode Switching. The Formal Verification Will Be Done Assuming Execution On The Powerpc 750 Architecture That Is Implemented In The Radiation-hardened RAD750 Flight-control Computers Utilized In Many NASA Space Missions, And Are Planned To Be Used$125K
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf We Will Develop An Efficient Graphics Processing Unit (gpu) Based Parallel Binary Decision Diagram (bdd) Software Package, And Will Also Combine It With Our Gpu-based Parallel Sat Solver That We Are Currently Developing In A NASA SBIR Phase II Project In Order To Solve Much Larger And More Complex Boolean Formulas From Formal Verification Than Possible With Either Method Alone. Bdds Are A Data Structure That Satisfies Some Simple Restrictions, Resulting In A Unique Representation O$125K
- Federal contractNASA · We Will Develop A Prototype Of A Gpu-based Parallel Binary Decision Diagram (bdd) Software Package. Bdds Are A Data Structure That Satisfies Some Simple Restrictions, Resulting In A Unique Representation Of A Boolean Function Regardless Of Its Actual Implementation. This Property Of Bdds Allows The Efficient Solution Of Many Problems. The Proposed Tool Will Exploit Multi-core Cpus And The Thousands Of Stream Cores In The Latest Graphics Processors (gpus) , Which Were Made Accessible To Programme$125K
- Federal contractCommerce · SBIR FY11$90K
- Federal contractNASA · We Will Implement An Environment For Design, Formal Verification, Compilation Of Code, And Performance And Power Evaluation Of Systems On A Chip (socs) Consisting Of Heterogeneous Processor Cores That Can Be Single-issue Pipelined, Superscalar, Or Vliw, And Are Binary-code Compatible With Any Existing Instruction Set Architecture (isa). Particularly, We Will Ensure Binary-code Compatibility With The Powerpc 750 Isa, Which Is Used In The Radiation-hardened RAD750 Flight-control Computer That Is U$600K
Show 5 earlier federal awards
- Federal contractNASA · The Hundreds Of Stream Cores In The Latest Graphics Processors (gpus), And The Possibility To Execute Non-graphics Computations On Them, Open Unprecedented Levels Of Parallelism At A Very Low Cost. In The Last 6 Years, Gpus Had An Increasing Performance Advantage Of An Order Of Magnitude Relative To X86 Cpus. Furthermore, This Performance Advantage Will Continue To Increase In The Next 20 Years Because Of The Scalability Of The Chip Manufacturing Processes. The Goal Of This Project Is To Efficie$600K
- Federal contractNASA · We Will Design And Formally Verify A Vliw Processor That Is Radiation-hardened, And Where The Vliw Instructions Consist Of Predicated Risc Instructions From The Powerpc 750 Instruction Set Architecture (isa). The Powerpc 750 Isa Is Used In The Radiation-hardened RAD750 Flight-control Computer That Is Utilized In Many NASA Space Missions, Including Deep Impact, The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, The Mars Rovers, And Is Planned To Be Used In The Crew Exploration Vehicle (cev). The Vliw Processor Wil$100K
- Federal contractNASA · Efficient Techniques For Formal Verification Of Powerpc 750 Executables We Will Develop An Efficient Tool For Formal Verification Of Powerpc 750 Executables. The Powerpc 750 Architecture Is Used In The Radiation-hardened RAD750 Flight-control Computers That Are Utilized In Many Space Missions. The Resulting Tool Will Be Capable Of Formally Checking: 1) The Equivalence Of Two Instruction Sequences; And 2) Properties Of A Given Instruction Sequence. The Tool Will Automatically Introduce Symbolic S$750K
- Federal contractNASA · An Efficient Parallel Sat Solver Exploiting Multi-core Environments The Hundreds Of Stream Cores In The Latest Graphics Processors (gpus), And The Possibility To Execute Non-graphics Computations On Them, Open Unprecedented Levels Of Parallelism At A Very Low Cost. We Will Investigate Ways To Efficiently Exploit This Parallelism In Order To Accelerate The Execution Of A Boolean Satisfiability (sat) Solver. Sat Has A Wide Range Of Applications, Including Formal Verification And Testing Of Softw$100K
- Federal contractNASA · Efficient Techniques For Formal Verification Of Powerpc 750 Executables$100K
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Sources
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