Due to the severe economic downturn, we have a limited budget for distributions in 2009. Therefore, we are not soliciting any proposals for funding in 2009.
The Catalyst Foundation mission is to foster cross-disciplinary doctoral level university research in the scientific and engineering fields. The goal of the Foundation is to contribute to the fusion of scientific and engineering research. It fosters university level cross-disciplinary research projects in which at least one discipline is related to analog or mixed analog/digital integrated circuit design and analysis.
Prof. Michael Flynn and Prof. Daryl Kipket of University of Michigan have been awarded the 2008 Muli-Year Funding for their project entitled “Single-Chip Closed-Loop Deep-Brain Stimulation for Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease.”
Prof. Joel L. Dawson of MIT has been awarded 2008 Supplemental Funding for the project “Digitally-Assisted Architectures for Next Generation RF Transceivers.”