Designing electronics for extreme environments, such as cryogenic temperatures or intense radiation, can require years of specialized work across disconnected layers of materials, devices, circuits and architectures.
AXESS, led at ORNL by Jeffrey Vetter in partnership with Fermilab, will create an SI-driven, specs-to-silicon capability that links those layers, using experimental materials data, physics-based models and intelligent design agents to rapidly explore and validate complete hardware solutions. That capability could enable faster and more capable readout and control systems for quantum computers, fusion experiments, particle detectors, accelerators and other scientific instruments, shrinking the timeline from a new scientific idea to the specialized electronics needed to make an experiment possible.
