International Center on Design for Nanotechnologies

国际纳米技术设计中心

• 批准号: 0530261
• 负责人: Jason Cong
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-10-01 至 2009-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0530261&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Center; Design; Nanotechnologies

Intellectual MeritThe proposed research addresses the design issues for nanotechnologies, with a special focus on the architectural level and the integration level. The research tasks include investigation and development of efficient design methodologies, algorithms, and microarchitectures for the emerging nanotechnologies, including both nano-CMOS and technology candidates beyond CMOS. We plan to use nano-FPGA (nano-Field Programmable Gate Assembly) as an architecture/platform driver to explore various issues in nanotechnology designs. The regularity and reconfigurability makes nano-FPGA an ideal candidate to support the reliability and complexity requirements of designs in nanotechnologies. Based on this driver, we will explore novel techniques to achieve highly reliable and error-resilient designs to overcome likely defects and non-deterministic behavior of new nanodevices. The outcome of this research project will be innovative design methodologies, tools, and algorithms that enable efficient and economic design solutions for nanotechnologies as soon as they become available and practical. Broader ImpactThe National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) has identified nanoelectronics, one of the next generation of information technology devices, as one of nine "Grand Challenge" areas because of the potentially significant economic and societal impact of innovations in this area. While most innovations in nanotechnology at this stage are primarily at the level of individual devices, it is at the systems level where the true potential of nanotechnology can be realized. The rather unique focus of this project on design methodologies and systems-level issues, such as design of architectures, robustness, and error-resilience, will help accelerate the development of viable nanoelectronic systems. On the other hand, at this early stage, nanotechnology research requires extensive investment and is truly pre-competitive in nature, which makes it an ideal candidate for international collaboration so that we can leverage the global investment and coordinate research efforts in this area. Therefore, we will explore international collaboration opportunities with researchers and educators from leading universities in Taiwan, and China in this target area. In addition to research collaboration, we will initiate an educational program that will enable U.S. students and young researchers to visit the participating countries for workshops, joint research, student exchanges, etc. It will help them appreciate the culture, technology, and economic development of these regions, thus developing the scientific talents and social interaction skills required of future leaders with international vision and experience.

智力价值拟议的研究针对纳米技术的设计问题，特别关注体系结构层面和集成层面。研究任务包括为新兴的纳米技术研究和开发高效的设计方法、算法和微体系结构，包括纳米CMOS和超越CMOS的候选技术。我们计划使用纳米现场可编程门组件(Nano-field Programming Gate Assembly)作为架构/平台驱动程序，以探索纳米技术设计中的各种问题。这种规则性和可重构性使纳米FPGA成为支持纳米技术中设计的可靠性和复杂性要求的理想候选者。基于这一驱动因素，我们将探索实现高可靠性和容错性设计的新技术，以克服新纳米设备可能存在的缺陷和不确定性行为。这一研究项目的成果将是创新的设计方法、工具和算法，一旦纳米技术可用和实用，这些方法、工具和算法就能实现高效和经济的设计解决方案。更广泛的影响国家纳米技术倡议(NNI)已将下一代信息技术设备之一的纳米电子学确定为九个“重大挑战”领域之一，因为这一领域的创新可能产生重大的经济和社会影响。虽然现阶段纳米技术的大多数创新主要是在单个设备的层面上进行的，但只有在系统层面上才能实现纳米技术的真正潜力。该项目对设计方法和系统级问题的相当独特的关注，如架构设计、健壮性和容错能力，将有助于加速可行的纳米电子系统的开发。另一方面，在这个早期阶段，纳米技术研究需要广泛的投资，而且具有真正的预竞争性，这使其成为国际合作的理想人选，以便我们能够利用全球投资和协调这一领域的研究工作。因此，我们将探索与台湾顶尖大学的研究人员和教育工作者以及中国在这一目标领域的国际合作机会。除了研究合作，我们还将启动一个教育项目，使美国学生和年轻研究人员能够访问参与国进行研讨会、联合研究、学生交流等。这将帮助他们了解这些地区的文化、技术和经济发展，从而培养具有国际视野和经验的未来领导者所需的科学人才和社交技能。