CAREER: Nano-Centric Design Methodology for Nanoscale FPGAs

职业：纳米级 FPGA 的纳米中心设计方法

• 批准号: 0746608
• 负责人: Deming Chen
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0746608&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Nano; Centric; Design; Methodology

CCF - 0746608 PI name: Deming ChenTitle: CAREER: Nano-Centric Design Methodology for Nanoscale FPGAsInstitution: University of Illinois at Urbana ChampaignABSTRACT:Conventional top-down manufacturing faces serious challenges due to fundamental physical and economical constraints. Bottom-up approaches, in which integrated functional device structures are assembled from chemically synthesized nanoscale building blocks, such as carbon nanotubes (CNT) and nanowires, have the potential to revolutionize the fabrication of electronic systems for the future. Such nanosystems are by their nature very regular in structure and, therefore, suitable to implementation similar to Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Nanoelectronic circuits always have a certain percentage of defects as well as nanomaterial-specific variations over and above process variations introduced by lithography. Using simplified nanodevice assumptions and traditional scaled design flows will lead to suboptimal and impractical nanoFPGA designs and inaccurate system evaluation results. For nanotechnology to fulfill its promise, we need to understand and incorporate nano-specific design techniques, such as nanosystems modeling, statistical approaches and fault tolerant design, systematically from devices all the way up to systems. Motivated by this observation, this CAREER program proposes a fundamental, systematic and nano-centric design methodology for nanoscale FPGAs. The proposal includes the following four integrated design aspects: 1) Patterning: Designs novel and reliable architecture patterns, such as a new CNT-based one-time-configurable FPGA; 2) Modeling: Develops new device/wire/circuit models considering nanomaterial-specific variations, manufacturing limitations, and defects; 3) Synthesizing: Focuses on novel nano-centric synthesis techniques from the behavior level down to the physical design level; and 4) Evaluating: Builds a new parameterized nanoFPGA evaluation/exploration engine NanoEngine. The PI plans to develop a new interdisciplinary course incorporating nanomaterials fabrication, nanoelectronic principles, programmable ICs, and CAD. The PI has worked and will continue to reach out to K-12 students for micro/nano electronics education through short lecture series, Engineering Open House, and IEEE Teacher In-Service programs. He will also work with university organizations, such as Women in Engineering, to increase the participation of under-represented groups, especially female students. This project is especially compelling to undergraduate students, who are attracted to new technologies and may become the future leaders of nanoelectronic industry.

CCF-0746608 PI名称：陈德铭标题：职业：纳米级FP的以纳米为中心的设计方法机构：伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳香槟分校摘要：传统的自上而下的制造由于基本的物理和经济限制而面临严重挑战。自下而上的方法，即集成功能器件结构由化学合成的纳米级构建块组装而成，如碳纳米管(CNT)和纳米线，有可能为未来的电子系统制造带来革命性的变化。这种纳米系统本质上是非常规则的结构，因此适合于类似于现场可编程门阵列(FGA)的实现。纳米电子电路总是有一定比例的缺陷，以及纳米材料特有的变化，超过了光刻引入的工艺变化。使用简化的纳米器件假设和传统的规模化设计流程将导致次优和不切实际的纳米FPGA设计，并导致不准确的系统评估结果。为了实现纳米技术的承诺，我们需要理解和纳入纳米特有的设计技术，如纳米系统建模、统计方法和容错设计，从设备到系统都是系统的。在这一观察的激励下，这个职业计划提出了一种基本的、系统的、以纳米为中心的纳米级现场可编程门阵列设计方法。该建议包括以下四个集成设计方面：1)图案化：设计新颖且可靠的体系结构图案，例如新型的基于碳纳米管的一次性可配置的FPGA；2)建模：开发考虑纳米材料特定变化、制造限制和缺陷的新的器件/线/电路模型；3)综合：专注于从行为层面到物理设计层面的新颖的以纳米为中心的合成技术；以及4)评估：构建新的参数化NanFPGA评估/探索引擎纳米引擎。PI计划开发一门新的跨学科课程，包括纳米材料制造、纳米电子原理、可编程集成电路和CAD。PI一直致力于并将继续通过短期讲座系列、工程开放参观和IEEE在职教师计划接触到K-12学生的微纳电子学教育。他还将与大学组织合作，如工程中的女性，以增加代表不足的群体的参与，特别是女学生。这个项目对本科生特别有吸引力，他们对新技术很感兴趣，可能会成为纳米电子行业的未来领导者。