NetSE: Cross-domain Design Tools for Sensor Network and Architecture

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。 本项目将开发一个名为Sunshine的新工具，以有效地支持传感器网络（sensornet）硬件和软件的联合评估和设计。 智力优势：传感器网络成功的一个关键障碍是许多重要应用程序的软件实现非常缓慢和不切实际。另一方面，专门的硬件实现可以在能量方面以及性能方面以数量级优于等效的软件实现。因此，传感器网络应用的联合软件和硬件设计是一个非常有吸引力的，但尚未开发的方法。这个项目的目标是开发一个有效的工具，命名为阳光，以支持这种协同设计。这个项目可能会从根本上改变sensornet研究的硬件和软件社区之间的关系。 这些社区可以使用Sunshine高效地交换相互需求，并传播彼此领域的最新技术进步。 这种进化的变化将大大提高传感器网络技术的最新水平。 通过Sunshine的跨领域设计环境，可以创建和测试当前设计中未开发的新型硬件架构和平台。更广泛的影响：作为一个有价值的教育工具，阳光还将促进研究和教育在PI的机构和利益课程在其他机构的持续整合。Sunshine可以作为网络和嵌入式系统工程的实验室实验和课程项目的基础。Sunshine还为创新的跨领域教育提供了机会。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will develop a novel tool, named Sunshine, to effectively support joint evaluation and design of sensor network (sensornet) hardware and software. Intellectual Merit: A critical roadblock to the success of sensornets is the prohibitively slow and energy-wise impractical software implementations of many important applications. On the other hand, specialized hardware implementation can outperform, energy-wise as well as performance-wise, equivalent software implementations by orders of magnitude. Hence, the joint software-and-hardware design of sensornet applications is a very appealing, yet unexplored, approach. The objective of this project is to develop an effective tool, named Sunshine, to support such codesign. This project may fundamentally transform the relationship between the hardware and software communities of sensornet research. These communities can use Sunshine to efficiently exchange mutual requirements and spread the latest technology advances in each other's fields. Such evolutionary change will greatly improve the state-of-the-art in sensornet technology. Novel hardware architecture and platforms that are unexplored in current designs can be created and tested through Sunshine's cross-domain design environment. Broader Impact: Serving as a valuable education tool, Sunshine will also foster the continued integration of research and education at the PIs' institution and benefit curriculum at other institutions. Sunshine can serve as the foundation for lab experiments and course projects in networking and embedded system engineering. Sunshine also offers the opportunity for innovative cross-domain education.