SHF: Small: NEMS-Based Power Gating for Future Low Power Design

功耗是大大扩展计算在日常生活中的作用的主要障碍之一。虽然服务器群允许即时存储和检索信息，但公司仍在与高功率和冷却费用的成本和环境影响作斗争。在计算领域的另一端，研究人员设想通过将网络传感器部署到我们生活的方方面面，将计算与环境真正整合起来。然而，它们的功耗仍然是它们真正集成的主要障碍之一。在本提案中，pi主张使用NEMS开关来控制泄漏，以便将计算架构的低功耗设计提升到一个新的水平。考虑到推广新兴技术最困难的部分是将其与现有技术和设计流程相结合，pi将研究将NEMS开关与行业标准CMOS工艺流程相结合的所有重要方面。这种方法不仅允许最终的商业化，而且为其他研究人员调查和改进这种方法提供了一个经济的平台。拟议的工作还包括开发一个教育模块，专门为高中/大一学生介绍绿色计算的概念。该模块的目标是向学生展示工程对社会的好处，并希望吸引他们进入计算机工程学科。

Power consumption is one of the primary roadblocks to greatly expanding the role of computing in everyday life. While server farms allow for instantaneous storing and retrieval of information, companies struggle with the cost and environmental impact of high power and cooling bills. On the other side of computing spectrum, researchers have envisioned true integration of computing with the environment by deploying networked sensors into all aspects of our lives. However, their power consumption remains one of the major impediments for their true integration. In this proposal the PIs advocate the use of NEMS switches to control leakage in order to advance the low-power design of computing architectures to the next level. Considering the most difficult part of promoting emerging technologies is integrating them with entrenched technologies and design flows, the PIs will investigate all of the important aspects of incorporating NEMS switches with the industry-standard CMOS process flow. This approach not only allows for eventual commercialization, but also provides an economical platform for other researchers to investigate and refine this approach. The proposed work also includes development of an educational module that will introduce the concepts of green computing specifically for a high school/freshman audience. The goal of the module is to present the benefits of engineering to the society to students with the hope of attracting them to the computer engineering discipline.