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

电力消耗是极大地扩大计算在日常生活中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，但公司仍在为高电费和冷却费用带来的成本和环境影响而苦苦挣扎。在计算领域的另一边，研究人员通过将联网传感器部署到我们生活的各个方面，设想了计算与环境的真正集成。然而，它们的电力消耗仍然是它们真正融合的主要障碍之一。在这项提案中，PI提倡使用NEMS开关来控制泄漏，以将计算体系结构的低功耗设计提升到下一个水平。考虑到推广新兴技术最困难的部分是将它们与根深蒂固的技术和设计流程相结合，绩效指标将调查将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，还为其他研究人员提供了一个经济的平台来研究和改进这种方法。拟议的工作还包括开发一个教育模块，专门为高中/新生受众介绍绿色计算的概念。该单元的目标是向学生展示工程对社会的好处，希望吸引他们学习计算机工程学科。

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.