SHF: Small: Circuits and Systems with Charge Recovery

混合动力汽车通过简单地将动能转化为储存在电池中的势能，实现了节能运输解决方案。车辆中混合的概念类似于本项目中提出的计算电荷回收的研究活动。电荷回收电路允许将用于计算的电荷中的能量再循环为电磁能；从而减少了计算中的能量浪费。这项计划将为在商业及消费电子产品中推行收费回收原则提供蓝图。具有电荷回收的绿色计算，特别是因为它影响了智能城市的物联网解决方案，这是一个当代领域，是一个主要的招聘工具，包括来自STEM中代表性不足人群的学生。将分发教育材料，以培训在本科和研究生阶段的真正多样化、多学科的电子学工作人员，使他们掌握新的电荷回收计算原理。以美国国家科学基金会本科生研究经验和垂直整合项目计划的形式，将提供大量的研究和项目类型的经验机会。该项目的主要目标是探索从工业处理器核心到小型专用集成电路节点规模的电荷回收解决方案的特点，并最终提供更环保的计算设备。在晶体管级、栅极级和计算机体系结构级提供了创新的解决方案。在每一个级别上都采用工业标准的绩效指标，并将用于将已开发的新产品技术转让给工业的过程中。该项目旨在颠覆工业中传统的基于cmos的数字逻辑设计过程，实现更便携、更快的计算解决方案。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Hybrid cars enable energy-efficient transportation solutions by simply recycling kinetic energy to potential energy stored in a battery. The concept of hybridization in vehicles is analogous to proposed research activities on this project for computation with charge recycling. Charge-recycling circuits allow for the recycling of the energy from the electrical charge used in computation into electromagnetic energy; consequently, reducing waste of energy in computation. This project will provide the blueprint for the implementation of charge recycling principles to commercial and consumer electronics. Green computing with charge recycling, particularly as it impacts smart cities with internet-of-things solutions as targeted in this work, is a contemporary area that is a major recruiting tool, including from students from underrepresented populations in STEM. Educational materials will be disseminated for the training of a truly diverse, multi-disciplinary workforce in electronics at the undergraduate and graduate levels with the new charge recycling computing principles. A multitude of research and project-type experience opportunities will be made available, in the form of NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates and the Vertically Integrated Projects programs. A primary goal of this project is to explore the peculiarities of implementing charge-recycling solutions at the scale of an industrial processor core down to a small application-specific integrated circuit node and ultimately deliver greener computing devices. Innovative solutions are offered at the transistor-level, gate-level and computer architecture level. Performance metrics that are industry-standard are adopted at each of these levels and will be used in the process of technology transfer of the developed novelties to industry. The project entails transformative goals in disrupting the conventional CMOS-based digital logic design process in industry and enable more portable and increasingly faster computing solutions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.