TY - GEN
T1 - On ultra-low power hybrid NEMS-CMOS
AU - Beiu, V.
AU - Ibrahim, W.
AU - Tache, M.
AU - King Liu, T. J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/11/26
Y1 - 2014/11/26
N2 - In this paper we advocate the use of nano-electro-mechanical switches (NEMS) to eliminate static power consumption, and propose a dual-voltage hybrid NEMS-CMOS scheme to also reduce dynamic power consumption. The main idea is to use a smaller voltage to propagate information, and a larger voltage to drive the NEMS. CMOS amplifiers can be used to interface these two voltages. It follows that synthesizing gates with a large(r) number of inputs is beneficial, which matches very well the optimal NEMS circuit topology. Simulation results based on a particular 4-input Boolean function, show that significant power reductions can be expected when using such a hybrid design approach.
AB - In this paper we advocate the use of nano-electro-mechanical switches (NEMS) to eliminate static power consumption, and propose a dual-voltage hybrid NEMS-CMOS scheme to also reduce dynamic power consumption. The main idea is to use a smaller voltage to propagate information, and a larger voltage to drive the NEMS. CMOS amplifiers can be used to interface these two voltages. It follows that synthesizing gates with a large(r) number of inputs is beneficial, which matches very well the optimal NEMS circuit topology. Simulation results based on a particular 4-input Boolean function, show that significant power reductions can be expected when using such a hybrid design approach.
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U2 - 10.1109/NANO.2014.6968045
DO - 10.1109/NANO.2014.6968045
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84919489846
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology
SP - 201
EP - 206
BT - Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 14th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE-NANO 2014
Y2 - 18 August 2014 through 21 August 2014
ER -