Objective
Though current day designs carry the promise of meeting the ever escalating demands of high performance/ quality requirements, they often exhibit large power consumption that limits the battery lifetime and generates excessive heat. Besides power consumption, process variations also pose major design concern with scaling of devices that may lead to erroneous computations and loss of stored data threatening the correct operation of future systems. Addressing both issues of low-power and reliable operation simultaneously is one of the most challenging design problems that semiconductor industry is facing today since they are contradictory in nature. The proposed project plans to address both issues by identifying and utilizing algorithmic level characteristics that can allow the design of systems that provide the right trade-offs between output quality, energy consumption and parametric yield under technology imperfections. The feasibility of the proposed cross-layer design methodology is demonstrated by our observation that for DSP systems, all computations are not equally important in shaping the output response. For such systems, some computations are more critical for determining the output quality, while others play a less important role. This information is exploited in this proposal to develop suitable designs for logic and memory elements of wireless systems that are the core of all today’s portable devices. Main target of the proposed project is to reduce the high cost of existing variation-aware techniques and overcome the incompatibility of most of them with DSP systems. Furthermore, in order to improve the energy efficiency of systems the proposal will take into account system level interactions trying to limit the energy wasted in various blocks that may operate unnecessarily in high power/quality modes in case of non-ideal operating conditions. The project is expected to strengthen EU research in one of the most challenging research topics.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
You need to log in or register to use this function
We are sorry... an unexpected error occurred during execution.
You need to be authenticated. Your session might have expired.
Thank you for your feedback. You will soon receive an email to confirm the submission. If you have selected to be notified about the reporting status, you will also be contacted when the reporting status will change.
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Call for proposal
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG
See other projects for this call
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
MC-CIG - Support for training and career development of researcher (CIG)
Coordinator
BT7 1NN BELFAST
United Kingdom
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.