TY - GEN
T1 - Can systems extend to polymer? SoP architecture design and challenges
AU - Gupta, Ujjwal
AU - Jain, Sankalp
AU - Ogras, Umit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2016/2/12
Y1 - 2016/2/12
N2 - Mechanically flexible and conformal shaped electronics is gaining momentum in today's electronics ecosystem. Rapid progress at device and circuit levels are already underway, but researchers are yet to envision the system design in a flexible form. This paper introduces hybrid flexible systems, and coins the term System-on-Polymer (SoP) to combine the advantages of flexible electronics and traditional silicon technology. First, we formally define flexibility as a new design metric in addition to existing power, performance, and area metrics. Then, we present a novel optimization approach to place rigid components on to a flexible substrate while minimizing the loss in flexibility. We show that intuitive placement leads to as much as 5.7x loss in flexibility compared to the optimal placement. Finally, we discuss major challenges in the architecture and design of SoPs.
AB - Mechanically flexible and conformal shaped electronics is gaining momentum in today's electronics ecosystem. Rapid progress at device and circuit levels are already underway, but researchers are yet to envision the system design in a flexible form. This paper introduces hybrid flexible systems, and coins the term System-on-Polymer (SoP) to combine the advantages of flexible electronics and traditional silicon technology. First, we formally define flexibility as a new design metric in addition to existing power, performance, and area metrics. Then, we present a novel optimization approach to place rigid components on to a flexible substrate while minimizing the loss in flexibility. We show that intuitive placement leads to as much as 5.7x loss in flexibility compared to the optimal placement. Finally, we discuss major challenges in the architecture and design of SoPs.
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U2 - 10.1109/SOCC.2015.7406946
DO - 10.1109/SOCC.2015.7406946
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962440447
T3 - International System on Chip Conference
SP - 203
EP - 208
BT - Proceedings - 28th IEEE International System on Chip Conference, SOCC 2015
A2 - Buchner, Thomas
A2 - Zhao, Danella
A2 - Bhatia, Karan
A2 - Sridhar, Ramalingam
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 28th IEEE International System on Chip Conference, SOCC 2015
Y2 - 8 September 2015 through 11 September 2015
ER -