The quest for energy aware computing

Summary form only given. How do natural systems endure and how is nature inherently renewable? Can we learn from the supreme engineer - nature - how to design systems that are either energy aware by themselves or aid in achieving true sustainability in man-made systems? Electronic system design has benefited from decades of reliable and predictable functionality, but this trend is likely to slow down in future technology nodes. To support a path toward energy aware computing, a holistic approach toward addressing energy awareness, reliability, and variability at all the levels in the system is required. Furthermore, while design tools and methodologies for individual systems is relatively mature, achieving true energy efficiency for many real-life applications is still emerging. This talk will discuss our work on achieving superior performance and power efficiency for silicon systems in the presence of challenges induced by manufacturing process uncertainties and will unravel applications of classic tool sets to the design and analysis of large scale real-life applications.