{"id":238,"date":"2016-08-24T17:59:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alexyakovlev\/?p=238"},"modified":"2016-08-24T17:59:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:59:44","slug":"my-vision-of-bio-inspired-electronic-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alexyakovlev\/2016\/08\/24\/my-vision-of-bio-inspired-electronic-design\/","title":{"rendered":"My vision of Bio-inspired Electronic Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took part in a Panel on Bio-inspired Electronic Design Principles at the<\/p>\n

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SRC Workshop on EDA\/BDA Interaction Roadmap<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

Here are my slides<\/a><\/p>\n

The quick summary of these ideas is here:<\/p>\n

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Summary of ideas for discussion from Alex Yakovlev, Newcastle University<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With my 30 years of experience in designing and automating the design of self-timed (aka asynchronous) systems, I have been involved in studying and exploiting in practice the following characteristics of electronic systems:\u00a0 inherent concurrency, event-driven and causality-based processing, parametric variation resilience, close-loop timing error avoidance and correction, energy-proportionality, digital and mixed-signal interfaces. More recently, I have been looking at new bio-inspired paradigms such as energy-modulated and power-adaptive computing, significance-driven approximate computing, real-power (to match real-time!) computing, computing with survival instincts, computing with central and peripheral powering and timing, power layering in systems architecting, exploiting burstiness and regularity of processing etc.<\/p>\n

In most of these the central role belongs to the notion of energy flow as a key driving force in the new generation of microelectronics. I will therefore be approaching most of the Questions raised for the Panel from the energy flow perspective. The other strong aspect I want to address that acts as a drive for innovation in electronics is a combination of technological and economic factors, which is closely related to survival, both in the sense of longevity of a particular system as well as survival of design patterns and IPs as a longevity of the system as a kind or as a system design process.<\/p>\n

My main tenets in this discussion are:<\/p>\n