Complementary nano-electromechanical switches for ultra-low power embedded processors

Proceedings of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 309-314

  Alzoubi, Khawla ^b   Saab, Daniel G ^b   Tabib Azar, Massood ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; Device; NEMS; Switch; Ultra low power

Indexed keywords

BASIC LOGIC; CMOS; DESIGN AUTOMATIONS; DESIGN METHOD; DEVICE; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; EMBEDDED PROCESSORS; EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN; FUNDAMENTAL RESONANT FREQUENCIES; METALLIZATIONS; NANO-ELECTROMECHANICAL; NANO-METER-SCALE; OPERATION VOLTAGE; POWER CONSUMPTION; POWER DISSIPATION; SIMULATION RESULT; ULTRA-LOW POWER;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; LAKES; LOGIC GATES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

SWITCHES;

EID: 70350613012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1531542.1531613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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