TY - GEN
T1 - MEM Relay For the Internet of Things Applications
AU - Li, Ren
AU - Fariborzi, Hossein
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2022-09-20
PY - 2022/9/16
Y1 - 2022/9/16
N2 - In the dawn of the Internet of Things (IoT) era, device-to-device interactions on real-time data without involving humans have become a vital part of everyday life. Hence, ultra-low-power sensors and processing units are of the utmost importance. In recent years, micro-electromechanical (MEM) relays have been treated as promising beyond-CMOS candidates due to their zero-leaking and steep turn ON/OFF properties. This paper presents a MEM relay and its characterization, followed by a demonstration of relay-based core logic circuits, including an XOR and an adder. The relays' mechanical operation makes them inevitably slower than transistors; however, this paper demonstrates that a scaled 32-bit relay adder consumes 60 times less energy per operation than its CMOS counterpart in 40 nm technology. The proposed relay circuits, with their ultra-low power consumption property, are particularly suitable for applications with rigorous energy requirements while operating at a slow-to-moderate speed, such as wearable accessories, remote sensors, and implantable biomedical devices.
AB - In the dawn of the Internet of Things (IoT) era, device-to-device interactions on real-time data without involving humans have become a vital part of everyday life. Hence, ultra-low-power sensors and processing units are of the utmost importance. In recent years, micro-electromechanical (MEM) relays have been treated as promising beyond-CMOS candidates due to their zero-leaking and steep turn ON/OFF properties. This paper presents a MEM relay and its characterization, followed by a demonstration of relay-based core logic circuits, including an XOR and an adder. The relays' mechanical operation makes them inevitably slower than transistors; however, this paper demonstrates that a scaled 32-bit relay adder consumes 60 times less energy per operation than its CMOS counterpart in 40 nm technology. The proposed relay circuits, with their ultra-low power consumption property, are particularly suitable for applications with rigorous energy requirements while operating at a slow-to-moderate speed, such as wearable accessories, remote sensors, and implantable biomedical devices.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/681589
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9881019/
U2 - 10.1109/sbmicro55822.2022.9881019
DO - 10.1109/sbmicro55822.2022.9881019
M3 - Conference contribution
BT - 2022 36th Symposium on Microelectronics Technology (SBMICRO)
PB - IEEE
ER -