CSR-EHCS(EHS), SM: Investigating a Novel Embedded Processor Architecture for Electonic Textiles in Wearable and Pervasive Computing

CSR-EHCS(EHS)、SM：研究可穿戴和普适计算中电子纺织品的新型嵌入式处理器架构

• 批准号: 0834490
• 负责人: Mark Jones
• 金额: $ 22万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0834490&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSR; EHCS; EHS; SM; Investigating

The purpose of this project is to explore novel embedded processor architectures for electronic textiles (e-textiles). E-textiles are intelligent fabrics where sensors and computation are intrinsic to the cloth, with applications in medicine, entertainment, and sports. E-textiles occupy an extremely constrained point in the embedded system design space, having a large number of networked sensors and processors distributed throughout the fabric and tight requirements on performance, energy consumption, and reliability.Research at the Virginia Tech E-textiles Lab has shown that a Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) approach allows designers to effectively manage the complexity of the e-textile design space, which includes issues such as fiber selection, the weave pattern, the physical topology of the electrical/communication network in the fabric, the number/type/location of sensor/actuator nodes, the number and type of computational nodes, the system software organization, and the application algorithms.However, an MDE approach does not yield an implementation that is easily portable while being power- and performance-efficient, due to a fundamental mismatch between the MDE design specification and the target microprocessors. The approach in this project is to develop an event-driven computer architecture family that presents an abstraction that is well-matched to the MDE design specification.The potential benefits of this project include using the architecture family to improve the reliability, design cost, and energy efficiency of embedded systems besides e-textiles. The broader impacts of the project include e-textile applications in medical monitoring, wearable computing, and pervasive computing. Educational benefits include providing undergraduate and graduate students with multidisciplinary research experience.

该项目的目的是探索用于电子纺织品（E-Textiles）的新型嵌入式处理器架构。 电子纹理是智能的面料，其中传感器和计算是布的固有的，并在医学，娱乐和运动中应用。 E-textiles occupy an extremely constrained point in the embedded system design space, having a large number of networked sensors and processors distributed throughout the fabric and tight requirements on performance, energy consumption, and reliability.Research at the Virginia Tech E-textiles Lab has shown that a Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) approach allows designers to effectively manage the complexity of the e-textile design space, which includes issues such as fiber selection, the weave pattern, the电气/通信网络中电气/通信网络的物理拓扑，传感器/执行器节点的数量/类型/位置，计算节点的数量和类型，系统软件组织和应用算法。 该项目的方法是开发一个以事件为导向的计算机架构家族，该家族呈现出与MDE设计规范相匹配的抽象。该项目的潜在好处包括使用建筑系列来提高嵌入式系统的可靠性，设计成本以及除电子产品外的嵌入式系统的能效。 该项目的更广泛影响包括医疗监测，可穿戴计算和普遍计算中的电子纹理应用。 教育益处包括为本科生和研究生提供多学科研究经验。