Plenary Speech 2P3: The Greening of The SoC - How Electrical Engineers Will Save The World

Abstract

Global Warming is hot! Climate change is occurring all around us, and the scientific evidence is increasingly overwhelming pointing to man's hand in the phenomena. We are already seeing huge impacts of Climate Change, much faster than anybody predicted, only a few short years ago. What can we do about? How can we slow and even reverse our impact on Climate Change? The key man made contributing factor is carbon emissions, primarily from coal fired power plants. We need to reduce the number of plants that we building, then the number of power plants that we require.The key to this is a reduction in power consumption.There are many everyday actions we can take individually to help. Al Gore states that Global Warming is an engineering problem that will be solved by engineers, addressing the issue as an opportunity, rather than additional cost. We will explore how engineers will impact Climate Change. Low power IC design techniques will play a role in this just as new powerful techniques are coming into vogue.