1. Discussion Lead: Pen-Chung (Pen) Yew
2017 NSF CSR PI Meeting Discussion Session: Hardware and Computer Architecture
Discussion Lead: Pen-Chung (Pen) Yew

2. Hardware and Computer Architecture Session (I)
New emerging areas
End of Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling prompts the need for innovative computer architectures to explore new hardware technologies, e.g. 3D integration, HBM, quantum computing, carbon nanotube, ….
New applications such as deep learning, virtual reality, autonomous systems, IoT, demands hardware specialization to achieve power efficiency and higher performance, e.g. FPGA-based, ASIC-based architectures
Innovative memory abstractions and implementations are needed for data-centric computing, new memory devices such as HBM, persistent memory, and network-based storage systems.

3. Hardware and Computer Architecture Session (II)
Selecting appropriate hardware and software boundaries and support for programmability will be critical
Architecture support for better security and privacy will continue to be important
Need to look at new computation models such as biological-inspired systems, e.g. DNA-based storage devices
Areas that need larger collaborative teams to make progress
System design infrastructures are needed to support ASIC/FPGA SW/HW co-design, design-space exploration, componentized and reusable HW design, evaluation and testing tools…