Environment Friendly

My research group and my advisor, Dr. Delgado, are looking into ways that reconfigurable hardware might be better for the environment than current technology. The problem is that the existing process of manufacturing integrated circuits uses a lot of energy and produces a lot of waste. This process also has a relatively low yield, meaning that many of the chips are faulty and must be discarded as waste, too. Reconfigurable hardware has the potential to increase the yield of the manufacturing process and extend the average lifetime of each chip. This means that fewer chips will have to be made each year.