GALACA - Oral Briefing 1:
Project #4 Plans
- What kind of communication are you writing?
Feasibility study.
Who will your readers be?
Our Readers will be those in the electronics design field that are now producing electronic circuit boards and integrated circuit chips that incorporate transistors as the main means for data transfer and memory storage.
What role will you be playing?
The role we will be playing is that of the entity that has developed a preliminary working prototype of a viable alternative to the transistor that is used in data transfer and memory storage. We plan to prove that the memristor is a beneficial replacement for transistors.
Identify your readers by telling what organization they are in and what positions your key readers hold.
Our readers will hold decision making positions as well as head research personnel in major chip manufacturers across the globe. These will include such companies as AMD, HP, MOTOROLA, and INTEL.
Describe your role by saying whether you are imagining that you work for the company as a regular employee or have been hired as a consultant.
Our role as a group is the head of research / marketing / finance / manufacturing at GALACA Enterprises.
State whom you report to.
We report to the VP of each of these departments as well as the CEO’s of GALACA. We essentially are in a group that is providing a feasibility study report to the co-founders of the company.
- What systemic or organizational problem will your communication help your readers solve?
The end of transistor technology as predicted by Moore’s Law
What need or goal will it help them satisfy or reach?
The goal that our communication, in this case a feasibility study, will be to prove that the memristor is cheaper, faster, and smaller that the existing technology provided by transistor technology. This will be able to mitigate the effect of Moore’s Law and allow electronics to enter the next generation of technology. As major chip manufacturer’s, this information will provide proof that they could produce new data transfer and storage devices as well as faster CPU chips.
Provide full background so your classmates can understand the situation from your readers’ point of view.
The background to this is that according to Moore’s Law, transistor technology will reach an end eventually. Moore’s Law states that technology in transistors doubles every 12 – 18 months. This will eventually end in a debated amount of time and there are many efforts the electronics research community are involved in to mitigate this road block. The memristor provides a means replacing up to 15 key transistors at this time and eliminate the eventual end to this. The memristor can me mass produced at the nano level and can be stacked to provide many times more data calculations per area that current integrated circuits using transistor technology.
- What are you doing to solve the problem?
We have developed a memristor that can replace the current technology.
Your research activities: What kinds of information are you gathering, and how, or what kind of analysis are you providing and why?
We are gathering manufacturing, cost, and process material data. We plan to analyze the environmental impacts, cost savings, and manufacturing processes to determine if these areas are in fact better than the current corresponding aspects of the transistor.
Your writing activities: How do you plan to organize and present your information? What will your communication look like?
We plan to present the information in a formal feasibility report that will have a modern look and feel.
- What is the gist of your message to your readers?
What are the main points you are planning to make?
The main points we are planning to make are: Memristors are Cheaper, Faster, and Smaller than current transistor technology.