From Utopian to Genuine Unconventional Computers
From Utopian to Genuine Unconventional Computers
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2006-07
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1.7
通讯作者：
A. Adamatzky;C. Teuscher
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作者：
A. Adamatzky;C. Teuscher
基于碰撞的反应扩散计算 (RDC) 将信息量子表示为在可激发介质上行进的化学波碎片。尽管利用其空间自由度肯定会提高介质的计算能力[2]，但我们在本文中对基于碰撞的 RDC 的解释是，由于“粒子融合”，波碎片“瞬时”沿“有限方向”传播。我们在这里不讨论基于碰撞的计算，而是讨论受基于碰撞的 RDC 启发的“融合门”的传统硅架构。该硬件由一组碰撞点（即融合门）、电等效波片段和将融合门相互连接的物理线构成。我们证明，i）基本逻辑门可以通过少量的融合门构建，ii）以系统的方式构建多输入逻辑门，以及iii）通过所提出的方法构建的特定逻辑门中的晶体管数量明显小于传统逻辑门，同时保持高速和低功耗操作。
Collision-based reaction-diffusion computing (RDC) represents information quanta as traveling chemical wave fragments on an excitable medium. Although the medium’s computational ability is certainly increased by utilizing its spatial degrees of freedom [2], our interpretation of collision-based RDC in this paper is that wave fragments travel along ‘limited directions’ ‘instantaneously’ as a result of the ‘fusion of particles’. We do not deal with collision-based computing here, but will deal with conventional silicon architectures of a ‘fusion gate’ inspired by collision-based RDC. The hardware is constructed of a population of collision points, i.e., fusion gates, of electrically equivalent wave fragments and physical wires that connect the fusion gates to each other. We show that i) fundamental logic gates can be constructed by a small number of fusion gates, ii) multiple-input logic gates are constructed in a systematic manner, and iii) the number of transistors in specific logic gates constructed by the proposed method is significantly smaller than that of conventional logic gates while maintaining high-speed and low-power operations.