Toward innovative, robust, energy-efficient and probabilistic circuit and system architectures based on nanoscale devices

迈向基于纳米级器件的创新、稳健、节能和概率电路和系统架构

• 批准号: 386722-2010
• 负责人: Han, Jie
• 金额: $ 1.68万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=463922
• 关键词: Toward; innovative; robust; energy; efficient

In the past decades, computers have been getting cheaper and at the same time more powerful. This is due to the continuous shrinking of electronic devices, so that more and more components can be packed into a single chip with a relatively low cost. However, this scaling trend is not endless and is predicted to be soon hitting a brick wall. In the nanometer (one billionth of a meter) regime, where the current silicon technology has reached, both silicon and other nanometer-scale (or nanotechnology) devices start to have problems such as poor reliabilities, high error rates and high power consumption. These new characteristics of nanoscale devices challenge the traditional thinking about how computers are made.

在过去的几十年里，计算机变得越来越便宜，同时也越来越强大。这是由于电子器件的不断缩小，使得越来越多的元件可以以相对较低的成本封装到单个芯片中。然而，这种扩展趋势并不是无止境的，预计很快就会碰壁。在当前硅技术已经达到的纳米（十亿分之一米）范围内，硅和其他纳米尺度（或纳米技术）器件都开始存在诸如可靠性差、高错误率和高功耗等问题。纳米器件的这些新特性挑战了关于计算机如何制造的传统思维。