The need for small, high speed, low power computers as the end of Moore's law approaches s driving research into nanotechnology. These novel devices have significantly different properties than traditional MOS devices and require new design methodologies, which in turn provide exciting architectural opportunities. The H-memory is a design developed for a particular nanotechnology, quantum-dot cellular automata. We propose a new execution model that merges with the H-memory to exploit the characteristics of this nanotechnology by distributing the functionality of the CPU throughout the memory structure.
Citation:
Sarah E. Frost, Arun F. Rodrigues, Charles A. Giefer, Peter M. Kogge, "Bouncing Threads: Merging a New Execution Model into a Nanotechnology Memory," isvlsi, pp.19, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI'03), 2003