Scaling beyond CMOS: Turing-Heisenberg Rapproachment

Author

Zhirnov, V.V. ; Cavin, Ralph K., III

Author_Institution

Semicond. Res. Corp., Durham, NC, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

14-18 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

22

Abstract

The primary objective of this study is to explore the connection of the device physics in the Boltzmann-Heisenberg limits and the parameters of the digital circuits implemented from these devices. We offer an abstraction of a minimal Turing machine built from the limiting devices and circuits, thus Turing-Heisenberg rapprochement. The analysis suggests a possible limit to computational performance similar to the Carnot efficiency limit for heat engines.

Keywords

Boltzmann equation; CMOS digital integrated circuits; Turing machines; electronic engineering computing; integrated circuit interconnections; Boltzmann-Heisenberg limits; CMOS; Turing-Heisenberg rapproachment; computational performance; device physics; digital circuit parameters; interconnect system; limiting devices; minimal Turing machine abstraction; scaling limits; CMOS technology; Heat engines; Information processing; Integrated circuit interconnections; Integrated circuit technology; Microprocessors; Physics; Space technology; Switches; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid State Device Research Conference, 2009. ESSDERC '09. Proceedings of the European

Conference_Location

Athens

ISSN

1930-8876

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4351-2

Electronic_ISBN

1930-8876

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESSDERC.2009.5331360

Filename

5331360