Title :
What to do about the end of Moore´s law, probably!
Author :
Palem, Krishna ; Lingamneni, Avinash
Author_Institution :
NTU-Rice Inst. of Sustainable & Appl., Infodynamics, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
Computers process bits of information. A bit can take a value of 0 or 1, and computers process these bits through some physical mechanism. In the early days of electronic computers, this was done by electromechanical relays [28] which were soon replaced by vacuum tubes [6]. From the very beginning, these devices and the computers they were used to build were affected by concerns of reliability. For example, in a relatively recent interview with Presper Eckert [1] who co-designed ENIAC, widely believed to be the first electronic computer built, he notes: “we had a tube fail about every two days, and we could locate the problem within 15 minutes.”
Keywords :
computers; integrated circuit reliability; microprocessor chips; Moore law; electromechanical relay; electronic computer; information bits; reliability; vacuum tube; Algorithm design and analysis; Computational modeling; Hardware; Integrated circuit reliability; Probabilistic logic; Switches; Co-design; EDA; Energy-Accuracy Tradeoff; Inexact Circuit Design; Moore´s Law; Probabilistic CMOS;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2012 49th ACM/EDAC/IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4503-1199-1