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View SchemaThermal noise driven computing
| Authors | Laszlo B. Kish |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0607007 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0607007 |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.2359293 |
| Journal | Applied Physics Letters 89 (2006) 144104 (October 2) |
Abstract
The possibility of a new type of computing, where thermal noise is the information carrier and the clock in a computer, is studied. The information channel capacity and the lower limit of energy requirement/dissipation are studied in a simple digital system with zero threshold voltage, for the case of error probability close to 0.5, when the thermal noise is equal to or greater than the digital signal. In a simple hypothetical realization of a thermal noise driven gate, the lower limit of energy needed to generate the digital signal is 1.1*kT/bit. The arrangement has potentially improved energy efficiency and it is free of leakage current, crosstalk and ground plane electromagnetic interference problems. Disadvantage is the large number of redundancy elements needed for low-error operation.
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