TY - GEN
T1 - Minimizing communication power using near-neighbor axon-inspired lattices
AU - Beiu, Valeriu
AU - Zhang, Liren
AU - Ibrahim, Walid
AU - Tache, Mihai
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - By far the most daunting task facing nano-electronics are the wires, being at the heart of power/energy consumption, as: (i) their numbers are increasing exponentially (as each device needs a few wires); and (ii) they do not scale well for quite some time (their parasitic capacitances and RC-delays are not scaling in synch with devices). Innovations on both classical (i.e., based-on-wires, hence evolutionary) as well as on advanced (i.e., without-wire/beyond-wire, hence revolutionary) communication schemes are urgently needed. Trying to find inspiration from the neurons, we investigate here how axons are able to communicate at quite large distances on a very limited power budget. In particular, the paper analyzes axon-inspired communications as dense locally-connected arrays/lattices of voltage-gated (i.e., non-linear) ion channels. The theoretical results presented here suggest that hexagonal (or hex-connected) arrays would be the least power hungry ones.
AB - By far the most daunting task facing nano-electronics are the wires, being at the heart of power/energy consumption, as: (i) their numbers are increasing exponentially (as each device needs a few wires); and (ii) they do not scale well for quite some time (their parasitic capacitances and RC-delays are not scaling in synch with devices). Innovations on both classical (i.e., based-on-wires, hence evolutionary) as well as on advanced (i.e., without-wire/beyond-wire, hence revolutionary) communication schemes are urgently needed. Trying to find inspiration from the neurons, we investigate here how axons are able to communicate at quite large distances on a very limited power budget. In particular, the paper analyzes axon-inspired communications as dense locally-connected arrays/lattices of voltage-gated (i.e., non-linear) ion channels. The theoretical results presented here suggest that hexagonal (or hex-connected) arrays would be the least power hungry ones.
KW - Action potential
KW - axon
KW - cellular array
KW - communication
KW - ion channel
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U2 - 10.1109/NANO.2011.6144502
DO - 10.1109/NANO.2011.6144502
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84858994030
SN - 9781457715143
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology
SP - 426
EP - 430
BT - 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2011
T2 - 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2011
Y2 - 15 August 2011 through 19 August 2011
ER -