TY - GEN
T1 - Ultra low power/energy SET-based axon-inspired communication
AU - Beg, Azam
AU - Beiu, Valeriu
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by Contract HHSN272201400006C from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, United States, and the Theme-based Research Scheme (Project No. T11-705/14N) from the Government of Hong Kong, China.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Power consumption has been recognized as a grand challenge for nano-electronics. With continuous scaling, wires (much more than devices) are going to be the ones (almost entirely) determining dynamic power. That is why innovations in classical (i.e., based-on-wires) communication as well as radical (i.e., beyond-wire) solutions are called upon to tackle this challenge. One source of inspiration is expected to be the brain, and in particular the neurons themselves as they are able to communicate at reasonably large distances (compared to their size) on a very limited power budget (dendritic and axonal communications). This paper builds on very recent results analyzing axon-inspired communications as dense lattices of locally connected ion channels. In this paper we try to emulate the logical functioning of a voltage-gated ion channel using single-electron technology/transistors (SETs). Such an approach should in principle lead to practical power/energy lower bounds for nanoelectronics.
AB - Power consumption has been recognized as a grand challenge for nano-electronics. With continuous scaling, wires (much more than devices) are going to be the ones (almost entirely) determining dynamic power. That is why innovations in classical (i.e., based-on-wires) communication as well as radical (i.e., beyond-wire) solutions are called upon to tackle this challenge. One source of inspiration is expected to be the brain, and in particular the neurons themselves as they are able to communicate at reasonably large distances (compared to their size) on a very limited power budget (dendritic and axonal communications). This paper builds on very recent results analyzing axon-inspired communications as dense lattices of locally connected ion channels. In this paper we try to emulate the logical functioning of a voltage-gated ion channel using single-electron technology/transistors (SETs). Such an approach should in principle lead to practical power/energy lower bounds for nanoelectronics.
KW - Communication
KW - axon
KW - ion channel
KW - power
KW - single electron technology/transistor (SET)
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U2 - 10.1109/NANO.2011.6144563
DO - 10.1109/NANO.2011.6144563
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84858995036
SN - 9781457715143
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology
SP - 1183
EP - 1186
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 -