ECE 758 (SP’10) Homework-VI-A Due Date: March 25, 2010

No collaboration is permitted in this homework. Your work must be your own. This rule is strictly followed.

Extra credit for showing independent work

Read the first three articles and then a fourth one assigned to you (last 4 digits of your student ID) as posted here. You are encouraged to explore the literature on the topic of the assigned article. Based on your reading, submit a 4 to 6 page summary of what you learnt. Brainstorm how your topic could lead the design of the next generation microchip systems. Provide detailed references of your work.

Everyone in the Class: R. I. Bahar, D. Hammerstrom, J. Harlow, W. H. Joyner Jr., C. Lau, D. Marculescu, A. Orailoglu and M. Pedram, Architectures for Silicon Nanoelectronics and Beyond, Computer, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 25-33, January 2007.

Everyone in the Class: T. Munakata, Beyond Silicon: New Computing Paradigms, Comm. ACM, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 30-34, Sept. 2007.

Everyone in the Class: The Next 20 Years of Microchips, Scientific American, January 2010.

4716 & 4896: J. Kong, Computation with Carbon Nanotube Devices, Comm. ACM, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 40-42, Sept. 2007.

4907: R. Stadler, Molecular, Chemical and Organic Computing, Comm. ACM, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 43-45, Sept. 2007.

4717 & 2480: M. T. Bohr, R. S. Chau, T. Ghani and K. Mistry, "The High-k Solution," IEEE Spectrum, vol. 44, no. 10, pp. 29-35, October 2007

1526: J. H. Reif and T. H. Labean, Autonomous Programmable Biomolecular Devices using Self-Assembled DNA Nanostructures, Comm. ACM, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 46-53, Sept. 2007.

1008 & 3122: D. Bacon and D. Leung, Toward a World with Quantum Computers, Comm. ACM, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 55-59, Sept. 2007.

4852: H. Abdeldayem and D. A. Frazier, Optical Computing: Need and Challenge, Comm. ACM, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 60-62, Sept. 2007.

4367 & 3780: D. W. M. Marr and T. Munakata, Micro/Nanofluidic Computing, Comm. ACM, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 64-68, Sept. 2007.

0152: W. Robinett, G. S. Snider, P. J. Kuekes and S. Williams, Computing with a Trillion Crummy Components, Comm. ACM, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 35-39, Sept. 2007.

3125: & 3512: M. Aono, M. Hara and K. Aihara, Amoeba-Based Neurocomputing with Chaotic Dynamics, Comm. ACM, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 69-72, Sept. 2007.