The application of nanoscale devices and assembly techniques to computer architecture has posed a difficult challenge to computer scientists and engineers. This challenge stems from the dramatic change in the reliability, scale, and electronic properties of the underlying technology used to fabricate next-generation computing machines, i.e. nanotechnology.
These changes in the technology require unconventional machine designs to
capture the intuitive advantages (e.g. device density, manufacturing
scale, etc.) of the new fabrication techniques. This talk will briefly
describe the properties of several nanoelectronic devices and
architectures that are suitable for implementation by nanoscale
fabrication methods.