NSF Funds Expedition intoSoftware for Efficient Computing in the Age of Nanoscale Devices
Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 08:42
in Physics & Chemistry
As semiconductor manufacturers build ever smaller components, circuits and chips at the nano scale become less reliable and more expensive to produce. The variability in their behavior from device to device and over their lifetimes - due to manufacturing, aging-related wear-out, and varying operating environments - is largely ignored by today's mainstream computer systems.