Computing Fabrics

Emerging Technologies and Nanoscale Computing Fabrics

This chapter describes a reconfigurable computing architecture based on clusters of regular matrices of fine-grain dynamically reconfigurable cells using double-gate carbon nanotube field effect transistors (DG-CNTFET), which exhibit ambivalence (p-type or n-type behaviour depending on the backgate voltage). Hierarchical function mapping methods suitable for the cluster of matrices structure ha...

Invited: A Systems Approach to Computing in Beyond CMOS Fabrics

Ameya Patil, Naresh Shanbhag, Lav Varshney, Eric Pop, H.-S. Philip Wong, Subhasish Mitra, Jan Rabaey, Jeffrey Weldon, Larry Pileggi, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Dmitri Nikonov, and Ian Young Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR {adpatil2, shanbhag, varshney}@illino...

Media Fabrics:

Imagine the stories we would tell if we could construct media experiences as easily and playfully as we now use spoken language. Today, storytelling approaches are transitioning due in part to the abilities of small, mobile networked devices to capture, manipulate, share, exchange and publish visual and sound sequences. This paper explores a new paradigm we call the ‘media fabric’ -a vast colle...

Convolutional Neural Fabrics

Despite the success of CNNs, selecting the optimal architecture for a given task remains an open problem. Instead of aiming to select a single optimal architecture, we propose a “fabric” that embeds an exponentially large number of architectures. The fabric consists of a 3D trellis that connects response maps at different layers, scales, and channels with a sparse homogeneous local connectivity...

Woven Fabrics Surface Quantification