Compiling Mechanical Nanocomputer Components

Compiling a Mechanical Nanocomputer Adder

Computer component fabrication is approaching physical limits of traditional photolithographic fabrication techniques. An alternative computer architecture may be enabled by the rapidly maturing field of nanotechnology, and consist of nanomechanical computational machines similar to those first proposed by Eric Drexler, or other nanoscale components. In this study, we propose the design of a na...

MolML: An Abstract Scripting Language for Assembly of Mechanical Nanocomputer Architectures

Sizes of computer components are reaching nanoscale dimensions, causing physical limitations to be met in traditional computer architectures. This study surveys the field of alternative nanocomputer architectures, including the nano-mechanical computational machines first proposed by Eric Drexler. A high-level XML programming language, MolML, is introduced as a scripting language for hydrocarbo...

Towards a Reconfigurable Nanocomputer Platform

Some ideas are presented for achieving lowoverhead reconfigurability in systems built from nanoscale components. Via three example circuits, it is demonstrated how it will be possible to exploit a number of alternative “dimensions” – apart from the obvious spatial dimension to construct compact configurable cells. Configurability based on dual gate transistors using RTD-based multi-valued logic...

Wires , switches , and wiring . A route toward a chemically assembled electronic nanocomputer *

A Boolean logic, nonreversible computing machine should, in principle, be capable of 1018 bit operations per second at a power consumption of 1 W. In order to build such a machine that can even approach this benchmark for efficiency, the development of a robust quantum-state switch capable of ambient operation, as well as a bottom–up manufacturing technology, will be necessary. My group, in col...

Nanocomputers and swarm intelligence