News tagged with logic circuits

Self-Programming Hybrid Memristor/Transistor Circuit Could Continue Moore's Law

(PhysOrg.com) -- As researchers strive to increase the density and functionality of circuit elements onto computer chips, one newer option they have is a memory resistor (or “memristor”), the fourth passive ...

Technology / Engineering

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Researchers produce world's first programmable nanoprocessor

Engineers and scientists collaborating at Harvard University and the MITRE Corporation have developed and demonstrated the world's first programmable nanoprocessor.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

DNA could be backbone of next generation logic chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a single day, a solitary grad student at a lab bench can produce more simple logic circuits than the world's entire output of silicon chips in a month.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 11, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (33) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Moore's Law Marches on at Intel

Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today displayed a silicon wafer containing the world's first working chips built on 22nm process technology. The 22nm test circuits include both SRAM memory as well as ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 10

Researchers find possible evidence of Majorana fermions

(Phys.org) -- Researchers working out of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have constructed a device that appears to offer some evidence of the existence of Majorana fermions; the elusive particles ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

High reliability of flexible organic transistor memory looks promising for future electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the constant demand for high-performance nonvolatile memory devices, researchers continue to develop better memories - ones with low power consumption, good reliability, and low manufacturing ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers analyze the future of transistor-less magnonic logic circuits

(PhysOrg.com) -- As one of the newest research areas today, the field of magnonics is attracting researchers for many reasons, not the least being its possible role in the development of transistor-less logic ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers create molecular diode

Recently, at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Push-Button Logic on the Nanoscale

(PhysOrg.com) -- Circuits that can perform logic operations at the push of a button are a dime-a-dozen these days, but a breakthrough by researchers in the USA has meant they can be smaller and simpler than ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New device could bring optical information processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have created a new type of optical device small enough to fit millions on a computer chip that could lead to faster, more powerful information processing and supercomputers.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Largest biochemical circuit built out of small synthetic DNA molecules

In many ways, life is like a computer. An organism's genome is the software that tells the cellular and molecular machinery—the hardware—what to do. But instead of electronic circuitry, life relies ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Computing, Sudoku-style

When Alexey Radul began graduate work at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab in 2003, he was interested in natural-language processing -- designing software that could understand ordinary ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

'Chaogates' hold promise for the semiconductor industry

In a move that holds great significance for the semiconductor industry, a team of researchers has created an alternative to conventional logic gates, demonstrated them in silicon, and dubbed them "chaogates." The researchers ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Researchers invent a switch that could improve electronics

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have invented a new type of electronic switch that performs electronic logic functions within a single molecule. The incorporation of such single-molecule elements could enable ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Organic chips - not just in your kitchen anymore

(PhysOrg.com) -- IMEC researchers at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, in San Francisco, California are expected to introduce a microprocessor made with organic semiconductors.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog