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The Alternatives Theme is chartered to explore the territory lying beyond
the legacy of Von Neumann, Turing and Boole which forms the foundations of
modern day computational systems. The Von Neumann-Turing-Boole legacy is
based on the presumption that component behavior is deterministic; a
presumption that is no longer true in the nanometer era where variations,
noise and soft-errors have pushed the circuit fabric into the statistical
realm. While the other themes within GSRC view the manifestation of the
statistical nature of the underlying process and circuit fabric as
errors, the Alternatives Theme seeks to embrace these variations and
investigate computational paradigms that thrive on the very notion of
randomness.
The Collaborative Networks Cluster in the Alternatives Theme
takes a top-down approach by looking to exploit the inherent robustness of
sensor networks, dynamical networks, and other communication-inspired
networks to simultaneously achieve energy-efficiency and robustness.
The
Nanofabric Technologies Cluster takes a bottoms-up view by studying the
logic, architectural and system-level implications of using post-silicon
devices such as Carbon Nano-tubes and others.
Cross-collaborations with
our sister MARCO FCRP Centers,
MSD,
FENA and
C2S2, have been established in order to leverage the
intellectual, informational and material resources across these Centers.
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