Researchers at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of
Engineering and Applied Science have announced three
designs for interconnecting chip components using a
"spin wave bus" that acts as a waveguide for electron
spin rather than the current flow other spintronic devices
employ, and their devices will work at room temperature.
They claim their designs can allow simultaneous communication of
many signals over the same paths, and that a single node in an
electronic chip can be allowed to directly communicate to a huge
number of other nodes, rather than the very limited fanout of
normal current-based gate elements. They envision massive
meshes of processors for parallel computing where each processor
can signal all the others at once, all on one chip. And
power consumption is extemely low since electron current is not
the means of transmission.
Spin Buses Proposed to Provide Low Power Massively Parallel Chip Interconnections
Researchers at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have announced three designs for interconnecting chip components using a "spin wave bus" that acts as a waveguide for electron spin rather than the current flow other spintronic devices employ, and their devices will work at room temperature.
They claim their designs can allow simultaneous communication of many signals over the same paths, and that a single node in an electronic chip can be allowed to directly communicate to a huge number of other nodes, rather than the very limited fanout of normal current-based gate elements. They envision massive meshes of processors for parallel computing where each processor can signal all the others at once, all on one chip. And power consumption is extemely low since electron current is not the means of transmission.