Nanoelectronic Device Applications Handbook

15	Axon-Inspired Communication Systems Valeriu Beiu, Liren Zhang, Azam Beg, Walid Ibrahim and Mihai Tache

CONTENTS

15.1  Introduction

15.2  Axon Communication

15.3  Optimal Arrays for Minimizing Power

15.4  Axon-Inspired Communication in Single Electron Technology

15.5  Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

15.1  INTRODUCTION

The latest ITRS (International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors) [1] has identified power consumption as a grand challenge for nanoelectronics. A related daunting task is represented by the passive wires (interconnects), see [2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8]. They are the ones driving the power/energy consumption, as their number increases exponentially (each device has to be connected by several wires to other devices, and ...