Just watched a very interesting talk on memristors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY&feature=related
I hadn't bothered going into very much detail so far - for some reason, I thought memristors would end up being primarily used as memory elements that supplant the traditional sram, dram, HDD hierarchy. That on its own is kind of cool and would probably help shift us away from files and more towards long-lived objects. The talk, however, describes ways that memristors can be organized to be an arbitrary combination of switching, memory, logic or even analog emulations of synaptic behaviour. The talk touches briefly on compiling from C down to logic gates (Russell's material implication). Some key aspects is that, as opposed to FPGAs the "reprogramming" can take place in a very short time and they addressing capabilities of a HW associative memory are quite large. For example, it could take a few nanoseconds to create HW N-way associative lookup - that's to say, I could on the fly configure a piece of HW to actually represent object message dispatch! shawn _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
