I saw a similar talk and did indeed find it quite intriguing, the ability to allocate processor space with specific designs will have some really cool applications but will also require some interesting compilers to be able to handle the optimization challenges involved (I am thinking of more modular compilers, ones that behave differently than ones we have today, but I won't get into that here).
-Mason Bially On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Shawn Morel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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