Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the by Quentin Schultze

By Quentin Schultze

Habits of the High-Tech Heart addresses the key drawbacks to the community computerization of our society and the turning out to be tendency to replacement know-how and innovation for morality and virtue.

The resolution isn't to dismantle our starting to be applied sciences yet to pay extra cognizance to the "habits of the heart." Schultze demands a renewal of neighborhood and gives readers how you can reside through behavior of the guts within the details age.

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Hoefflinger losing out on the total energy bill. We introduced a throughput FOM, which checks the ratio of operations/s divided by the energy/operation. This assessment has shown that differential transmission-gate logic beats standard-cell logic, especially for low-voltage, energy-efficient processing, in energy-efficiency by an order-ofmagnitude and in the throughput FOM by more than an order-of-magnitude. A breakthrough in vertical, 3D transistor integration on-chip is the series-connected-poly-Si-transistor towers for ultra-high-density NAND Flash memories, which reached 128 Gb/chip production levels in 2013.

This indicates that the low-voltage operation is effective to get higher MOPS/mW in digital signal- or image-processing applications. It has been pointed out that a dedicated-processor solution provides 1000-times higher performance compared to the microprocessor solution. This is due to the CPU-memory bottleneck [14]. This suggests that the combination of the low-voltage CPU and a dedicated-processing element such as CMA or off-loader enables much better performance/power solutions. 3 Low-Power Non-volatile Memories and Switches In present-day electronics and IT equipment, many types of memories are used in each hierarchy.

The pie chart shows the components of energy and leakage at the MEP. 2 Energy-efficient multipliers 2000–2020 Ref. 33 2008 [15] 2012 [10] 2014 [16] a 40 MOP/s Power Energy/Op. 21 15-cycles pipeline 800 nm with 100 nm T-gate transistors b As we shall see in the following comparisons, these FOM’s on tested multipliers and adders are the highest, reported by the spring of 2014, to our knowledge. Previously in [1], we have selected multipliers as the key elements for logic operations because their complexity normally rises with n2, the square of their word lengths n and because they determine the speed, measured in operations/s.

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