Optics inspired logic architecture

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 150-165

  Hardy, James ^a   Shamir, Joseph ^b  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY DISSIPATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VECTORS;

BOOLEAN LOGIC; COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES; NON-DISSIPATIVE DIGITAL LOGIC ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL INPUT SCHEME;

LOGIC DEVICES;

EID: 33846127113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000150     Document Type: Article

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