Panel Discussion

Reversible Adiabatic and Conservative Devices. Cold Fusion of Electronics? or Hope for the Future.

CHAIR: Thad Gabara, AT&T
CO-CHAIR: Bill Richards, MCNC

Over the last year or two, efforts have been focusing on the possibility of performing low power logic calculations using a new circuit technique incorporating the principles of thermodynamically reversible devices. This technique offers the potential of reducing the power dissiaption of IC circuits by an order of magnitude or more.

The potentials could allow portability of complex systems to become a reality by extending the lifetime of energy sources several fold.

Is the concept of themodymically reversible devices feasible? This session hopes to address this issue to see if these circuit techniques are possible.

PANELISTS:

• J. Storrs Hall ---- Rutgers University
• Tom Knight ---- MIT
• Paul Solomon ---- IBM
• Lars Svensson ---- ISI
• Alexander Albicki ---- University of Rochester
• Tom Wik ---- AT&T