Computing with Waves: the Analogic Cellular Computing paradigm for electrons; photons and molecules

摘要

An emerging computing paradigm is presneted bridgint the gap between many ovel technologies using photons, electrons, and moelcules for signal processing. Computing with waves is the essence of the analogic cellular computer, having elementary instructions as PDE solvers on a grid. The formal computer architecture, the CNN Universal Machine, has bene impelmented in CMOS, in optical and in molecular level technologies. The standard CMOS impelmentation is a single chip visual microprocessor with TeraOPS speed. The heart of the matter is described by a formal framework where the data are flow. The only discrete entity is the space. Recent developments as well as the computational infrastructure are briefly summarized.