Compiling a Mechanical Nanocomputer Adder

- Computer component fabrication is approaching physical limits of traditional photolithographic fabrication techniques. An alternative computer architecture may be enabled by the rapidly maturing field of nanotechnology, and consist of nanomechanical computational machines similar to those first proposed by Eric Drexler, or other nanoscale components. In this study, we propose the design of a nanocompiler which targets a simulated hydrocarbon assembler. The compiler framework and resulting nano-mechanical machine is simulated using a component-level Colored Petri Net model of a 32-bit adder and an atomic-level gate simulator. Future work is proposed to extend the framework to simulate a full range nano-mechanical processing components.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CDES
• Authors: Thomas Way, Tao Tao
• Keywords: CDES 2007, Computer Component Fabrication, Hardware, Nano-mechanical Processing Components, Simulated Hydrocarbon Assembler