MIND to host workshop on computer architectures | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › MIND to host workshop on computer architectures MIND to host workshop on computer architectures Published: August 11, 2009 Author: William G. Gilroy The Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND) will hold a workshop titled “Architectures for Post-CMOS Switches” on Aug. 18 (Tuesday) at 8 a.m. in the University of Notre Dame’s McKenna Hall. Led by Notre Dame, MIND is a research consortium designed to discover and develop the next nanoscale logic device, which will be the basic building block of future computer technology. The one-day workshop will examine how emerging post CMOS switches studied in the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI) of the Semiconductor Research Corporation can be used most effectively in design. “Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor” (CMOS) is the most widely used type of semiconductor. The event will seek to motivate and inspire researchers to identify logic functions accelerated in computing hardware by idiosyncrasy in specific post CMOS devices. New computing switch architectures may solve problems that CMOS either cannot address or attempts to do so in a most cumbersome way. The workshop also will include an interim readout of the NRI emerging switches architecture benchmarking effort. In collaboration with NRI and with support from the state of Indiana and the city of South Bend, the MIND consortium also includes Purdue University, the University of Illinois, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Michigan, Argonne National Laboratory, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Notre Dame is at the forefront of research in the field of computer architectures. Its Center for Nano Science and Technology, established in 1999, explores the fundamental concepts of nanoscience in order to develop unique engineering applications using nano principles. The center is composed of a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the Departments of Electrical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Physics. University researchers Wolfgang Porod and Craig S. Lent are co-inventors of Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata, a transistorless approach that does not rely on flowing electrons to transmit a signal, so no electric current is produced and heat problems are avoided. This approach, along with devices based on quantum-mechanical tunneling, spin and nonequilibrium carrier distributions, comprise the research and development focus of MIND. Porod, Notre Dame’s Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Kerry Bernstein of Applied Research Associates are organizers of the workshop. MIND, Notre Dame, SRC’s NRI and the National Science Foundation are sponsoring the event. Contact: Wolfgang Porod, 574-631-6376, porod@nd.edu Posted In: Research Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Related October 05, 2022 Astrophysicists find evidence for the presence of the first stars October 04, 2022 NIH awards $4 million grant to psychologists researching suicide prevention September 29, 2022 Notre Dame, Ukrainian Catholic University launch three new research grants September 27, 2022 Notre Dame, Trinity College Dublin engineers join to advance novel treatment for cystic fibrosis September 22, 2022 Climate-prepared countries are losing ground, latest ND-GAIN index shows For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn