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Advances in nanotechnology have made it possible to assemble nanostructures into a wide range of micrometer-scale sensors, actuators, and other novel devices... and to place thousands of such devices on a single chip. Most of these devices can benefit from intelligent control, but the control often requires full programmability for each device’s controller. This paper presents a combination of programming language, compiler technology, and target architecture that together provide full MIMD-style programmability with per-processor circuit complexity low enough to allow each nanotechnology-based device to be accompanied by its own nanocontroller.
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Dietz, H.G., Arcot, S.D., Gorantla, S. (2004). Much Ado about Almost Nothing: Compilation for Nanocontrollers. In: Rauchwerger, L. (eds) Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. LCPC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2958. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24644-2_30
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