Nanocomputer Systems Engineering

Nanocomputer Systems Engineering demonstrates the major early results of a crucial new engineering discipline called nanocomputer systems engineering (NCSE). The book provides straightforward methods for analyzing and optimizing the cost efficiency of nanocomputers, including thermal considerations. The author introduces and explains all the basic mathematical, physical, and computational concepts necessary to understand the subject. The text explains the fundamental physics of computing, including the basic limits imposed by relativity, thermodynamics and quantum mechanics and gives a general methodology for analyzing and optimizing the efficiency of a nanocomputer system.