Student research poster: Compiling Boolean circuits to non-deterministic branching programs to be implemented by light switching circuits

Abstract

The MOS transistor technology is well studied and found in billions of devices, however, there are several problems which force us to search for an alternative: The major problem - we almost reached the limits of current technology. Transistors are already being fabricated in atomic scale and soon we will be unable to make them any smaller. Each transistor device has switching and propagation delays since it is essentially a composition of resistors an capacitors. Current digital devices use CMOS based Boolean circuits (BCs) where one transistor in gate I triggers the transistors of the next gate in the BC and the calculation speed is limited by BC's depth.