“We approach the hardware platform design as a systems challenge,” Shukla said. The team’s proposed hardware platform, named FerroCoDE, will compute in the analog domain to exploit the rich spatial and temporal characteristics of the underlying devices and circuits. Instead of computing with ones and zeros like digital computers, a solution emerges from the spatial-temporal properties of the system - the behavior of one oscillator with respect to others - over time. The team - led by Nikhil Shukla, a UVA assistant professor with a joint appointment in electrical and computer engineering and materials science and engineering - envisions an alternative to digital computing and its rules-based operation: a platform that allows the natural physics of oscillators and their synchrony to do the computing. Engineering Technologies for a Sustainable and Connected WorldįerroCoDE Platform Will Efficiently Compute Solutions for Complex Problems By Karen Walker needs for such complex services as efficient manufacturing, drug discovery, supply chain logistics and wireless communication have outpaced the computing resources of today’s conventional computers - there are simply too many variables and constraints for a digital machine to calculate efficiently.Īcknowledging this, researchers at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and Pennsylvania State University are pursuing a dramatically different hardware platform that can generate solutions while satisfying all the constraints imposed by real-world users and conditions.
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