In a recent article, Nature Communications 7 (2016) 12068, the authors claimed that they demonstrated sub-kT energy dissipation at elementary logic operations. However, the argumentation is invalid because it neglects the dominant source of energy dissipation, namely, the charging energy of the capacitance of the input electrode, which totally dissipates during the full (0-1-0) cycle of logic v...

Organizational techniques for reducing energy dissipation in on–chip processor caches as well as off–chip caches have been observed to provide substantial energy savings in a technology independent manner. We propose and evaluate the use of block buffering using multiple block buffers, subbanking and bit line isolation to reduce the power dissipation within on–chip caches for superscalar CPUs. ...

The dissipation range energy balance of the direct interaction approximation is applied to rotating turbulence when rotation effects persist well into the dissipation range. Assuming that RoRe << 1 and that three-wave interactions are dominant, the dissipation range is found to be concentrated in the wavevector plane perpendicular to the rotation axis. This conclusion is consistent with previou...

We introduce information-theoretic erasure based on Shannon’s binary channel formula. It is pointed out that this type of erasure is a natural energy-dissipation-free way in which information is lost in double-potential-well memories, and it may be the reason why the brain can forget things effortlessly. We also demonstrate a new non-volatile, charge-based memory scheme wherein the erasure can ...

The dissipation rate of a Ncwtonian fluid with constant shear viscosity can be shown to include three constituents: dilatation, vorticity, and surface strain. The last one is found to make no contributions to the change of kinetic energy. These dissipation constituents are used to identify typical compact turbulent flow structures at high Reynolds numbers. The incompressible version of the simp...

NASA/TM—2013-217850 1 ∆t∗ nondimensional time step, ∆t/(L/V0) kinetic energy dissipation rate 1 kinetic energy dissipation rate computed from deviatoric strain rate 3 kinetic energy dissipation rate computed from pressure dilatation κ angular wave number μ kinematic viscosity ν spectroscopic wave number ωi vorticity vector Ω volume ρ density σ filter damping coefficient τij stress tensor ζ enst...

The results showed that (1) the ultimate shear deformation of the rubber bearings with two fixed end plates reached 300% to 400% of the rubber layer thickness. The damage was mainly focused on the rubber layer fracture. The energy dissipation capacity of the bearings was weak, and the hysteresis curve presented a narrow zonal shape. (2) The rubber bearings with unilateral friction sliding had a...

The rate of viscous energy dissipation in a shear layer of incompressible Newtonian fluid with injection and suction is studied by means of exact solutions, nonlinear and linearized stability theory, and rigorous upper bounds. For large enough values of the injection angle a steady laminar flow is nonlinearly stable for all Reynolds numbers, while for small but nonzero angles the laminar flow i...