Special Session: Exploring the Ultimate Limits of Adiabatic Circuits Michael P. Frank Robert W. Brocato Thomas M. Conte Alexander H. Hsia Cognitive & Emerging RF Microsystems Dept. Schools of Computer Science and Sandia National Laboratories Computing Dept. Sandia National Laboratories Electrical & Computer Eng. Albuquerque, NM, USA Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, NM, USA Georgia Institute of Technology Albuquerque, NM, USA orcid:0000-0001-9751-1234 Atlanta, GA, USA Requiescat in pace
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[email protected] Abstract—The field of adiabatic circuits is rooted in electronics I. INTRODUCTION know-how stretching all the way back to the 1960s and has poten- tial applications in vastly increasing the energy efficiency of far- In 1961, Rolf Landauer of IBM observed that there is a fun- future computing. But now, the field is experiencing an increased damental physical limit to the energy efficiency of logically ir- level of attention in part due to its potential to reduce the vulnera- reversible computational operations, meaning, those that lose bility of systems