PCMOS

{{Short description|Semiconductor manufacturing technology}}

Probabilistic complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (PCMOS) is a semiconductor manufacturing technology invented by Pr. Krishna Palem of Rice University and Director of NTU's Institute for Sustainable Nanoelectronics (ISNE). The technology hopes to compete against current CMOS technology. Proponents claim it uses one thirtieth as much electricity while running seven times faster than the current fastest technology.{{cite web |url=http://www.physorg.com/news153398964.html |title=Scientists develop revolutionary microchip that uses 30 times less energy |year=2009 |publisher=Phys.org}}{{cite web |url=http://www.rice.edu/nationalmedia/news2009-02-08-pcmos.shtml |title=Revolutionary microchip uses 30 times less power |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218194953/http://www.rice.edu/nationalmedia/news2009-02-08-pcmos.shtml |archive-date=2012-02-18 |publisher=Rice University}}{{cite web |url=http://www.infoworld.com/t/tech-industry-analysis/top-underreported-tech-stories-2009-455?page=0,5 |title=The top underreported tech stories of 2009 |publisher=InfoWorld |date=28 December 2009}}

PCMOS-based system on a chip architectures were shown to be gains that are as high as a substantial multiplicative factor of 560 when compared to a competing energy-efficient CMOS based realization on applications based on probabilistic algorithms such as hyper-encryption, bayesian networks, random neural networks and probabilistic cellular automata.{{Cite conference |title=Ultra Efficient Embedded SOC Architectures based on Probabilistic CMOS (PCMOS) Technology |author1=Lakshmi N. Chakrapani |author2=Bilge E. S. Akgul |author3=Suresh Cheemalavagu |author4=Pinar Korkmaz |author5=Krishna V. Palem |author6=Balasubramanian Seshasayee |conference=Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2006 |isbn=3-9810801-1-4 |doi=10.1109/DATE.2006.243978 |citeseerx=10.1.1.130.7547 }}