Gates: The fundamental building blocks
At the most fundamental level, computers are an assembly of gates that are used to perform the basic operations required to execute a program. For problems in the probability domain, even the values used in these most basic operations are not constrained to be either a 0 or a 1. Instead, the basic gates must determine the probability that a bit is a 1, or the probability that it is a 0. Lyric’s gates are designed to model relationships between probabilities natively in the device physics. For this reason, Lyric can perform mathematical operations in the probability domain with just a handful of transistors – creating power and area savings of more than 10X over traditional implementations. |
