Bio-nano technology program at JPL
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Temperature tolerant electronics and long life survivability are key capabilities required for future NASA/JPL missions. Current approaches to electronics for extreme environments focus on component level robustness and hardening. Compensation techniques, e.g., as offered by bias cancellation circuits, have also been employed. This paper presents a novel approach, based on evolvable hardware technology, which allows adaptive in situ circuit redesign/reconfiguration during the operation in the environment. This technology would complement material/device advancements and bring closer the success of missions in harsh environments. Additional information is contained in the original extended abstract.
In this paper, we present novel parallel architectures based on Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) hardware.