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Chapter 2 7 Alternative and Future Appendix E A Reed-Muller
Technologies .......... 290 Extraction Utility ..... 362
Reconfigurable Hardware and How to Become Famous .......... 377
Interconnect ......................... 290

Adaptive Computing Machines Appendix F Linear Feedback Shift
( ACMs) ................................ 300 Registers (LFSRs) ..... 381
Three-Dimensional Molded Many-to-One Implementations .. 381
Interconnect ......................... 303 More Taps Than You Know

Optical Interconnect .................. 305 What to Do With ................. 384
Optical Memories ........................ 3 15 One-to-Many Implementations .. 385

Protein Switches and Memories . 3 16 Seeding an LFSR ......................... 386
Electromagnetic Transistor FIFO Applications ...................... 386
Fabrication ............................ 320 Modifying LFSRs to Sequence

Heterojunction Transistors ......... 320 2n Values ............................... 389
Buckyballs and Nanotubes .......... 323 Accessing the Previous Value ..... 390
Diamond Substrates .................... 325 Encryption and Decryption

Chip-On-Chip (COC) ............... 328 Applications .......................... 391
Cyclic Redundancy Check
Conductive Adhesives ................ 3 29 Applications .......................... 391
Superconductors .......................... 33 1
Nanotechnology .......................... 333 Data Compression Applications . 393

Again, the Mind Boggles ............ 339 Built-in Self-Test Applications ... 395
Summary ..................................... 340 Pseudo-Random Number 397
Applications ..........................
Last But Not Least ...................... 400
Appendix A Assertion-Level
Logic ..................... 34 1 Appendix G Pass- Transistor
Logic ..................... 401
Appendix B Positive Logic versus
Negative Logic ........ 345 Appendix H No-Holds-Barred
Physical to Abstract Mapping Seafood Gumbo ....... 405
(NMOS Logic) ..................... 346
Physical to Abstract Mapping Abbreviations and Acronyms ...... 409
(PMOS Logic) ...................... 348 Glossary ................................. 412

Physical to Intermediate to Index ..................................... 446
Abstract Mapping ................. 349

Bonus Chapter: An Illustrated History
Appendix C Reed-Muller Logic .... 353 of Electronics and
Computing ... On CD-ROM
Appendix D Gray Codes ............. 358