ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the axon-inspired communication, analyzing the dense and locally connected arrays of voltage-gated ion channels. It aims to identify the practical limits for ultra-low power/energy communications when using electronic principles. The latest International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors has identified power consumption as a grand challenge for nanoelectronics. Single-electron technology (SET) is considered to be the ultimate low-power nanoelectronic technology. SETs are quantum-based devices relying on a Coulomb blockade. Mawahib Hussein Sulieman and Valeriu Beiu have successfully compared different SET-based full adders, including not only the delay and design complexity but also the sensitivity to variations using P. SIMON and MATLAB. The chapter considers SET-based gates as the elementary building blocks for emulating axon-inspired locally connected arrays of voltage-gated ion channels. The resulting arrays of the voltage-gated ion channels will be simulated at the logical level using SETs.
