WSI Distributed Logic Memories

Abstract

Wafer-Scale Intearation (WSI) offers the possibility of departing from the von Naumann computer architecture and alleviating its implementation problems. By interconnecting the good chips on an undiced wafer, WSI provides a multiplicity of processing elements and bypasses the expensive stages of chip and printed circuit board manufacture. Whereas VLSI offers low-cost components at the sub-system level, WSI offers low-cost computer systems . Hence, traditional market pressures deter the speculative development of a range of VLSI chips in order to launch a radically new computer structure. However, WSI offers the integration of a new architecture in a single development.