Architectural tradeoffs for biodegradable computing

Abstract

Organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) have attracted increased attention because of the possibility to produce environmentally friendly low-cost, lightweight, flexible, and even biodegradable devices. With an increasing number of complex applications being proposed for organic and biodegradable semiconductors, the need for computation horsepower also rises. However, due to the process characteristic differences, direct adaptation of silicon-based circuit designs and traditional computer architecture wisdom is not applicable.