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EngineeringComputer EngineeringElectrical EngineeringComputer ArchitectureLow-power DesignMicroelectronicsCmos Circuit DesignDevice ModelingDevice ReliabilityDevice SimulationLow-power Digital Circuit DesignPower-aware DesignEnergy-efficient Digital CircuitsLow-power Circuit DesignLow-power Cmos DesignLow-power System DesignPower Modeling And EstimationProbabilistic Analysis Of AlgorithmsProbabilistic CircuitsUltra-low-power Cmos
“By 2010, the individual transistors in the circuits will be turned on or off by the addition or the removal of only eight electrons on the gate of a transistor, compared to about 1000 electrons today. The statistics of small numbers will become significant, and the ability to distinguish between zero and one in a digital circuit will be severely compromised.” − J. Birnbaum and R. S. Williams [1] 1.