{"id":14771,"date":"2015-06-11T06:34:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T13:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14771"},"modified":"2015-06-19T10:33:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T17:33:29","slug":"stanford-engineers-develop-a-computer-that-operates-on-water-droplets-by-bjorn-carey-stanford-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/stanford-engineers-develop-a-computer-that-operates-on-water-droplets-by-bjorn-carey-stanford-news","title":{"rendered":"Stanford engineers develop a computer that operates on water droplets \u2014 By Bjorn Carey | Stanford News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stanford engineers build a water-droplet based computer that runs like clockwork\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5WodTppevo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: left\">\u201d \u201cFollowing these rules, we\u2019ve demonstrated that we can make all the universal logic gates used in electronics, simply by changing the layout of the bars on the chip,\u201d said Katsikis. \u201cThe actual design space in our platform is incredibly rich. Give us any Boolean logic circuit in the world, and we can build it with these little magnetic droplets moving around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: left\">The current paper describes the fundamental operating regime of the system and demonstrates building blocks for synchronous logic gates, feedback and cascadability \u2013 hallmarks of scalable computation. A simple-state machine including 1-bit memory storage (known as \u201cflip-flop\u201d) is also demonstrated using the above basic building blocks. \u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2015\/june\/computer-water-drops-060815.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201d \u201cFollowing these rules, we\u2019ve demonstrated that we can make all the universal logic gates used in electronics, simply by changing the layout of the bars on the chip,\u201d said Katsikis. \u201cThe actual design space in our platform is incredibly rich. Give us any Boolean logic circuit in the world, and we can build it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1524,4,219,224,1508],"tags":[474],"class_list":["post-14771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-hardware","category-nanotechnology","category-physics","category-science","category-water","tag-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}