Lecture by Prof. Bernd Ulmann on Thursday. This lecture had been planned for 19.03.2020, 7pm. Location: Meeting Room (Konferenzraum) 3 of the Data Center. The lecture will be delayed. We shall post information about the new date here as soon as possible.
As classic stored-program digital computers are reaching physical and practical limits with respect to clock frequency, integration density, and suffer from problems like Amdahl's law, unconventional approaches to high-speed and/or high-energy-efficient computing can offer a path to more computing power at lower power consumption.One of these approaches are analog computers which solve problems by means of analog electronic models of the underlying mathematical equations. Largely forgotten since the late 1970s, analog computers are about to return in the form of fully reconfigurable integrated circuits. Coupling these with traditional digital computers yields so-called hybrid computers which combine the best of two worlds, the programmability and vast program libraries available for digital computers as well as the high performance and low power consumption of analog computers.
This talk briefly covers the history of analog computing, gives examples of current applications and future developments.
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