Literally Embedded Processors
William Butera and V. Michael Bove, Jr.
MIT Media Laboratory
Proc. SPIE Media Processors 2001, v. 4313, 2001.
We propose a robust programming model for dense ensembles of ultra
miniaturized computing nodes which are deployed in bulk fashion,
e.g. embedded into building materials. We sketch a hardware reference
model as an initial guide to the application domain, then we describe
a programming model based on mobile code fragments which self assemble
into larger structures. We outline a simple representative
application that we have developed and tested on a system simulator.