Comments on: Sun chips away at wireless chip connections

Technique to allow chips to communicate without circuit boards or wires could greatly alter computer design.

Mis-alignment Solution

Why not do like wireless communications devices do now, only in parrallel, rather than serial.

In order to make sure wireless communications devices are talking to the right components, a unique signal is sent out in a serial fashion, like a hand shake.

Well, why not have these wireless chips handshake in a fashion.

Set up a unique signature such as:

101100dddddddd001101

where the 1's represent always on communication links, 0's always off, and d's are your data lines.

In this fashion, with a handful of transistors sitting inbetween the communications portion of the chip, you could reroute mis-aligned connections to the correct internal wires, on the fly. That means you could shake or move the chip while it's working, at total distance of the signature in either direction, and within the latency delay of the translation circuit, have the signal remain accurate.

The only additional over head is the signature communication connectors, and if this technology really has the higher volume per area, then why not use a few to solve this simple problem?

Mis-alignment Vertical

I understand, my previous post only solves for the horizontal misalignment problem, not the vertical, but another idea might solve both, and it's even more simple.

Why not, rather than tiles that lay side by side, make chips like legos, but better, with interlocking connectors that grip from both directions. This would hold them in a tighter grip, and should prevent the stress from heat or vibration from moving them beyond the range of communication.