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The Circuit Paid for Every Bit It Erased

Renesis converts ordinary netlists into verified energy-recovery circuits and rejects rewrites that worsen either reported energy table.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-19-027
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Summary

Renesis converts ordinary netlists into verified energy-recovery circuits and rejects rewrites that worsen either reported energy table.

The open-source synthesis tool tracks switching, erasure and observability while mapping a logically reversible result to one of eight adiabatic circuit families. Every transformation is equivalence-checked and must improve at least one cost table without worsening the other. Fifteen of nineteen held-out circuits improved, with a best-arm median energy of 0.91 times the default. The accounting is circuit-level and technology-specific, not a claim that logical reversibility alone removes thermodynamic cost.

Why it matters

Renesis converts ordinary netlists into verified energy-recovery circuits and rejects rewrites that worsen either reported energy table.

Limits and context

  • The accounting is circuit-level and technology-specific, not a claim that logical reversibility alone removes thermodynamic cost.

Key claims

  1. Renesis converts ordinary netlists into verified energy-recovery circuits and rejects rewrites that worsen either reported energy table.

    Qualification: The accounting is circuit-level and technology-specific, not a claim that logical reversibility alone removes thermodynamic cost.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-19-016

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.17139arXiv · primary research

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