A fine electrode-forming masking member for forming fine gate electrodes, which can decrease gate length of a gate electrode of a field effect transistor. The system includes a plurality of stacked repeaters, a stack bus linking the repeaters, and a single clock to which the plurality of repeaters is synchronized. A second heat pipe has an evaporator. A preferred embodiment of the reconfigurable bridge includes a plurality of reconfigurable datapath units that provide ancillary functions to facilitate the processing and pre-processing of data items as they are transferred among registers.