The CMOS/nano interface from a circuits perspective
نویسندگان
چکیده
We consider a circuit paradigm that combines conventional silicon microelectronics with emerging self-assembled nanoelectronics. Peripheral CMOS circuitry is used to drive the input signals and restore the output signals of nanoscale crossbar structures. We address a number of issues dealing with interfacing CMOS and nanoelectronics. Furthermore, we consider important metrics, such as, delay, area, and energy for a full-adder implemented in the mixed circuit paradigm.
منابع مشابه
Whole-Chip ESD Protection Strategy for CMOS Integrated Circuits in Nanotechnology
Abstract On-chip electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuits had been built in IC chips to protect the devices and circuits against ESD damage. But, ESD protection circuits constructed with the scaled-down CMOS devices are very weak to ESD stress. Therefore, novel ESD protection solutions must be developed to overcome this reliability challenge for integrated circuits fabricated in the na...
متن کاملNano Scale Autonomous Error-Tolerant (AET) Cellular Network
In this paper, the nano-CMOS hybrid Autonomous Error-Tolerant (AET) cellular network architecture, which integrates today’s mature CMOS technology with emerging nanotechnology, is proposed. Within the cellular network, each AET cell contains a nanocore, CMOS cell peripherals and their interface circuits. The overall network is homogenous. These imply strict constraints for intercellular connect...
متن کاملHybrid CMOS/Nanodevice Circuits with Tightly Integrated Memory and Logic Functionality
We propose hybrid CMOS/nanodevice circuits which have potentials to perform massively parallel high throughput computations and in particular suitable for pattern matching. The performance advantage of novel circuits is mainly due to very high density of nanoscale devices and very tight and synergetic integration of memory and logic functionalities. The tight integration is enabled by high comm...
متن کاملDesign and Test of New Robust QCA Sequential Circuits
One of the several promising new technologies for computing at nano-scale is quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA). In this paper, new designs for different QCA sequential circuits are presented. Using an efficient QCA D flip-flop (DFF) architecture, a 5-bit counter, a novel single edge generator (SEG) and a divide-by-2 counter are implemented. Also, some types of oscillators, a new edge-t...
متن کاملDesign of low power random number generators for quantum-dot cellular automata
Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are a promising nanotechnology to implement digital circuits at the nanoscale. Devices based on QCA have the advantages of faster speed, lower power consumption, and greatly reduced sizes. In this paper, we are presented the circuits, which generate random numbers in QCA. Random numbers have many uses in science, art, statistics, cryptography, gaming, gambli...
متن کامل