Hybrid CMOS/nanoelectronic circuits, combining CMOS chips with simple nanoelectronic crossbar add-ons, may extend the exponential Moore-Law progress of microelectronics beyond the 10-nm frontier. This paper reviews the development of neuromorphic networks (“CrossNets”) based on this prospective technology. In these networks, the neural cell bodies (“somas”) are implemented in the CMOS subsystem...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNFETs) have demonstrated extraordinary properties and are widely expected to be the building blocks of next generation VLSI circuits. This chapter presents (1) the first purely CNT and CNFET based nanoarchitecture, (2) an adaptive configuration methodology for nanoelectronic design based on the CNT nano-architecture, and (3)...

Two-dimensional arrays of vertical quantum wire Esaki tunnel diodes, laterally connected to their nearest neighbors by resistive/capacitive connections, constitute a powerful and versatile neuromorphic architecture that can function as classical Boolean logic circuits, associative memory, image processors, and combinatorial optimizers. In this paper, we discuss the basic philosophy behind adopt...

This paper describes the design of arithmetic circuits based on hybrid integrated resonant tunneling diodes and heterostructure eld-e ect transistors. The key components are depth-2 parallel counters consisting of multiple terminal threshold gates. In particular, we propose a novel parallel addition scheme by combining threshold logic and systolic VLSI-algorithms for bit-level computations. The...

Implementation of complex computer circuits assembled from the bottom up and integrated on the nanometer scale has long been a goal of electronics research. It requires a design and fabrication strategy that can address individual nanometer-scale electronic devices, while enabling large-scale assembly of those devices into highly organized, integrated computational circuits. We describe how suc...

Engineering programs that have introduced nanotechnology into their curriculum typically add material into core classes or have added a separate set of nanotechnology courses. Increasing the number of courses can be a challenge for colleges with limited resources and faculty and it is not easy to make significant changes to the curriculum all in one step. This paper looks at an alternative that...

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a possible future nanoelectronic computing technology, based on cells of coupled quantum dots. The QCA cells have features on the very low nanometer scale, much smaller than the present state of art size of the smallest transistor. This paper presents design and layout of novel XOR gate implementations with minimum complexity and cell count in comparison w...

Continuing miniaturisation makes nanoelectronic circuits and systems increasingly susceptible against external and intrinsic parasitic effects and ageing processes. Applications such as automotive electronics, which make high demands on systems’ immunity and longevity, impose the need to design in robustness to integrated circuits and systems. To support this with appropriate electronic design ...