From biochips to quantum circuits: Computer-aided design for emerging technologies

Robert Wille, Bing Li, Ulf Schlichtmann, Rolf Drechsler

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Abstract

While previous decades have witnessed impressive accomplishments in the design and realization of conventional computing devices, physical boundaries and cost restrictions led to an increasing interest in alternative technologies (often referred to as Beyond CMOS or More than Moore technologies). In addition, these accomplishments also triggered many "complementary" applications and led to technologies providing an additional value to the conventional logic (often referred to as More than Moore). This led to a variety of emerging technologies such as Quantum Computation, Optical Circuits, or Microfluidic Biochips out of which many are considered very promising and some even entered the market recently. This poses new challenges to researchers and engineers working in computer-aided design. In this tutorial paper, we provide an overview on the main concepts of selected emerging technologies as well as the resulting design methods. To this end, we review the respective technological background and introduce the correspondingly used circuit models. Based on that, we show how computer-aided design has to adapt the common design tasks and review recently proposed solutions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781450344661
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Nov 2016
Event35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD 2016 - Austin, United States
Duration: 7 Nov 201610 Nov 2016

Publication series

NameIEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, ICCAD
Volume07-10-November-2016
ISSN (Print)1092-3152

Conference

Conference35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period7/11/1610/11/16

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