Scalable design for field-coupled nanocomputing circuits

Marcel Walter, Robert Wille, Frank Sill Torres, Daniel Große, Rolf Drechsler

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Abstract

Field-coupled Nanocomputing (FCN) technologies are considered as a solution to overcome physical boundaries of conventional CMOS approaches. But despite ground breaking advances regarding their physical implementation as e. g. Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA), Nanomagnet Logic (NML), and many more, there is an unsettling lack of methods for large-scale design automation of FCN circuits. In fact, design automation for this class of technologies still is in its infancy - heavily relying either on manual labor or automatic methods which are applicable for rather small functionality only. This work presents a design method which - for the first time - allows for the scalable design of FCN circuits that satisfy dedicated constraints of these technologies. The proposed scheme is capable of handling around 40 000 gates within seconds while the current state-of-the-art takes hours to handle around 20 gates. This is confirmed by experimental results on the layout level for various established benchmarks libraries.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationASP-DAC 2019 - 24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages197-202
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450360074
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Jan 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASPDAC 2019 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 21 Jan 201924 Jan 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC

Conference

Conference24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASPDAC 2019
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period21/01/1924/01/19

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