ToPoliNano and fiction: Design Tools for Field-coupled Nanocomputing
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD)
Original Kurzfassung:
Field-coupled Nanocomputing (FCN) is a computing
concept with several promising post-CMOS candidate implementations
that offer tremendously low power dissipation and
highest processing performance at the same time. Two of the
manifold physical implementations are Quantum-dot Cellular
Automata (QCA) and Nanomagnet Logic (NML). Both inherently
come with domain-specific properties and design constraints that
render established conventional design algorithms inapplicable.
Accordingly, dedicated design tools for those technologies are
required. This paper provides an overview of two leading
examples of such tools, namely fiction and ToPoliNano. Both tools
provide effective methods that cover aspects such as placement,
routing, clocking, design rule checking, verification, and logical
as well as physical simulation. By this, both freely available tools
provide platforms for future research in the FCN domain.
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