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Modeling and Synthesis of mid- and long-term Future Nanotechnologies for Computer Arithmetic Circuits

Authors:
Bruno Kleinert
Dietmar Fey

Keywords: Nano computing, Memristor computing, Optical Computing, Quantum-dot Cellular Automata

Abstract:
The paper presents a comparison between two future nanotechnologies that are suitable for arithmetic computation and non-volatile memory. An automatic synthesis procedure of an optical computing design principle onto long-term future Quantom-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is presented. The goal of this work is to provide a contribution for the elimination of the lack of automatic design procedures for regular build-up QCA arithmetic circuits. A SystemC model of the mid-term future memristor technology is presented, to demonstrate the benefit in space efficiency as a four-value logic memory in a fast signed digit (SD) adder for a hardware implementation of the coordinate rotation digital computer (CORDIC) algorithm. A comparison between QCA and memristor technology presents the advantages of memristors in multi-value logic environments. In this sense, this work is a contribution to ease the automatic synthesis and choice of future nanotechnologies for arithmetic circuits.

Pages: 82 to 91

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2013. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2013

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ISSN: 1942-261x