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N3asics: Designing Nanofabrics With Fine-Grained Cmos Integration, Pavan Panchapakeshan
N3asics: Designing Nanofabrics With Fine-Grained Cmos Integration, Pavan Panchapakeshan
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Nanoscale-computing fabrics based on novel materials such as semiconductor nanowires, carbon nanotubes, graphene, etc. have been proposed in recent years. These fabrics employ unconventional manufacturing techniques like Nano-imprint lithography or Super-lattice Nanowire Pattern Transfer to produce ultra-dense nano-structures. However, one key challenge that has received limited attention is the interfacing of unconventional/self-assembly based approaches with conventional CMOS manufacturing to build integrated systems.
We propose a novel nanofabric approach that mixes unconventional nanomanufacturing with CMOS manufacturing flow and design rules to build a reliable nanowire-CMOS 3-D integrated fabric called N3ASICs with no new manufacturing constraints. In N3ASICs …
Towards Logic Functions As The Device Using Spin Wave Functions Nanofabric, Prasad Shabadi
Towards Logic Functions As The Device Using Spin Wave Functions Nanofabric, Prasad Shabadi
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
As CMOS technology scaling is fast approaching its fundamental limits, several new nano-electronic devices have been proposed as possible alternatives to MOSFETs. Research on emerging devices mainly focusses on improving the intrinsic characteristics of these single devices keeping the overall integration approach fairly conventional. However, due to high logic complexity and wiring requirements, the overall system-level power, performance and area do not scale proportional to that of individual devices.
Thereby, we propose a fundamental shift in mindset, to make the devices themselves more functional than simple switches. Our goal in this thesis is to develop a new nanoscale fabric paradigm …