Reconfigurable nanoscale logic cells : a comparison study

Author

Gaillardon, Pierre Emmanuel ; Clermidy, Fabien ; Connor, Ian O. ; Daviot, Renaud

Author_Institution

LETI, CEA, Grenoble, France

fYear

2009

fDate

13-16 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

483

Lastpage

486

Abstract

This paper presents a new cell family designed to perform reconfigurable operations in nanometric systems. Using new properties given by emerging devices, we can create cells based on various improvement objectives, such as increasing density or elementary device functionality. Therefore, a reconfigurable logic cell using high-density emerging technology is able to achieve an area improvement of over two orders of magnitude compared to an advanced CMOS design (projected 22 nm gate length node), whereas solutions based on carbon electronics improve drastically power characteristics.

Keywords

CMOS logic circuits; integrated circuit design; nanoelectronics; advanced CMOS design; carbon electronics; elementary device functionality; high-density emerging technology; nanometric systems; power characteristics; reconfigurable nanoscale logic cells; reconfigurable operations; CMOS logic circuits; CMOS technology; Chemical elements; Logic design; Logic devices; Logic functions; Logic programming; Nanowires; Programmable logic arrays; Reconfigurable logic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, 2009. ICECS 2009. 16th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yasmine Hammamet

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5090-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5091-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2009.5410887

Filename

5410887