Overview
- Summarizes major milestones achieved in emerging FCN nanocomputing paradigms - at the device, circuit, architecture levels
- Identifies and highlights promising opportunities for FCN and critical challenges facing realization of FCN-based nanocomputers
- Contains extended and revised versions of the contributions by the participants of the 2013 Workshop on Field-Coupled Nanocomputing and invited chapters by experienced researchers who did not attend FCN'13
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8280)
Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Field-Coupled Nanocomputing Paradigms
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Circuits and Architectures
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Irreversibility and Dissipation
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About this book
Field-coupled nanocomputing (FCN) paradigms offer fundamentally new approaches to digital information processing that do not utilize transistors or require charge transport. Information transfer and computation are achieved in FCN via local field interactions between nanoscale building blocks that are organized in patterned arrays. Several FCN paradigms are currently under active investigation, including quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA), molecular quantum cellular automata (MQCA), nanomagnetic logic (NML), and atomic quantum cellular automata (AQCA). Each of these paradigms has a number of unique features that make it attractive as a candidate for post-CMOS nanocomputing, and each faces critical challenges to realization.
This State-of-the-Art-Survey provides a snapshot of the current developments and novel research directions in the area of FCN. The book is divided into five sections. The first part, Field-Coupled Nanocomputing Paradigms, provides valuable background information and perspectives on the QDCA, MQCA, NML, and AQCA paradigms and their evolution. The second section, Circuits and Architectures, addresses a wide variety of current research on FCN clocking strategies, logic synthesis, circuit design and test, logic-in-memory, hardware security, and architecture. The third section, Modeling and Simulation, considers the theoretical modeling and computer simulation of large FCN circuits, as well as the use of simulations for gleaning physical insight into elementary FCN building blocks. The fourth section, Irreversibility and Dissipation, considers the dissipative consequences of irreversible information loss in FCN circuits, their quantification, and their connection to circuit structure. The fifth section, The Road Ahead: Opportunities and Challenges, includes an edited transcript of the panel discussion that concluded the FCN 13 workshop.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Field-Coupled Nanocomputing
Book Subtitle: Paradigms, Progress, and Perspectives
Editors: Neal G. Anderson, Sanjukta Bhanja
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43722-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-43721-6Published: 26 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-43722-3Published: 31 May 2014
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 393
Number of Illustrations: 233 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theory of Computation, Computer Hardware, Simulation and Modeling