HDLQ: A HDL environment for QCA design

ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 243-261

  Ottavi, Marco ^a,c   Schiano, Luca ^a,c   Lombardi, Fabrizio ^a,c   Tougaw, Douglas ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD; Fault injection; HDL; QCA

Indexed keywords

FAULT INJECTION; MEMORY CIRCUITS; QUANTUM DOT CELLULAR AUTOMATA (QCA);

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC WIRE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

AUTOMATA THEORY;

EID: 33846657983     PISSN: 15504832     EISSN: 15504840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1216396.1216397     Document Type: Article

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