Tile-Based QCA Design Using Majority-Like Logic Primitives

ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 163-185

  Huang, J ^a   Momenzadeh, M ^a   Schiano, L ^a   Ottavi, M ^a   Lombardi, F ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; emerging technologies; processing by wire; QCA

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249889139     PISSN: 15504832     EISSN: 15504840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1116696.1116697     Document Type: Article

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