A QCA implementation of a configurable logic block for an FPGA

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGA's, ReConFig 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 132-141

  Lantz, Timothy ^a   Peskin, Eric ^a  

^a Rochester Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; CONFIGURABLE LOGIC BLOCK (CLB); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOOK UP TABLE (LUT); MEMORY DESIGNS; OUTPUT CIRCUITS; PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; PROGRAMMABLE LOGICS; QUANTUM DOT CELLULAR AUTOMATA (QCA); RE CONFIGURABLE COMPUTING (RCC); SINGLE LAYERS;

AUTOMATA THEORY; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; FUZZY LOGIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEQUENTIAL MACHINES; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TABLE LOOKUP; TECHNOLOGY;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 46449138180     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RECONF.2006.307763     Document Type: Conference Paper

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