Conservative QCA gate (CQCA) for designing concurrently testable molecular QCA circuits

Proceedings: 22nd International Conference on VLSI Design - Held Jointly with 7th International Conference on Embedded Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 511-516

  Thapliyal, Himanshu ^a   Ranganathan, Nagarajan ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOGIC GATES;

COMBINATIONAL FUNCTIONS; CONSERVATIVE LOGIC; ERROR RATES; FAULT PATTERNS; FREDKIN GATES; INPUT VECTORS; MAJORITY VOTERS; MAJORITY VOTING; NANOCIRCUITS; NOVEL METHODS; OUTPUT VECTORS; PARITY PRESERVING; TRANSIENT FAULTS;

LOGIC CIRCUITS;

EID: 62949167248     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLSI.Design.2009.75     Document Type: Conference Paper

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