A serial memory by quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA)

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 606-618

  Vankamamidi, Vamsi ^a   Ottavi, Marco ^b   Lombardi, Fabrizio ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging technologies; Memory architecture; QCA

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKS; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; HARDWARE COMPLEXITY; HIGH DENSITIES; INPUT/OUTPUT; LOW-POWER; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MEMORY CELLS; NEW DEVICES; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; QCA; QUANTUM-DOT CELLULAR AUTOMATON; SERIAL MEMORIES; STORAGE LOOPS; WRITE OPERATIONS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; DECODING; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEQUENTIAL MACHINES; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 64349094834     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2007.70831     Document Type: Article

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