Performance and energy impact of locally controlled NML circuits

ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Dingler, Aaron ^a   Niemier, Michael T ^a   Hu, Xiaobo Sharon ^a   Lent, Evan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Nanomagnet logic; Nanotechnology; Performance; Quantum dot cellular automata

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LOGIC; DRIVE CIRCUITRY; ENERGY DELAY PRODUCT; ENERGY IMPACT; MULTIPHASE CLOCK; NANOMAGNET LOGIC; NANOMAGNETS; PERFORMANCE; QUANTUM-DOT CELLULAR AUTOMATA; SUBTHRESHOLD CMOS;

AUTOMATA THEORY; BENCHMARKING; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; NANOMAGNETICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

LOGIC CIRCUITS;

EID: 79951522646     PISSN: 15504832     EISSN: 15504840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1899390.1899392     Document Type: Conference Paper

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