An NCL-HDL snake-clock-based magnetic QCA architecture

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1141-1149

  Graziano, Mariagrazia ^a   Vacca, Marco ^a   Chiolerio, Alessandro ^a   Zamboni, Maurizio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Globally synchronous locally asynchronous; magnetic circuits; magnetic simulation; null convention logic (NCL); quantum dot cellular automata (QCA); Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL) model

Indexed keywords

GLOBALLY SYNCHRONOUS LOCALLY ASYNCHRONOUS; MAGNETIC SIMULATION; NULL CONVENTION LOGIC (NCL); QUANTUM-DOT CELLULAR AUTOMATA; VERY-HIGH-SPEED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE (VHDL) MODEL;

ARCHITECTURE; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; CLOCKS; DIFFERENTIATING CIRCUITS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC LOGIC DEVICES; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEQUENTIAL MACHINES; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES;

EID: 80052203857     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2011.2118229     Document Type: Article

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