Designs for Ultra-Tiny, Special-Purpose
Nanoelectronic Circuits
November 2007
Shamik Das, The MITRE Corporation
Alexander J. Gates, The MITRE Corporation
Hassen A. Abdu, The MITRE Corporation
Garrett S. Rose, The MITRE Corporation
Carl A. Picconatto, The MITRE Corporation
James C. Ellenbogen, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
Designs and simulation results are given for two
small, special-purpose nanoelectronic circuits. The area of
special-purpose nanoelectronics has not been given much consideration
previously, though much effort has been devoted to
the development of general-purpose nanoelectronic systems, i.e.,
nanocomputers. This paper demonstrates via simulation that
the nanodevices and nanofabrication techniques developed recently
for general-purpose nanocomputers also might be applied
with substantial benefit to implement less complex nanocircuits
targeted at specific applications. Nanocircuits considered here
are a digital controller for the leg motion on an autonomous
millimeter-scale robot and an analog nanocircuit for amplification
of signals in a tiny optoelectronic sensor or receiver. Simulations
of both nanocircuit designs show significant improvement over
microelectronic designs in metrics such as footprint area and
power consumption. These improvements are obtained from designs
employing nanodevices and nanofabrication techniques that
already have been demonstrated experimentally. Thus, the results
presented here suggest that such improvements might be realized
in the near term for important, special-purpose applications.
Publication
IEEE Transactions On Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers, Vol. 54, No. 11, November 2007.
Additional Search Keywords
Design methodology, nanocircuit, nanocomputing,
nano-electronics, nanotechnology, simulation
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