Atomically precise manufacturing of silicon electronics

J Pitters, J Croshaw, R Achal, L Livadaru, S Ng… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Atomically precise manufacturing (APM) is a key technique that involves the direct control of
atoms in order to manufacture products or components of products. It has been developed …

An energy-aware model for the logic synthesis of quantum-dot cellular automata

FS Torres, R Wille, P Niemann… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are an emerging field-coupled nanotechnology with
remarkable performance and energy efficiency. In order to enable the exploration of this …

Hexagons are the bestagons: design automation for silicon dangling bond logic

M Walter, SSH Ng, K Walus, R Wille - Proceedings of the 59th ACM/IEEE …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Field-coupled Nanocomputing (FCN) defines a class of post-CMOS nanotechnologies that
promises compact layouts, low power operation, and high clock rates. Recent breakthroughs …

Scalable Physical Design for Silicon Dangling Bond Logic: How a 45° Turn Prevents the Reinvention of the Wheel

S Hofmann, M Walter, R Wille - 2023 IEEE 23rd International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the ever-increasing demands of computing, post-CMOS technologies are sought after.
Field-coupled Nanocomputing (FCN), which relies on physical field repulsion, is a class of …

The Need for Speed: Efficient Exact Simulation of Silicon Dangling Bond Logic

J Drewniok, M Walter, R Wille - 2024 29th Asia and South …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Silicon Dangling Bond (SiDB) logic platform, an emerging computational beyond-CMOS
nanotechnology, is a promising competitor due to its ability to achieve integration density …

Novel ultra-energy-efficient reversible designs of sequential logic quantum-dot cellular automata flip-flop circuits

M Alharbi, G Edwards, R Stocker - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2023 - Springer
Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is a technological approach to implement digital
circuits with exceptionally high integration density, high switching frequency, and low energy …

Late Breaking Results From Hybrid Design Automation for Field-coupled Nanotechnologies

S Hofmann, M Walter, L Servadei… - 2023 60th ACM/IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent breakthroughs in atomically precise manufacturing are paving the way for Field-
coupled Nanocomputing (FCN) to become a real-world post-CMOS technology. This drives …

Scalable design for field-coupled nanocomputing circuits

M Walter, R Wille, FS Torres, D Große… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Field-coupled Nanocomputing (FCN) technologies are considered as a solution to
overcome physical boundaries of conventional CMOS approaches. But despite ground …

fiction: An open source framework for the design of field-coupled nanocomputing circuits

M Walter, R Wille, FS Torres, D Große… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
As a class of emerging post-CMOS technologies, Field-coupled Nanocomputing (FCN)
devices promise computation with tremendously low energy dissipation. Even though …

Thinking Outside the Clock: Physical Design for Field-coupled Nanocomputing with Deep Reinforcement Learning

S Hofmann, M Walter, L Servadei… - 2024 25th International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in atom-scale manufacturing are paving the way toward the emergence of
Field-coupled Nanocomputing (FCN) as a viable real-world post-CMOS technology. Current …