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 …

Versatile Signal Distribution Networks for Scalable Placement and Routing of Field-coupled Nanocomputing Technologies

M Walter, B Hien, R Wille - 2023 IEEE Computer Society Annual …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Field-coupled Nanocomputing (FCN) is a promising beyond-CMOS technology that
leverages physical field repulsion instead of electrical current flow to transmit information …

An extensible architecture of 32-bit ALU for high-speed computing in QCA technology

N Patidar, N Gupta - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2022 - Springer
The technological advancements in the semiconductor industry have significantly improved
over the years. However, Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology …

A* is Born: Efficient and Scalable Physical Design for Field-coupled Nanocomputing

S Hofmann, M Walter, R Wille - 2024 IEEE 24th International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Field-coupled Nanocomputing (FCN) has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional
CMOS technology, driven by recent advancements in atomic-scale logic gate fabrication and …

Efficient Multi-Path Signal Routing for Field-coupled Nanotechnologies

M Walter, R Wille - Proceedings of the 17th ACM International …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Establishing itself among the vanguard of beyond-CMOS candidates, Field-coupled
Nanocomputing (FCN) has advanced in recent times due to fabrication breakthroughs of …

Ending the Tyranny of the Clock: SAT-Based Clock Number Assignment for Field-Coupled Nanotechnologies

M Walter, J Drewniok, R Wille - 2024 IEEE 24th International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an algorithm for clock num-ber assignment in the physical design
process of Field-coupled Nanocomputing (FCN), a set of promising beyond-CMOS tech …

Conway's game of life in quantum-dot cellular automata

O Liolis, GC Sirakoulis, A Adamatzky - Microelectronics Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) technology has been considered as one
promising solution to deal with the beyond Moore's law and after von Neumann's computing …

Unfolding Potential and Challenges in Molecular Field-Coupled Nanocomputing

R Listo, F Mo, F Ravera, Y Ardesi, M Vacca… - Nano …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Molecular Field-Coupled Nanocomputing (MolFCN) represents a revolutionary
approach to computational technology, exploiting single molecules for encoding and …

Synchronization in quantum-dot cellular automata circuits and systems

O Liolis, VA Mardiris, GC Sirakoulis… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Signal synchronization of large scale Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) circuits is one
of the most complex QCA design challenges. More specifically, the QCA circuits …

Design automation for field-coupled nanotechnologies

M Walter, R Drechsler - 2020 IEEE computer society annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Circuits based on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductors (CMOS) enabled the digital
revolution and still provide the basis for almost all computational devices to this date …