No abstract

The Nanomagnetic Logic (NML) is a promising new technology that can build low-power devices at room temperature. Furthermore, this technology allows mixing logic and memory on the same device. The creation of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and flows is an essential step towards developing NML for integrated designs. There is plenty of room for creating new EDA methodologies for this kind of emerging nanotechnologies since the scarce number of works in this field. Standard cells is an important step in this context since they strongly relate to the routing and placement algorithms. This work presents NMLib, an NML cell library developed for the NMLSim 2.0 simulator. In contrast to CMOS, the NML features require logic cells and interconnection cells, since all circuit is developed using the same building block. Moreover, we present a full-adder, and a ripple carry adder circuit designs using NMLib to demonstrate NMLib feasibility.

After the continuous development of CMOS technology driven by transistor miniaturization and Moore’s law, the scientific community is witnessing the exploration of emerging paradigms to find new ways to develop computational systems. This paper presents critical concepts for understanding some of these new nanocomputing technologies, specifically field-coupled, quantum-dot cellular automata, nanomagnetic logic, silicon dangling bounds, photonic crystal logic, and DNA computing. Next, it shows emerging design automation tools for each of these areas and how they can be applied to support the development of new computing systems. The level of maturity and production speed of solutions achieved by conventional silicon technology thanks to very efficient electronic design automation (EDA) is remarkable. However, here we are dealing with technologies still in their infancy. Therefore, improvements in design automation tools are undoubtedly a way to accelerate the growth of new substrate alternatives and modern applications.

No abstract

No abstract