Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) and Low Power Application
A special issue of Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (ISSN 2079-9268).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2018) | Viewed by 32382
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Interests: digital electronics; QCA circuits; FPGA; embedded systems; deep learning
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Dear Colleagues,
As transistors have decreased in size, more and more of them have been accommodated in a single die, thus, increasing chip computational capabilities. However, traditional transistors cannot get much smaller than their current size, which causes a large impact on the speed performance and power consumption of future designs. The challenges created by this trend could be partially met by innovative technologies, proposed as alternatives to the classic CMOS. Among them, quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is one of the most promising solutions to design ultra low-power and very high speed digital circuits. QCA technology offers a revolutionary approach to computing at the nano-level. What sets it apart is that it exploits, rather than treating as nuisance properties, the inevitable nano-level issue of device to device interaction at nano-scales to perform computing. In this context, specialized designs have been finding increasing applicationw. This Special Issue of JLPEA is dedicated to advances in all aspects of QCA-based digital designs, from the introduction of new basic logic functions, up to innovative layout stategies, including advanced EDA tools and algorithms to support QCA designers. Original contributions from the following non-exhaustive list of topics are solicited:
- specialized QCA-based logic structures and interconnections;
- innovative clock schemes to control data flow directionality;
- smart formulations of logic equations;
- arithmetic circuits;
- logic gates and digital circuits designs;
- software development tools for the design and the characterization of QCA circuits.
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- QCA-based logic architectures
- Clock schemes in QCA technologies
- EDA tools for QCA
- logic optimization for QCA circuits
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