Title :
Design, Simulation and Performance Evaluation of a NAND Based Single-electron 2-4 Decoder
Author :
Tsiolakis, T. ; Konofaos, N. ; Alexiou, G. Ph
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng. & Inf., Univ. of Patras, Patras, Greece
Abstract :
In this paper the design and simulation of a single-electron 2-4 decoder based on NAND gates is presented. The simulation was made using a Monte-Carlo based tool. The results confirmed that the circuit was behaving as a 2-4 decoder. The stability plot and the free energy history diagrams offer detailed analysis of the circuit. The results were compared to similar circuits reported in the literature and the advantages and disadvantages of this design were identified.
Keywords :
Monte Carlo methods; circuit simulation; decoding; logic gates; network synthesis; single electron devices; Monte-Carlo based tool; NAND gates; free energy history diagrams; performance evaluation; single-electron 2-4 decoder; stability plot; Capacitance; Circuit simulation; Circuit stability; Computational modeling; Decoding; Design engineering; Design methodology; Electrons; Inverters; Voltage; Decoder; NAND; Single Electron;
Conference_Titel :
Digital System Design, Architectures, Methods and Tools, 2009. DSD '09. 12th Euromicro Conference on
Conference_Location :
Patras
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3782-5
DOI :
10.1109/DSD.2009.240
