Title :
Automated mapping for reconfigurable single-electron transistor arrays
Author :
Chen, Yung-Chih ; Eachempati, Soumya ; Wang, Chun-Yao ; Datta, Suman ; Xie, Yuan ; Narayanan, Vijaykrishnan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
Reducing power consumption has become one of the primary challenges in chip design, and therefore significant efforts are being devoted to find holistic solutions on power reduction from the device level up to the system level. Among a plethora of low power devices that are being explored, single-electron transistors (SETs) at room temperature are particularly attractive. Although prior work has proposed a binary decision diagram-based reconfigurable logic architecture using SETs, it lacks an automated synthesis tool for the device. Consequently, in this work, we develop a product-term-based approach that synthesizes a logic circuit by mapping all its product terms into the SET architecture. The experimental results show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach on a set of MCNC benchmarks.
Keywords :
decision diagrams; logic circuits; logic design; reconfigurable architectures; transistor circuits; MCNC benchmarks; automated mapping; automated synthesis tool; binary decision diagram based reconfigurable logic architecture; logic circuit; power consumption reduction; product term based approach; reconfigurable single electron transistor array; single electron transistor; Boolean functions; Data structures; Fabrics; Image edge detection; Merging; Partial transmit sequences; Sorting; Automatic synthesis; binary decision diagram; single-electron transistor;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2011 48th ACM/EDAC/IEEE
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4503-0636-2