QCADesigner: a rapid design and Simulation tool for quantum-dot cellular automata

  • Authors:
  • K. Walus;T. J. Dysart;G. A. Jullien;R. A. Budiman

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Calgary, Alta., Canada;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper describes a project to create a novel design and simulation tool for quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA), namely QCADesigner. QCA logic and circuit designers require a rapid and accurate simulation and design layout tool to determine the functionality of QCA circuits. QCADesigner gives the designer the ability to quickly layout a QCA design by providing an extensive set of CAD tools. As well, several simulation engines facilitate rapid and accurate simulation. This tool has already been used to design full-adders, barrel shifters, random-access memories, etc. These verified layouts provide motivation to continue efforts toward a final implementation of QCA circuits.