Molecular electronics: devices, systems and tools for gigagate, gigabit chips
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Piecewise Linear Models for Switch-Level Simulation
Piecewise Linear Models for Switch-Level Simulation
Electronic Circuit & System Simulation Methods (SRE)
Electronic Circuit & System Simulation Methods (SRE)
Augmentation of SPICE for simulation of circuits containing resonant tunneling diodes
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 2
Nanocomputing in the presence of defects and faults: a survey
Nano, quantum and molecular computing
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As research begins to explore potential nanotechnologiesfor future post-CMOS integrated systems, modeling andsimulation environments must be developed that canaccommodate the corresponding problem complexity and non-traditionaldevice characteristics. This paper describes a circuit-levelsimulator that can accommodate an important class ofnanotechnology devices that are characterized by non-monotonicI-V characteristics. Employing adaptively controlledexplicit integration method (ACES) and piecewise linear (PWL)device models, the proposed approach effectively overcomesthe convergence problems and multiple equilibrium pointsolution problems caused by the Negative DifferentialResistance (NDR) regions in such device I-V functions.Importantly, the ACES approach can address the circuit sizeproblem when partitioning is included, and providecompatibility with simple I-V device model tables, therebyavoiding the need for analytical device models that rarely areavailable for nanotechnology devices.