In memory computation using quantum-dot cellular automata
The conventional computing system has been facing enormous pressure to cope with the uprising demand for computing speed in today's world. In search of high-speed computing in the nano-scale era, it becomes the utmost necessity to explore a viable alternative to overcome the challenges of the p...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Chronic diseases and translational medicine 2020-11, Vol.14 (6), p.336-343 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The conventional computing system has been facing enormous pressure to cope with the uprising demand for computing speed in today's world. In search of high-speed computing in the nano-scale era, it becomes the utmost necessity to explore a viable alternative to overcome the challenges of the physical limit of complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS). Towards that direction, the processing-in-memory (PIM) is advancing its importance as it keeps the computation as adjacent as possible to memory. It promises to outperform the latencies of the conventional stored-program concept by embedding storage and data computation in a single unit. On the other hand, the bit storing and processing capability of Akers array provides the foundation of PIM. Again, quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) emerges as a promising nanoelectronic to put back CMOS to give fast-paced devices at the nanoelectronics era. This work presents a novel PIM concept, embedding Akers array in QCA to achieve high-speed computing at the nano-scale era. QCA implementation of universal logic utilizing Akers array signifies its processing power and puts forth its potentials. A universal function is considered for testing the effectiveness of the proposed PIM cell. The performance evaluation indicates the efficacy of QCA PIM over the conventional Von Neumann architecture. |
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ISSN: | 1751-8601 1751-861X 2095-882X 1751-861X 2589-0514 |
DOI: | 10.1049/iet-cdt.2020.0008 |