Title: Molecular electronics and reconfigurable logic

Authors: I. O'Connor, J. Liu, D. Navarro, R. Daviot, N. Abouchi, P.E. Gaillardon, F. Clermidy

Addresses: Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology – Ecole Centrale de Lyon, 36, avenue Guy de Collongue, F-69134 Ecully Cedex, France. ' Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology – Ecole Centrale de Lyon, 36, avenue Guy de Collongue, F-69134 Ecully Cedex, France. ' Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology – Ecole Centrale de Lyon, 36, avenue Guy de Collongue, F-69134 Ecully Cedex, France. ' Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology – CPE Lyon, 43, boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, F-69100 Villeurbanne, France. ' Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology – CPE Lyon, 43, boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, F-69100 Villeurbanne, France. ' CEA – LETI – MINATEC, 17, rue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble, France. ' CEA – LETI – MINATEC, 17, rue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble, France

Abstract: This paper describes a reprogrammable architecture based on regular matrices of fine-grain dynamically reconfigurable cells based on double-gate carbon nanotube field effect transistors (DG-CNTFET) exhibiting ambivalence (p-type or n-type behaviour depending on the back-gate voltage). Using available models, reconfigurable cells have been simulated and performance metrics quantified at 4 GHz operation. A function mapping method suitable for this matrix structure has been devised, and various interconnect topologies have been analysed, showing average mapping success rates to 4 × 4 cell matrices of above 80% for 8-node function graphs. This gives insight into the way data functionality could be coded into the architecture based on such reconfigurable cells for on-the-fly and partial reprogrammability.

Keywords: carbon nanotubes; double-gate; reconfigurable logic; function mapping; molecular electronics; nanotechnology; field effect transistors; reconfigurable cells; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNT.2010.031725

International Journal of Nanotechnology, 2010 Vol.7 No.4/5/6/7/8, pp.367 - 382

Published online: 21 Feb 2010 *

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