Disruptive Logic Architectures and Technologies

'Disruptive technologies' can help overcome the economic and physical limits faced by the electronics industry. This book provides a new architectural method of evaluating emerging technology, and discusses its implications at numerous levels of complexity.

This book discusses the opportunities offered by disruptive technologies to overcome the economical and physical limits currently faced by the electronics industry. It provides a new methodology for the fast evaluation of an emerging technology from an architectural prospective and discusses the implications from simple circuits to complex architectures. Several technologies are discussed, ranging from 3-D integration of devices (Phase Change Memories, Monolithic 3-D, Vertical NanoWires-based transistors) to dense 2-D arrangements (Double-Gate Carbon Nanotubes, Sublithographic Nanowires, Lithographic Crossbar arrangements). Novel architectural organizations, as well as the associated tools, are presented in order to explore this freshly opened design space.

Introduction. - Part I: Background. - Background and Motivation. - Part II: Incremental Logic and Design. - Innovative Structures for Routing and Configuration. - Architectural Impact of 3-D Configuration and Routing Schemes. - Part III: Disruptive Logic Design. - Disruptive Logic Blocks. - Disruptive Architectural Proposals and Performance Analysis. - Conclusions and Contributions.