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A Novel Algorithm for Fast Synthesis of DNA Probes on Microarrays
DNA microarrays are used extensively for biochemical analysis that includes genomics and drug discovery. This increased usage demands large microarrays, thus complicating their computer aided design (CAD) and manufacturing methodologies. One such time-...
Module-Based Synthesis of Digital Microfluidic Biochips with Droplet-Aware Operation Execution
Microfluidic biochips represent an alternative to conventional biochemical analyzers. A digital biochip manipulates liquids not as continuous flow, but as discrete droplets on a two-dimensional array of electrodes. Several electrodes are dynamically ...
Brownian Circuits: Fundamentals
Random fluctuations will be a major factor interfering with the operation of nanometer scale electronic devices. This article presents circuit architectures that can exploit such fluctuations, if signals have a particle-like (discrete, token-based) ...
Design and Analysis of a Robust Carbon Nanotube-Based Asynchronous Primitive Circuit
Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors (CNFETs) show great promise as extensions to silicon CMOS. However, CNFET-based circuits will face great fabrication challenges that will translate into important parameter variations and decreased reliability. ...
A Synthesis Algorithm for Reconfigurable Single-Electron Transistor Arrays
Reducing power consumption has become one of the primary challenges in chip design, and therefore significant efforts are being devoted to find holistic solutions on power reduction from the device level up to the system level. Among a plethora of low ...
Thermal Characterization of Test Techniques for FinFET and 3D Integrated Circuits
Power consumption has become a very important consideration during integrated circuit (IC) design and test. During test, it can far exceed the values reached during normal operation and, thus, lead to temperatures above the allowed threshold. Without ...
Hybrid Redundancy for Defect Tolerance in Molecular Crossbar Memory
Nano/molecular technologies have emerged as the potential fabrics for building future integrated systems. However, due to the imperfect fabrication process, these extremely scaled devices are vulnerable to a large number of defects and transient faults. ...
Variability in Nanoscale Fabrics: Bottom-up Integrated Analysis and Mitigation
- Pritish Narayanan,
- Michael Leuchtenburg,
- Jorge Kina,
- Prachi Joshi,
- Pavan Panchapakeshan,
- Chi On Chui,
- C. Andras Moritz
Emerging nanodevice-based architectures will be impacted by parameter variation in conjunction with high defect rates. Variations in key physical parameters are caused by manufacturing imprecision as well as fundamental atomic scale randomness. In this ...
Effect of Wordline/Bitline Scaling on the Performance, Energy Consumption, and Reliability of Cross-Point Memory Array
The impact of wordline/bitline metal wire scaling on the write/read performance, energy consumption, speed, and reliability of the cross-point memory array is quantitatively studied for technology nodes down to single-digit nm. The impending resistivity ...
