A Reconfiguration-Based Defect-Tolerant Design Paradigm for Nanotechnologies
July/August 2005 (vol. 22 no. 4)
pp. 316-326
To address the density, scalability, and reliability challenges of emerging nanotechnologies, the authors propose a hierarchy of design abstractions, constructed as reconfigurable fabric regions, whereby designers assign small functional flows to each region. The approach exposes a new class of yield, delay, and cost trade-offs that must be jointly considered when designing computing systems in defect-prone nanotechnologies.
Index Terms:
Nanotechnologies, probabilistic design, defect tolerance, reconfiguration
Citation:
Chen He, Margarida F. Jacome, Gustavo de Veciana, "A Reconfiguration-Based Defect-Tolerant Design Paradigm for Nanotechnologies," IEEE Design and Test of Computers, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 316-326, July/Aug. 2005, doi:10.1109/MDT.2005.76