Publications related to Diode logic

Contemporary Logic Synthesis: with an Application to AQFP Circuit Optimization

Electronic devices play an irreplaceable role in our lives. With the tightening time to market, exploding demand for computing power, and continuous desire for smaller, faster, less energy-consuming, and lower-cost chips, computer-aided design for electron ...

EPFL2024

Unraveling the Electrochemical Electrode Coupling in Integrated Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Matteo Cucchi, Hsin Tseng

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) have gained enormous attention due to their potential for bioelectronics and neuromorphic computing. However, their implementation into real-world applications is still impeded by a lack of understanding of the c ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Energy-Efficient Electronic Functions Based on the Co-integration of 2D and Ferroelectric Materials

Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei

The digital revolution has significantly transformed our world over the past decades, driven by the scaling of transistor dimensions and the exponential increase in computation power. However, as the CMOS scaling era approaches its end, the semiconductor i ...

EPFL2023

Exploring negative capacitance and neuromorphic devices based on CMOS-compatible ferroelectric HfO2

Carlotta Gastaldi

Ferroelectric materials are explored for numerous applications thanks to their properties associated with electrically switchable spontaneous polarization. Perovskites are an established class of ferroelectrics used for sensors and actuators. However, they ...

EPFL2022

Shrinking FPGA Static Power via Machine Learning-Based Power Gating and Enhanced Routing

Mirjana Stojilovic, Hossein Asadi, Zeinab Seifoori

Despite FPGAs rapidly evolving to support the requirements of the most demanding emerging applications, their high static power consumption, concentrated within the routing resources, still presents a major hurdle for low-power applications. Augmenting the ...

2021

GaN vertical power devices on silicon substrates

Riyaz Mohammed Abdul Khadar

Gallium Nitride (GaN) is a wonder material which has widely transformed the world by enabling energy-efficient white light-emitting diodes. Over the past decade, GaN has also emerged as one of the most promising materials for developing power devices which ...

EPFL2021

Intrinsic switching in Si-doped HfO2: A study of Curie-Weiss law and its implications for negative capacitance field-effect transistor

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Ali Saeidi, Teodor Rosca, Eamon Patrick O'Connor, Matteo Cavalieri, Carlotta Gastaldi, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei

HfO2-based ferroelectrics are considered a promising class of materials for logic and memory applications due to their CMOS compatibility and ferroelectric figures of merit. A steep-slope field-effect-transistor (FET) switch is a device for logic applicati ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

A hybrid III-V tunnel FET and MOSFET technology platform integrated on silicon

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Kirsten Emilie Moselund, Clarissa Convertino

InGaAs/GaAsSb tunnelling field-effect transistors and InGaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors can be integrated on the same silicon substrate using conventional CMOS-compatible processes, creating a platform for potential use in low-power ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Il demone dell'analogia: Ovvero affinità e divergenze fra il compagno aristotele e noi

Nicola Braghieri

This laconic discourse uses the Aristotelian authority to define the role of the analogical procedure in the government of the architectural composition. Respecting its ambiguous balance between mathematical method and attitude of the imagination, analogy ...

2021

Reconfigurable Logic Gates Based on Programable Multistable Mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Ilan Vardi, Mohamed Gamal Abdelrahman Ahmed Zanaty

Binary logic gates are building blocks of computing machines, in particular, electronic computers. One variant is the programable logic gate, also known as the reconfigurable logic gate, in which the logical function implemented can be modified. In this pa ...

2020

Multiplier Architectures: Challenges and Opportunities with Plasmonic-based Logic

Giovanni De Micheli, Mathias Soeken, Eleonora Testa, Odysseas Zografos

Emerging technologies such as plasmonics and photonics are promising alternatives to CMOS for high throughput applications, thanks to their waveguide's low power consumption and high speed of computation. Besides these qualities, these novel technologies a ...

2020

A Spectral Algorithm for 3-valued Function Equivalence Classification

Mathias Soeken

Spectral techniques for Boolean and multiple-valued functions have been well studied and found to be useful in logic design and testing for conventional circuits. Spectral techniques also have potential application for reversible and quantum circuits. This ...

OLD CITY PUBLISHING INC2020

Performance improvement of chip-level CMOS-integrated ReRAM cells through material optimization

Elmira Shahrabi, Thomas La Grange, Yusuf Leblebici, Tugba Demirci

The integration of the resistive random access memory (ReRAM) with CMOS logic circuitry provides a solution to scaling limitations, and offers promising candidates for use in next generation computing applications. It is challenging to realize a reliable, ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Polarity-Controllable Devices and Circuits for Doping-Free 2D Electronics

Giovanni Vincenzo Resta

The growth of information technology has been sustained by the miniaturization of Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) Field-Effect Transistors (FETs), with the number of devices per unit area constantly increasing, as exemplified by Mooreâ s la ...

EPFL2019

Computer Algebraic Approach to Verification and Debugging of Galois Field Multipliers

Cunxi Yu, Maciej Jerzy Ciesielski

The paper presents a novel method to verify and debug gate-level arithmetic circuits implemented in Galois Field arithmetic. The method is based on forward reduction of the specification polynomials of the circuit in GF(2(m)) using GF(2) models of its logi ...

IEEE2018

Area and Power Efficient Ultra-Wideband Transmitter Based on Active Inductor

Catherine Dehollain, Kerim Türe, Arnout Jan J Devos, Franco Maloberti

This paper presents the design of an impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) transmitter for low-power, short-range, and high-data rate applications such as high density neural recording interfaces. The IR-UWB transmitter pulses are generated by modulating t ...

2018

Integrated ESOP Refactoring for Industrial Designs

Giovanni De Micheli, Mathias Soeken, Luca Gaetano Amarù, Winston Jason Haaswijk

We present a multi-level logic refactoring algorithm based on exclusive sum-of-product (ESOP) expressions. ESOP expressions are two-level logic representation forms, similar to sum of -product (SOP) expressions. However, ESOPs use EXOR instead of OR operat ...

IEEE2018

End-to-End Industrial Study of Retiming

Giovanni De Micheli, Cunxi Yu, Maciej Jerzy Ciesielski

Sequential circuits are combinational circuits that are separated by registers. Retiming is considered as the most promising technique for optimizing sequential circuits, that involves moving the edge-triggered registers across the combinational logic with ...

IEEE2018

Circuit Design, Architecture and CAD for RRAM-based FPGAs

Xifan Tang

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been indispensable components of embedded systems and datacenter infrastructures. However, energy efficiency of FPGAs has become a hard barrier preventing their expansion to more application contexts, due to two ...

EPFL2017

High-Voltage and Low-Leakage AlGaN/GaN Tri-Anode Schottky Diodes With Integrated Tri-Gate Transistors

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Jun Ma

We present AlGaN/GaN nanostructured Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) on silicon substrate with high breakdown voltage (V-BR) and low reverse leakage current (I-R), based on a hybrid of tri-anode and tri-gate architectures. The fabricated SBDs presented a sma ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017