Faculty Sponsor

Douglas Tougaw

College

Engineering

Discipline(s)

Electrical Engineering

Presentation Type

Poster Presentation

Symposium Date

Spring 5-2-2015

Abstract

The authors describe a signal distribution network for sequential systems constructed using the Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) computing paradigm. This network promises to enable the construction of arbitrarily complex QCA sequential systems in which all wire crossings are performed using nearest neighbor interactions, which will improve the thermal behavior of QCA systems as well as their resistance to stray charge and fabrication imperfections. The new sequential signal distribution network is demonstrated by the complete design and simulation of a two-bit counter, a three-bit counter, and a pattern detection circuit.

Biographical Information about Author(s)

Hayden Hast is currently a senior electrical engineering student at Valparaiso University. He is a Hesse Scholar and a member of Tau Beta Pi. He plans to join Texas Instruments Inc. as a member of the Global Application Rotational Program. Sami Khorbotly received a B. Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon in 2001. He then received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Akron in 2003 and 2007 respectively. He is currently an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Douglas Tougaw received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1991 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1994 and 1996. He also received an MBA degree from Valparaiso University in 2005. He is currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering.

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