Design and Test of Digital Circuits by Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata

Fabrizio Lombardi is currently the holder of the International Test Conference (ITC) Endowed Chair Professorship at Northeastern University. He has been the recipient of numerous professional awards and recently served as associate editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers. Dr Lombardi earned his Ph.D. at the University of London. Jing Huang is currently a Ph.D. candidate and research assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, where she received her M.S. in science and electrical engineering.

• Introduction. Overview of Nanotechnology. QCA. QCA Combinational Logic Design. Logic-Level Testing. Defect Characterization of Devices. AND-OR-Inverter (AOI) Gate. Two-Dimensional Schemes for Clocking/Timing of QCA Circuits. Tile-Based QCA Design. Sequential Circuit Design in QCA. QCA Memory. Implementing Universal Logic in QCA.