Integrating Nano-logic Knowledge Module into an Undergraduate Logic Design Course

S. Srivastava and S. Bhanja, “Integrating Nano-logic Knowledge Module into an Undergraduate Logic Design Course”, Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Education, 2008.

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title={Integrating a Nanologic Knowledge Module Into an Undergraduate Logic Design Course},
author={Srivastava, S. and Bhanja, S.},
journal={Education, IEEE Transactions on},
year={2008},
month={Aug. },
volume={51},
number={3},
pages={349-355},
abstract={ This work discusses a knowledge module in an undergraduate logic design course for electrical engineering (EE) and computer science (CS) students, that introduces them to nanocomputing concepts. This knowledge module has a twofold objective. First, the module interests students in the fundamental logical behavior and functionality of the nanodevices of the future, which will motivate them to enroll in other elective courses related to nanotechnology, offered in most EE and CS departments. Second, this module can be used to let students analyze, synthesize, and apply their existing knowledge of the Karnaugh-map-based Boolean logic reduction scheme into a revolutionary design context with majority logic. Where many efforts focus on developing new courses on nanofabrication and even nanocomputing, this work is designed to augment the existing standard EE and CS courses by inserting knowledge modules on nanologic structures so as to stimulate student interest without creating a significant diversion from the course framework. },
keywords={Boolean functions, computer science education, electrical engineering education, logic design, nanoelectronicsKarnaugh-map-based Boolean logic reduction scheme, computer science students, electrical engineering students, nanocomputing concepts, nanodevices, nanofabrication, nanologic knowledge module, revolutionary design, undergraduate logic design course},
doi={10.1109/TE.2008.919660},
ISSN={0018-9359}, }

Sequential Circuit Design in Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata

Sequential Circuit Design in Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Venkataramani, P. Srivastava, S. Bhanja, S. Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL This paper appears in: Nanotechnology, 2008. NANO '08. 8th IEEE Conference on Publication Date: 18-21 Aug. 2008 On page(s): 534 - 537 Location: Arlington, TX ISBN: 978-1-4244-2103-9 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/NANO.2008.159 Current Version Published: 2008-09-03

Abstract In this work we present a novel probabilistic modeling scheme for sequential circuit design in quantum-dot cellular automata(QCA) technology. Clocked QCA circuits possess an inherent direction for flow of information which can be effectively modeled using Bayesian networks (BN). In sequential circuit design this presents a problem due to the presence of feedback cycles since BN are direct acyclic graphs (DAG). The model presented in this work can be constructed from a logic design layout in QCA and is shown to be a dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN). DBN are very powerful in modeling higher order spatial and temporal correlations that are present in most of the sequential circuits. The attractive feature of this graphical probabilistic model is that that it not only makes the dependency relationships amongst node explicit, but it also serves as a computational mechanism for probabilistic inference. We analyze our work by modeling clocked QCA circuits for SR F/F, JK F/F and RAM designs.

Prof. Mary Jane Irwin's visit

We hosted Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by Computer Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W), Fall 2007.

Prof. Porod's Visit

Prof. Wolfgang Porod visits our fabrication lab.

Mcnight scholarship

Javier Pulecio receives McKnight Foundation Scholarship

Invited Talk sponsored by IEEE@WIE

Dr. Sanjukta Bhanja delivers Invited talk on "Field-Coupled Nano-Computing" for National Symposium on Emerging Computing, IEEE WIE, Kolkata, 2007.

DASS Award

Karthikeyan Lingasubramanian attends Design Automation Summer School 2007.