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The Architecture of a Moletronics Computer
Some novel designs for several such simple molecular electronic digital
logic circuits: a complete set of three fundamental logic gates: (AND, OR,
and XOR gates), plus and adder function built up from the gates via the
well-known combinational logic, was demonstrated. This means in coming
future, this technology could be a replacement for VLSI. However,
currently, this technology is only available under lab condition. How to
mass product moletronic chips is still a big problem.
Currently, integrated circuits by etching silicon
wafers using beam of light. It's the VLSI lithography-based technology
makes mass production of Pentium III processor possible. But as the size
of logic block goes to nano-scale, this technology no long available. As
wavelength get too short, they tend to become X-rays and can damage the
micro structure of molecules.
On the other hand, the mask of lithography of Pentium
III is so complex, and the shape and the dimension of its logic block
varies so much. Looking at currently available integrated circuits, the
transistor density of memory chip are much higher than processor chip, the
reason is that the cell of memory is much more simple than circuit of
processor.
Because, except the decoding logic, most of the memory
bit cell is the same. Could we find a way to fabricate complex logic
circuit as Pentium processor using million of same logic units? The
PLD(Programmable Logic Devices) is the answer. The paper is organized as
following: section II presents some basic of moletronic gate circuit.
section III uses PLD technology to build more complex blocks. section IV
shows the nanotube can be used for interconnection wires
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