NanoRouter: A Quantum-dot Cellular Automata Design
Luiz Henrique Borges Sardinha, Artur M. M. Costa, Omar P. Vilela Neto, Luiz F. M. Vieira, Marcos A. M. Vieira · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 2013
We present NanoRouter, a new router architecture implemented as a quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA). A router is a key component in the Internet core. It allows packets to be transferred in the Internet. QCA is a promising nanoscale technology where components have nano size, ultra-low power consumption and could have a clock rate on the terahertz range. In a bottom-up approach, we first describe the building blocks that compose NanoRouter such as crossbar, demux and parallel-to-serial converter and then describe the full architecture. We demonstrate the functionality, test and validate the proposed architecture and provided performance evaluations of NanoRouter. This new router architecture can increase the speed of the Internet core.