Magnetic QCA (MQCA) Design and Testing Tool
Hui Anderson · 2012
Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) nanotechnology serves as an alternative computational paradigm to CMOS technology.Contrary to the extremely low operating temperature required by QCA, magnetic quantum-dot cellular automata (M-QCA) cells would operate at room temperature.This thesis describes a project to create a design and simulation engine for magnetic quantum-dot cellular automata (M-QCA) and integrate this simulator into one of the prevailing QCA simulation tools -QCADesigner.As the first stage of an ongoing effort on M-QCA simulators made by HPLP group at University of Virginia, Electrical Engineering department, this project creates the bistable simulator of M-QCA which assumes the cell is a simple twostate system for fast simulation speed.This simulation engine preserves the extensive set of CAD tools and expands QCADesigner's capabilities as a software product of simulating M-QCA models such as wires, majority gate and more complex circuits.Our vision is to provide the community with a testing and design platform for logical and physical realization of M-QCA devices and circuitry.