Computing at the Nanoscale

Instructor

Michael Niemier

307 Cushing Hall

mniemier at nd dot edu

(574) 631-3858

Office Hours

Wednesdays from 2 pm – 5 pm; anytime if I’m not busy; by appointment

Lecture

Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 11:45 a.m. – 12:35 p.m. in DeBartolo Hall – Room 225

Preliminary Grades

- Click here. By last 4 digits of student ID #. (See comments in certain cases…)

Final Grade Calculation

- Option 1:

o 55% (HW 1, HW 2, HW 3, HW 5)

o 20% HW 4

o 25% Final Project

- Option 2:

o 55% (HW 1, HW 2, HW 3, HW 5, HW 6)

o 20% HW 4

o 25% Final Project

Bonus Question

- Can be found here.

Course Outline

Lecture	Date	Topic	Assignments	Lecture Source Material and/or Comments
1	29-Aug	Introduction	Out: Final Exam
2	31-Aug	The Teramac (notes) (slides)		Discuss: A Defect-Tolerant Computer Architecture: Opportunities for Nanotechnology, Heath, et. al.
3	3-Sep	CMOS fundametnals (pn junction, P/N-MOS transistor)		A board discussion. No electronic notes available. (See me if copy desired.)
4	5-Sep	CMOS fundamentals + scaling issues (slides) (supplement)	HW #1: Roadblocks to MOS (questions) (slides) (audio) (ITRS) (solutions)	Some notes were given on the board only. (See me if copy desired.)
5	7-Sep	CMOS device performance metrics (power, latency) (supplement)		Some notes were given on the board only. (See me if copy desired.)
6	10-Sep	CMOS scaling issues (static power, interconnect) (supplement)		A board discussion. No electronic notes available. (See me if copy desired.)
7	12-Sep	CMOS scaling issues (interconnect & “the big picture”) (supplement)		A board discussion. No electronic notes available. (See me if copy desired.)
8	14-Sep	CMOS scaling wrap up + Probabilistic CMOS (by Palem)		Discuss: “Probabilistic Arithmetic and Energy Efficient Embedded Signal Processing” Palem, et. al.
9	17-Sep	Probabilistic CMOS (by Palem)		A continuation of Lecture 08 A board discussion. No electronic notes available. (See me if copy desired.)
10	19-Sep	Probabilistic CMOS (by Bahar) (supplement)		Discuss: “Nanoscale Logic based on MRFs” by Bahar, et. al. Other paper references: Bahar, et. al. (DATE ’06) Bahar, et. al. (DAC ’05) Bahar, et. al. (ICCAD ’03) Yedidia (Belief Propagation)
11	21-Sep	Probabilistic CMOS (by Bahar) (supplement)	HW #1 Due	A continuation of Lecture 10 A board discussion. No electronic notes available. (See me if copy desired.)
12	24-Sep	Motivation for alternative FET structures (SCEs, dopants, etc.) (supplement)		A board discussion. No electronic notes available. (See me if copy desired.)
13	26-Sep	FinFETs (supplement)	Two versions available: (a) Download Word document HERE (includes hyperlinks) (b) Webpage version	Discuss: “In search of ‘Forever’...”, IEEE T. on Semi. Manufacturing “CMOS Tri-gate Transistors…”, Intel Technology Magazine “Tri-gate transistor architecture…”, 2006 Symposium on VLSI Technology “CMOS design near scaling limit”, IBM J. of Res. And Dev. “Turning Si on its Edge”, IEEE Circuits and Devices A board discussion. No electronic notes available. (See me if copy desired.)
14	28-Sep	CNT FETs and CNT-based interconnect (supplement)		Discuss: “Nanotubes for Electronics” Avouris, Scientific American “Transistor structures … in CNTs” Avouris, J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B. “Perf. Analysis Of CNT IC for VLSI Apps.” Banerjee, ICCAD ‘05 “Are CNTs Future of VLSI Interconnects?” Banerjee, DAC ‘06 A board discussion. No electronic notes available. (See me if copy desired.)
15	1-Oct	Introduction to Reconfigurable Computing (Dr. Hu's Slides)		Guest lecture by Dr. Sharon Hu
16	3-Oct	Array-based Architectures (Dehon) (supplement)		Main Paper: “Nanowire-Based Programmable Architectures” Dehon, JETC, Vol 1, No. 2, July 2005 A board discussion. No electronic notes available. (See me if copy desired.) Langmuir-Blodgett Flow Assembly: “Nanolithography Using Hierarchically Assembled Nanowire Masks” Lieber, et. al., Nano Letters, Vol.3, No. 7 “Directed Assembly of One-Dimensional Nanostructures into Functional NWs” Lieber, et. al., Science, Vol. 291, 2001 Crosspoint References: “2D Molecular Electronic Circuits” Heath, et. al., ChemPhysChem, 2002, Vol. 3 “Computing with Molecules” Reed & Tour, Scientific American, 2000
17	5-Oct	Array-based Architectures (Dehon) (supplement)		See papers for Lecture 16 Notes handed out in class.
18	8-Oct	Array-based Architectures (Dehon) (