Towards a Holistic CAD Platform for Nanotechnologies

TL;DR

This paper discusses developing a comprehensive CAD platform tailored for nanotechnologies to efficiently utilize their immense computing power for simulating complex systems with numerous simple elements.

Contribution

It introduces a work-in-progress CAD framework designed to meet nanotechnology-specific requirements and leverage their computational capabilities for system simulation.

Findings

Initial CAD tools are being developed for nanotech system simulation.

The approach aims to optimize the use of nanotech computing power.

The work addresses the need for new CAD paradigms in nanotechnology.

Abstract

Silicon-based CMOS technologies are predicted to reach their ultimate limits by the middle of the next decade. Research on nanotechnologies is actively conducted, in a world-wide effort to develop new technologies able to maintain the Moore's law. They promise revolutionizing the computing systems by integrating tremendous numbers of devices at low cost. These trends will have a profound impact on the architectures of computing systems and will require a new paradigm of CAD. The paper presents a work in progress on this direction. It is aimed at fitting requirements and constraints of nanotechnologies, in an effort to achieve efficient use of the huge computing power promised by them. To achieve this goal we are developing CAD tools able to exploit efficiently these huge computing capabilities promised by nanotechnologies in the domain of simulation of complex systems composed by huge numbers of relatively simple elements.