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Welcome to the NANOxCOMP Project</h2>
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==About the Group==
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Nano-crossbar arrays have emerged as a strong candidate technology to replace CMOS in near future. They are regular and dense structures, and fabricated by exploiting self-assembly as opposed to purely using lithography based conventional and relatively costly CMOS fabrication techniques. Currently, nano-crossbar arrays are fabricated such that each crosspoint can be used as a conventional electronic component such as a diode, a FET, or a switch. This is a unique opportunity that allows us to integrate well developed conventional circuit design techniques into nano-crossbar arrays. Motivated by this, we aim to develop a complete synthesis and performance optimization methodology for switching nano-crossbar arrays that leads to the design and construction of an emerging nanocomputer.
  
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Project objectives are 1) synthesizing Boolean functions with area optimization; 2) achieving fault tolerance; 3) performing performance optimization by considering area, delay, power, and accuracy; 4) implementing arithmetic and memory elements; and 5) realizing a synchronous state machine.
  
  
The group consists of [[Mustafa_Altun|Dr. Mustafa Altun]] and his students in the [http://www.ehb.itu.edu.tr/index.php?lang=en Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering] at [http://www.itu.edu.tr/en/ Istanbul Technical University (ITU)]. Our research focuses on circuit design and computation for emerging nanoscale technologies. We also have a special interest in mathematical combinatorics and analog circuit design.
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* Check our "[[People]]" page for a list of people in the group.
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* Check our "[[Papers_and_Slides|Publications]]" page for our papers and slides.
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* We are looking for graduate students to work on the following research topics. If interested, please contact [[Mustafa Altun | Mustafa]] at altunmus@itu.edu.tr.
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** Synthesis and defect-tolerance for arrays of nanoswitches.
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** Probabilistic computational models for unreliable nanodevices.
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| width="500"|Synthesis and Performance Optimization of a Switching Nano-Crossbar Computer
* We are looking for highly motivated undergraduate students willing to develop a background in the area of circuit design for emerging nanoscale technologies. If interested, please contact [[Mustafa Altun | Mustafa]] at altunmus@itu.edu.tr.
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| width="500"|NANOxCOMP
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| [http://www.ecc.itu.edu.tr/index.php?title=Mustafa_Altun Mustafa Altun], [http://www.ecc.itu.edu.tr/index.php?title=Main_Page ECC Group, Istanbul Technical University]
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* Dr. Dan Alexandrescu, [http://www.iroctech.com/ IROC Techonogies], France <br>
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* Prof. Lorena Anghel, [http://tima.imag.fr/tima/en/index.html TIMA Lab.], France (''partnership terminated'')<br>
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* Prof. Valentina Ciriani, [http://alos.di.unimi.it/ ALOS Lab., University of Milan], Italy. <br>
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* Prof. Csaba A. Moritz, [http://www.umass.edu/nanofabrics/ Nanoscale Computing Fabrics Lab., University of Massachusetts], USA <br>
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* Prof. Kaushik Roy, [http://engineering.purdue.edu/NRL/index.html Nanoelectronics Research Lab., Purdue University], USA <br>
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* Prof. Georgios Sirakoulis, [http://www.ee.duth.gr/en/ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace], Greece (''new partner'') <br>
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* Prof. Mircea Stan, [http://hplp.ece.virginia.edu/home High-Performance Low-Power Lab., University of Virginia], USA <br>
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* Prof. Mehdi B. Tahoori, [http://cdnc.itec.kit.edu/index.php Dependable Nano-Computing Group, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology], Germany
  
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| '''funding agency & program''':
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| width="500"| [http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/about-msca/actions/rise/index_en.htm European Union/European Commission H2020 MSCA  Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Program (RISE)]  <br> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVeJFeKYrLs&feature=youtu.be RISE Video]
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| '''budget''':
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| 724.500 EURO
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| 2015-2019
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* gathers globally leading research groups working on nanoelectronics and EDA;
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* targets variety of emerging technologies including nanowire/nanotube crossbar arrays, magnetic switch-based structures, and crossbar memories; and
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* contributes to the construction of emerging computers beyond CMOS by proposing nano-crossbar based computer architectures.
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<br> [http://www.ecc.itu.edu.tr/images/5/57/NANOxCOMP_DATE16_slides_2016.pptx Slides]
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<br> [[Media:NANOxCOMP_DATE16_poster_2016.pdf | Poster]]
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* <span style="background:#F5F5F5; font-size: 125%; border:2px solid #B22222;"> 34</span> researchers have been seconded to project partners, performing a total of <span style="background:#F5F5F5; font-size: 125%; border:2px solid #B22222;"> 110,93</span>  secondment months. <span style="background:#F5F5F5; font-size: 125%; border:2px solid #B22222;"> 17</span> of them are early stage researchers  and <span style="background:#F5F5F5; font-size: 125%; border:2px solid #B22222;"> 9</span> of them are female researchers.
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* <span style="background:#F5F5F5; font-size: 125%; border:2px solid #B22222;"> 32</span>  peer-reviewed papers contributed by 30 project secondees or partners have been published. <span style="background:#F5F5F5; font-size: 125%; border:2px solid #B22222;"> 12</span> of them are journal papers.
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* We present our work "''Nano-Crossbar based Computing: Lessons Learned and Future Directions''" in a premier conference on electronic design automation [http://www.date-conference.com/ DATE 2020].
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* We present our work "''CMOS Implementation of Switching Lattices''" in a premier conference on electronic design automation [http://www.date-conference.com/ DATE 2020].
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* We present our work "''Analog Neural Network based on Memristor Crossbar Arrays''" in [http://www.eleco.org.tr/ ELECO 2019].
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* We present our work "''Noise-induced Performance Enhancement of Variability-aware Memristor Networks''" in [http://www.ieee-icecs2019.org/ ICECS 2019].
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* We give a keynote talk "''Computing with Nano-crossbar Arrays''" in [http://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/CENICS19.html CENICS 2019].
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* We present our work "''Testability of Switching Lattices in the Cellular Fault Model''" in [http://dsd-seaa2019.csd.auth.gr/ DSD 2019].
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* A new partner Prof. Georgios Sirakoulis from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece has joined our consortium. Welcome!
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* We present our work "''Realization of Four-Terminal Switching Lattices: Technology Development and Circuit Modeling''" in a premier conference on electronic design automation [http://www.date-conference.com/ DATE 2019].
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* We present our work "''A Satisfiability-Based Approximate Algorithm for Logic Synthesis Using Switching Lattices''" in a premier conference on electronic design automation [http://www.date-conference.com/ DATE 2019].
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* We present our work "''Fault Mitigation of Switching Lattices under the Stuck-At-Fault Model''" in [http://tima.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/conferences/lats/2019/ LATS 2019].
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* We present our work "''Testability of Switching Lattices in the Stuck at Fault Model''" in [http://vlsi-soc.di.univr.it/ VLSI-Soc 2018].
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* We present our work "''Integrated Synthesis Methodology for Crossbar Arrays''" in a leading conference on nanocircuits/nanoarchitectures [http://www.nanoarch.org IEEE/ACM-NANOARCH 2018].
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* We showcase our project in a [http://youtu.be/iwMSSvE1y8s YouTube video].
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* We present our work "''Logic Synthesis and Defect Tolerance for Memristive Crossbar Arrays''" in a premier conference on electronic design automation [http://www.date-conference.com/ DATE 2018].
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* We present our work "''Yield Analysis of Nano-Crossbar Arrays for Uniform and Clustered Defect Distributions''" in [http://icecs2017.org/ IEEE-ICECS 2017].
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* We publicly introduce our project in [http://www.english.sci-all.com/ Science Unites All (SCI-ALL) 2017] - [http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/about/researchers-night_en European Researchers' Night Event].
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* We present our work "''Composition of Switching Lattices and Autosymmetric Boolean Function Synthesis''" in [http://dsd-seaa2017.ocg.at/dsd2017 DSD 2017].
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* We present our work "''Spintronic Memristor based Offset Cancellation Technique for Sense Amplifiers''" in [http://smacd2017.unisa.it/ SMACD 2017].
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* We successfully have our midterm review meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland on March 2017. For the agenda [[Media:1-691178-NANOxCOMP-MTM-agenda.pdf | click here]].
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* We present our work "''Computing with Nano-Crossbar Arrays: Logic Synthesis and Fault Tolerance''" in a premier conference on electronic design automation [http://www.date-conference.com/ DATE 2017].
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* We present our work "''Synthesis on Switching Lattices of Dimension-Reducible Boolean Functions''" in [http://ati.ttu.ee/vlsi-soc2016/ VLSI-Soc 2016].
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* We present our project and our work on ''logic synthesis of switching nanoarrays'' in [http://dsd-seaa2016.cs.ucy.ac.cy/index.php?p=DSD2016 DSD 2016].
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* We give an invited talk "''EU H2020 Success Story''" in [http://msca-association.teamwork.fr/en/programme H2020 MSCA 2016 Istanbul Training & Info Event].
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* We present our work "''Power-Delay-Area Performance Modeling and Analysis for Nano-Crossbar Arrays''" in [http://www.isvlsi.org/ IEEE-ISVLSI 2016].
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* We organize [http://sintesilogica.di.unimi.it/ the National Workshop on Logic Synthesis, July 2016] with introducing our project and preliminary research results.
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* We give an invited talk "''Circuit Design and Optimization of Nano-Crossbar Arrays''" in [http://www.nanotr12.org/ NanoTR-12].
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* We give a plenary talk "''Implementation of a Switching Nano-Crossbar Computer''" in [http://www.wseas.org/cms.action?id=11327 ACS 2016].
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* We present and exhibit our ''EU H2020 project NANOxCOMP'' in a premier conference on electronic design automation [http://www.date-conference.com/ DATE 2016] with over 1000 attendees from academia and industry.
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Welcome to the NANOxCOMP Project

Nano-crossbar arrays have emerged as a strong candidate technology to replace CMOS in near future. They are regular and dense structures, and fabricated by exploiting self-assembly as opposed to purely using lithography based conventional and relatively costly CMOS fabrication techniques. Currently, nano-crossbar arrays are fabricated such that each crosspoint can be used as a conventional electronic component such as a diode, a FET, or a switch. This is a unique opportunity that allows us to integrate well developed conventional circuit design techniques into nano-crossbar arrays. Motivated by this, we aim to develop a complete synthesis and performance optimization methodology for switching nano-crossbar arrays that leads to the design and construction of an emerging nanocomputer.

Project objectives are 1) synthesizing Boolean functions with area optimization; 2) achieving fault tolerance; 3) performing performance optimization by considering area, delay, power, and accuracy; 4) implementing arithmetic and memory elements; and 5) realizing a synchronous state machine.


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Project details

title: Synthesis and Performance Optimization of a Switching Nano-Crossbar Computer
acronym: NANOxCOMP
principal investigator / coordinator: Mustafa Altun, ECC Group, Istanbul Technical University
partner(s):
funding agency & program: European Union/European Commission H2020 MSCA Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Program (RISE)
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budget: 724.500 EURO
duration: 2015-2019


This project
  • gathers globally leading research groups working on nanoelectronics and EDA;
  • targets variety of emerging technologies including nanowire/nanotube crossbar arrays, magnetic switch-based structures, and crossbar memories; and
  • contributes to the construction of emerging computers beyond CMOS by proposing nano-crossbar based computer architectures.
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PRESENTATIONS

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  • This project has received funding from the European Union's H2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 691178.


    Project by the numbers, 2015-2019

    Started in 2015, the project has been successfully completed in 2019 with many achievements including:

    • 34 researchers have been seconded to project partners, performing a total of 110,93 secondment months. 17 of them are early stage researchers and 9 of them are female researchers.
    • 32 peer-reviewed papers contributed by 30 project secondees or partners have been published. 12 of them are journal papers.
    • 35 dissemination, outreach, and management activities have been performed.

    Project activity news

    • We present our work "Nano-Crossbar based Computing: Lessons Learned and Future Directions" in a premier conference on electronic design automation DATE 2020.
    • We present our work "CMOS Implementation of Switching Lattices" in a premier conference on electronic design automation DATE 2020.
    • We present our work "Analog Neural Network based on Memristor Crossbar Arrays" in ELECO 2019.
    • We present our work "Noise-induced Performance Enhancement of Variability-aware Memristor Networks" in ICECS 2019.
    • We give a keynote talk "Computing with Nano-crossbar Arrays" in CENICS 2019.
    • We present our work "Testability of Switching Lattices in the Cellular Fault Model" in DSD 2019.
    • A new partner Prof. Georgios Sirakoulis from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece has joined our consortium. Welcome!
    • We present our work "Realization of Four-Terminal Switching Lattices: Technology Development and Circuit Modeling" in a premier conference on electronic design automation DATE 2019.
    • We present our work "A Satisfiability-Based Approximate Algorithm for Logic Synthesis Using Switching Lattices" in a premier conference on electronic design automation DATE 2019.
    • We present our work "Fault Mitigation of Switching Lattices under the Stuck-At-Fault Model" in LATS 2019.
    • We present our work "Testability of Switching Lattices in the Stuck at Fault Model" in VLSI-Soc 2018.
    • We present our work "Integrated Synthesis Methodology for Crossbar Arrays" in a leading conference on nanocircuits/nanoarchitectures IEEE/ACM-NANOARCH 2018.
    • We present our work "Logic Synthesis and Defect Tolerance for Memristive Crossbar Arrays" in a premier conference on electronic design automation DATE 2018.
    • We present our work "Yield Analysis of Nano-Crossbar Arrays for Uniform and Clustered Defect Distributions" in IEEE-ICECS 2017.
    • We present our work "Composition of Switching Lattices and Autosymmetric Boolean Function Synthesis" in DSD 2017.
    • We present our work "Spintronic Memristor based Offset Cancellation Technique for Sense Amplifiers" in SMACD 2017.
    • We successfully have our midterm review meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland on March 2017. For the agenda click here.
    • We present our work "Computing with Nano-Crossbar Arrays: Logic Synthesis and Fault Tolerance" in a premier conference on electronic design automation DATE 2017.
    • We present our work "Synthesis on Switching Lattices of Dimension-Reducible Boolean Functions" in VLSI-Soc 2016.
    • We present our project and our work on logic synthesis of switching nanoarrays in DSD 2016.
    • We present our work "Power-Delay-Area Performance Modeling and Analysis for Nano-Crossbar Arrays" in IEEE-ISVLSI 2016.
    • We give an invited talk "Circuit Design and Optimization of Nano-Crossbar Arrays" in NanoTR-12.
    • We give a plenary talk "Implementation of a Switching Nano-Crossbar Computer" in ACS 2016.
    • We present and exhibit our EU H2020 project NANOxCOMP in a premier conference on electronic design automation DATE 2016 with over 1000 attendees from academia and industry.


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