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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 details title: Synthesis and Performance Optimization of a Switching Nano-Crossbar Computer acronym: NANOxCOMP principal investigator / coordinator: Mustafa Altun, Istanbul Technical University partner(s): Dr. Dan Alexandrescu, IROC Techonogies, Grenoble, France Prof. Lorena Anghel, TIMA Lab., Grenoble, France Prof. Valentina Ciriani, ALOS Lab., University of Milan, Italy. Prof. Csaba A. Moritz, Nanoscale Computing Fabrics Lab., University of Massachusetts, USA Prof. Kaushik Roy, Nanoelectronics Research Lab., Purdue University, USA Prof. Mircea Stan, High-Performance Low-Power Lab., University of Virginia, USA Prof. Mehdi B. Tahoori, Dependable Nano-Computing Group, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany funding agency & program: European Union/European Commission H2020 MCSA Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Program (RISE) 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. PRESENTATIONS Slides SPACE Poster

Project news We present our work "Computing with Nano-Crossbar Arrays: Logic Synthesis and Fault Tolerance" in a premier conference on electronic design automation DATE 2017. Our paper is accepted in a leading journal in design automation IEEE TCAD. We give an invited talk "EU H2020 Success Story" in H2020 MSCA 2016 Istanbul Training & Info Event. 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 ACT 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. We publish a book chapter "Computing with Emerging Nanotechnologies" in a book Low-Dimensional and Nanostructured Materials and Devices. If interested in our group, please contact Mustafa at altunmus@itu.edu.tr or stop by EEF 3005 (coffee guaranteed).