Danielle Manning's Independent Study Page

Designing A Nanocomputer

Danielle Manning

Department of Computing Sciences
Villanova University
Independent Study Project

Advisor: Dr. Tom Way

Description

This project will research issues surrounding the design of a nanocomputer, and attempt to describe what the architecture of a nanocomputer could be. The design will encompass the features of instruction-level parallel and distributed parallel processing, reconfigurable processors, compiler issues, and massively parallel computing.

Project Schedule

Date	Description	Status
January	Meet with advisor, finalize topic, prepare paperwork, register for independent study	complete
02/17	Create project web site (email link to advisor)	complete
February - May	Research topic online and in library, gather notes, make list of references	complete
05/01	Create paper outline and list current set of references	link to outline and references
05/15	Finish finding topic background information, rough writing	complete
06/15	Meet with advisor (during ofc hours)	complete
June - July	work on research and design, have rough draft of paper complete	link to rough draft
07/01	Meet with advisor (ofc hours)	complete
08/30	write chapter 1 (introduction)	link to current working version
09/15	write chapter 2 (background)	link to current working version
09/22	write chapter 3, meet with advisor	link to current working version
10/14	write chapter 5 (findings)
10/28	write chapter 3 meet with advisor
11/26	finish rewrite of whole thing, submit draft to advisor	link to submitted draft
12/02	Begin to Revise using notes from advisor
12/05	Submit revision back to advisor	link to revised draft
12/12	one more pass with notes
12/13	Deadline for submission of 2 copies of report
12/20	Two copies to Dr. Joyce (make sure advisor submits evaluation)

References

[BAHAR04] R. I. Bahar, J. Chen, and J. Mundy, "A Probabilistic-Based Design for Nanoscale Computation," Chapter 5 in, Nano, Quantum and Molecular Computing: Implications to High Level Design and Validation, Edited by S. Shukla and R.I. Bahar, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.
[BECKETT02] P. Beckett, A. Jennings, "Towards Nanocomputer Architecture", Australian Computer Society, Inc., Seventh Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC2002), Melbourne Australia 2002 Vol. 6, 141-150
[BHADURI04] D. Bhaduri, S. Shukla, "NANOPRISM: A Tool for Evaluating Granularity vs. Reliabilty Trade-offs in Nano Architectures",Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, Boston, MA 2004, 109-112.
[BONSOR00] Kevin Bonsor, "How Nanotechnology Will Work", howstuffworks.com 2000.
[DURBECK00] Lisa J. K. Durbeck and Nicholas J. Macias, "The Cell Matrix: an Architecture For Nanocomputing", Nanotechnology Vol. 12, 2001.
[DURBECK01] Lisa J. K. Durbeck and Nicholas J. Macias, "Defect Tolerant, Fine-Grained Parallel Testing of a Cell Matrix"
[DREXLER03] K. Eric Drexler, "The Future of Nanotechnology: Molecular Manufacturing", EurekaAlert! April 2003
[DREXLER96] K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation (New York: Anchor Books, 1986.)
[FERRY97] David K. Ferry, Stephen Marshall Goodnick, Transport in Nanostructures (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
[FINKLE99] Adam B.A. Finklestein, Matthew K.B. Maennling, Glenn F. Cartwright, "Nanotechnology and Cyberspace: Two roads to the Same City", Ninth General Assembly of the World Future Society, Washington, D.C. July 31, 1999.
[GOLDSTEIN01] Seth Copen Goldstein and Mihai Budhu, "Nanofabrics: Spatial Computing Using Molecular Electronics", Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium of Computer Architecture, 2001, Gotberg, Sweden.
[GOLDSTEIN02] Seth Copen Goldstein and Dan Rosewater, "What Makes A Good Molecular-Scale Computer Device", Carnegie Melon University, September 26, 2002.
[KANELLOS] Michael Kanellos, "Intel Sketches Out Nanotechnology Road Map", CNET, October 25, 2004.
[KUMAR04] A. Kumar, S. Tiwari, "Defect Tolerance for Nanocomputer Architecture", International Workshop on System-Level Interconnect Prediction, Paris, France February 14-15 2004, 89-96.
[KURZWEIL03] Ray Kurzweil, "The Drexler-Smalley Debate on Molecular Assembly"
[LEBECK] Alvin R. Lebeck, Chris Dwyer, Thomas H. LaBean, Jie Liu, Daniel J. Sorin "Nanoarchitecture: Balancing Regularity, Complexity, and Defect Tolerance using DNA for Nanoelectronic Integration (Renewal)" Duke University, 2003.
[LENT] Craig S. Lent, Beth Isaksen, Marya Lieberman, "Molecular Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata" University of Notre Dame, 2002.
[LIEBERMAN] Marya Lieberman, Sudha Chellamma, Bindhu Varughese, Yuliang Wang, Craig Lent, Gary H. Bernstein, Gregory Snider, Frank C. Peiris, "Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata at a Molecular Scale", Annals of the N.Y. Acadamey of Science. 960: 225-239 (2002). University of Notre Dame.
[LIKHAREV] Konstantin K. Likharev, "CMOL: A Silicon-Based Bottom-Up Approach to Nanoelectronics" The Electrochemical Society Interface Spring 2005.
[MACIAS99] Nicholas J. Macias, "The PIG Paradigm: The Design and Use of a Massively Parallel Fine Grained Self-Reconfigurable Infinitely Scalable Architecture", Proceedings of the First NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware 1999.
[MCKEND05] T. McKendree, "The Logical Core Architecture", Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology
[METZ] Cade Metz, "The 3-Atom Thick Transistor", PC Magazine, June 2001.
[NAIR] R. Nair, "Effect of Increasing Chip Density on the Evolution of Computer Architectures" IBM Journal of Research and Development Volume 46, No. 2/3 March/May 2002.
[PATWARDHAN] Jaidev Patwardhan, Chris Dwyer, Alvin R. Lebeck, Daniel J. Sorin, "Circuit and System Architecture for DNA-Guided Self-Assembly of Nanoelectronics", Proceedings of the 1st Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices p. 344-358, April 2004.
[PHOENIX03] Chris Phoenix, "Design of a Primitive Nanofactory", Journal of Evolution and Technology December 3, 2003.
[TIMP98] Gregory Timp, Nanotechnology (New York, NY: Springer, 1998).
[TURLEY] Jim Turley, "CPU Design is Dead. Long Live CPU Design", Embedded Systems Programming, Vol 12, No. 3, March, 1999.
[SANDBERG] Oskar Sandberg, "Markov Random Fields and Gibbs Measures", Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden, December 14, 2004.
[STAN03] Mircea R. Stan, Paul D. Franzon, Seth Copen Goldstein, John C. Lach, Matthew M. Ziegler, "Molecular Electronics: From Devices and Interconnect to Circuits and Architecture", Proceedings of the IEEE Vol. 91, No. 11, November 2003.
[WALLIS92] Roberta Wallis, "Nanotechnology: The Library of Congress in Your Pocket", Library & Information Technology Association (New York: American Library Association, 1992)
[WANG04] Teng Wang, Zhenghua Qi, Casaba Andras Moritz "Opportunities and Challenges in Application-Tuned Circuits and Architectures Based on Nanodevices", Computer Frontiers, Italy, April 2004.
[WIKI] Wikipedia, Entry for CMOS

updated 11/26/05