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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.

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): Dr. Dan Alexandrescu, IROC Techonogies, France Prof. Lorena Anghel, TIMA Lab., France (partnership terminated) 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. Georgios Sirakoulis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece (new partner) 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 MSCA Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Program (RISE) RISE Video 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 SPACE Video 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. 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 showcase our project in a YouTube video. 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 publicly introduce our project in Science Unites All (SCI-ALL) 2017 - European Researchers' Night Event. 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 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 organize the National Workshop on Logic Synthesis, July 2016 with introducing our project and preliminary research results. 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.