Table of Contents

Nanometer Scale Technologies: Device Considerations.- Nanocomputing in the Presence of Defects and Faults: A Survey.- Defect Tolerance at the End of the Roadmap.- Obtaining Quadrillion-Transistor Logic Systems Despite Imperfect Manufacture, Hardware Failure, and Incomplete System Specification.- A Probabilistic-Based Design for Nanoscale Computation.- Tools and Techniques for Evaluating Reliability Trade-Offs for Nano-Architectures.- Law of Large Numbers System Design.- Challenges in Reliable Quantum Computing.- Origins and Motivations for Design Rules in QCA.- Partitioning and Placement for Buildable QCA Circuits.- Verification of Large Scale Nano Systems with Unreliable Nano Devices.

Reviews

"This book will serve a unique purpose. Several times over the past few years I have had students ask me to point them toward literature references on defect tolerant architectures for nano-electronics, or nanoelectronics design concepts, etc. For quantum computing and neural nets, well established research communities exist and such references are easy to point to. For some of these other paradigms, papers often appear in journals that biologists, chemists, materials scientists, physicists, etc., rarely encounter - or, worse yet - students must turn to patent literature! This book brings together, for the first time, many of these modern architectural concepts into a single text, with chapters written by a terrific group of experts. It is sure to become a mainstay in my group, and I expect that it will be a valuable resource for many years to come."
(Jim Heath, Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor, California Institute of Technology)