Automatic object model generation for nanoelectronics using C++ meta programming. Issue 24 (1st November 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Peng, Fei; Xiao, Zhenjie; Xu, Dong; Huang, Jianhong; Xie, Guangjun
• Is Part Of: Electronics letters. Volume 55:Issue 24(2019)
• Page Start: 1286
• Page End: 1288
• Publication Date: 2019-11-01
• Subjects: data structures -- cellular automata -- nanoelectronics -- electronic design automation -- C++ language; automatic object model generation -- nanoelectronics -- nanodevices -- device aspect -- algorithm aspect -- common object model -- data structure -- specific nanodevice -- algorithm researchers -- template meta programming -- concrete object model -- research interests -- design automation algorithms -- abstraction levels; Electronics -- Periodicals; 621.381
• DOI: 10.1049/el.2019.1861
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-5194

Abstract

Abstract : Since the development of nanoelectronics is at its early stage, a lot of different devices have been proposed. Accompanying the increasing research interests in nanodevices, developing effective design automation algorithms in different abstraction levels becomes an urgent need. However, the prosperity in the device aspect results a unique difficulty in the algorithm aspect, i.e. it is hard to provide a common object model, data structure used in design automation algorithms, for a specific nanodevice. To freeing algorithm researchers from developing different object models with only minor differences in different algorithms, the authors propose a method of creating object model automatically through C++ template meta programming. A concrete object model for quantum‐dot cellular automata is illustrated as an example.