Objective
Much world-wide effort is being devoted to research into nanoelectronic and nanophotonics devices, but less effort is being applied to examining system architectures, which might use these devices to best advantage. Such research is needed, so that present-day increases in computing power can be extended into the future. To achieve such increases will be a major technological challenge, and proactive research and planning is needed now. Some unanswered technical questions are: Can devices be assembled into ultra-high density circuits? Are any of these devices fundamentally unsuitable? Will factors such as size variations affect performance? Can manufacturing faults and transient errors be overcome using fault tolerance? Will the circuits have better performance than CMOS-type circuits? Will nanoscale circuits be cheaper than CMOS? Besides these technical questions, two other questions must also be asked: What systems research is being carried out now, and what gaps are there? - and are there enough trained people in Europe who are capable of solving these problems? Some but not all of these questions are being looked at under existing EC initiatives.
We therefore propose a survey which, starting from the existing EC Nanoelectronics Roadmap, would report on existing European expertise in the following areas:
1. existing and proposed nanoelectronic/photonic devices;
2. small circuits: theory and practice;
3. ultralarge circuits: theory and practice;
4. conventional architectural concepts;
5. unconventional concepts;
6. new concepts;
7. known problems;
8. 'system on a chip' and 3D systems;
9. applications: performance requirements;
10. availability and training of human resources.
The report will suggest topics where further effort might be applied, ranging from basic theoretical research, through device/circuit fabrication techniques, to possible training and research workshops. Information will also be provided on US and Pacific Rim activity.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology nanotechnology nanophotonics
- engineering and technology nanotechnology nanoelectronics
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Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
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Coordinator
WC1E 6BT LONDON
United Kingdom
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