Method for reducing the size and nanowire length used in nanowire crossbars without reducing the number of nanowire junctions
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorGregory Snider
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Abstract
Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods for designing multilayer nanowire crossbars that are functionally equivalent to two-layer nanowire-crossbar designs. Given a two-layer nanowire-crossbar design having two or more columns of microregions, in certain embodiments, the method conceptually folds the two-layer nanowire crossbar between columns of microregions. The folded nanowires, located in the conceptually folded, two-layer nanowire-crossbar design, are collapsed into shorter length nanowires to give a multilayer nanowire-crossbar design that includes the same number of nanowire junctions as in the two-layer nanowire-crossbar design.
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A method for designing a multilayer nanowire-crossbar design that is functionally equivalent to a two-layer nanowire crossbars design, the method comprising:
- receiving a two-layer nanowire-crossbar design having two or more microregions;
- folding the two-layer nanowire-crossbar design between the two or more microregions;
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- collapsing folded nanowires into single nanowires.
A computer instruction encoded in a computer readable medium that folds a two-layer nanowire crossbars design to give a multilayer crossbar design by:
- receiving a two-layer nanowire-crossbar design having two or more microregions data set;
- folding the two-layer nanowire-crossbar design between the two or more microregions;
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- collapsing folded nanowires into single nanowires.
A system for designing a multilayer nanowire crossbar that is functionally equivalent to a two-layer nanowire crossbars design, the system comprising:
- a computer processor;
- a communications medium by which a two-layer nanowire-crossbar design having two or more microregions is received;
- a program, stored in one or more memory components and executed by the computer processor that folds the two-layer nanowire-crossbar design between the two or more microregions;
- and collapses the folded nanowires into single nanowires.
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