Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: COMPUTING DESIGN WITH NANOTECHNOLOGIES

Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (COMP 311 OR COMP 412) AND (COMP 421 OR COMP 429 OR ELEC 429)

Description: CMOS transistors, building elements of modern computing are entering the nanometer era. This course aims at providing basic knowledge of nanotechnologies-based computing. It starts with addressing immediate challenges facing CMOS-based computing. It then covers emerging non-standard CMOS and non CMOS devices, their physical properties, fabrications, circuit design, and impacts on the existing design flow and computing paradigms. Cross-list: CHEM 527, COMP 537.