ABSTRACT
Nanoelectronics is still at its infancy. The greater part of texts are discussing physical and the device-physical aspects, and focus on the transport phenomena and basic potential device properties. A minority describe basic electronic circuits, for example [van Roermund and Hoekstra (2000)J and in [Csurgay and Porod (2004, 2007)]. Only few go higher and describe system aspects. The use of nanoelectronics is motivated by several aspects. First of all, the basic devices can be small. Second, it has the potency to operate with very low supply power. Third, the quantum properties that appear at nanoscale in principle represent an increase in signal-processing power. Together, this promises a increase in processing power for future "chips" at very low dissipation. We "just" have to be able to manage it; we will have to exploit the new properties. This vision is opposite, in that sense, to the conventional evolutionary approach that still sticks to the conventional MOS transistor and that tries to counteract the effects that are introduced by the sizing, instead of using them. Both views have in common that they see shrinking down to nanoscale dimensions as inevitable. Having said this, a first introduction to nanoelectronic circuit design methodologies is presented.
