ABSTRACT
Nanoelectronics is still at its infancy. The greater part of texts
discuss 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) and 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 the nanoscale in principle represent an increase in signal-
processing power. Together, this promises an 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 one thing in common-
they see shrinking down to nanoscale dimensions as inevitable.
Having said this, a first introduction to nanoelectronic circuit design
methodologies is presented.
