Design of Different Digital Circuits Using Single Electron Devices

Abstract

Single Electron transistor (SET) is foreseen as an excellently growing technology. The aim of this paper is to present in short the fundamentals of SET as well as to realize its application in the design of single electron device based novel digital logic circuits with the help of a Monte Carlo based simulator. A Single Electron Transistors (SET) is characterized by two most substantial determinants. One is very low power dissipation while the other is its small stature that makes it a favorable suitor for the future generation of very high level integration. With the utilization of SET, technology is moving past CMOS age resulting in power efficient, high integrity, handy and high speed devices. Conducting a check on the transport of single electrons is one of the most stirring aspects of SET technologies. Apparently, Monte Carlo technique is in vogue in terms of simulating SED based circuits. Hence, a MC based tool called SIMON 2.0 is exercised upon for the design and simulation of these digital logic circuits. Further, an efficient functioning of the logic circuits such as multiplexers, decoders, adders and converters are illustrated and established by means of circuit simulation using SIMON 2.0 simulator.