Chain/leapfrog circuit topologies and tools for carbon nanotube/graphene nanoribbon nanoelectronics, printed electronics, polymer electronics, and their confluences

摘要

Software for designing and testing types of nanoelectronic circuits and larger scale electronics renderings is described. The software designs circuits comprising only a chain/leapfrog topology. The chain/leapfrog topology permits a wide range of circuits and circuit modules to be implemented on a common shared carbon nanotube, graphene nanoribbon, or strips of other types of semiconducting material, for example as rendered in traditional printed electronics and nanoscale printed electronics or as employing semiconducting polymers. In one approach a chain/leapfrog topology circuit design software tool accesses information in a library of chain/leapfrog circuits data, and creates descriptive data pertaining to a number of approaches to rendering electronics components using a library of component data. The chain/leapfrog circuits data library includes designs for a number of different types of chain/leapfrog circuit modules. The software provides for “IP cores,” “System-on-a-Nanotube,” and other related modular design approaches.