Patent ID: 7257016
Filing Date: 2007-08-14
Classification: B82Y,G11C,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A nanowire-crossbar latch array for storing input signals, the nanowire-crossbar latch array comprising: a number of signal wires; a first enable line crossing each signal wire, the first enable line interconnected to each signal wire by one of a field-effect-transistor nanowire junction and a high resistance nanowire junction, the first enable line controlling input-signal transmission in any of the signal wires to which the first enable line is interconnected by a field-effect transistor; a second enable line crossing each signal wire, the second enable line interconnected to each signal wire, the second enable line interconnected to a given signal wire by a field-effect-transistor nanowire junction when the first enable line is connected to the given signal wire by a high resistance nanowire junction, the second enable line interconnected to a given signal wire by a high resistance nanowire junction when the first enable line is connected to the given signal wire by a field-effect transistor; a first control line crossing each signal wire, the first control line interconnected to each signal wire by an asymmetric switch of a first type; and a second control line crossing each signal wire, the second control line interconnected to each signal wire by an asymmetric switch of a second type.