Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is one of the emerging technologies that have been advocated to overcome the physical limitations of CMOS in the nano ranges. For QCA to be a viable alternative to CMOS in the decades ahead, tools and methodologies at physical and logic levels are urgently needed in support of all design phases. The HDLM project is an an HDL based framework and related models to simulate and assess magnetic QCA (MQCA). The project extends a currently available tool for electrostatic QCA, thus adding new capabilities related to MQCA. In particular HDLM is used to design and characterize both the functionally complete gate set and few specific structures that have proposed for the operation of MQCA. Models and functions are proposed for the MQCA cell and the building blocks.

The source code is available here: HDLM

It can be also downloaded by svn using the following command

svn co  http://dftgroupsvn.uniroma2.it/svn/HDLM