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International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 352428, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/352428
Research Article

Design of a Reconfigurable Pulsed Quad-Cell for Cellular-Automata-Based Conformal Computing

Mariam Hoseini,1 Zhou Tan,1 Chao You,1 and Mark Pavicic2

1Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58102, USA
2Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58102, USA

Received 22 November 2009; Revised 1 April 2010; Accepted 28 June 2010

Academic Editor: Paul Chow

Copyright © 2010 Mariam Hoseini et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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