CAEN : Chemically assembled electronicNanotechnology

NWs : nanowires

ECCs : error-correcting codes

VLSI: Very-large-scale integration

SSI : small-scale integration

LSI : large-scale integration

ULSI : Ultra-large-scale Integration

IC : Integrated circuit

ASIC : Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

FPGA: A field-programmable gate array

SoC : systems on chips

ADCs : Analog-to-Digital Converters

DACs: Digital-to-Analog Converters

FPD : Field-Programmable Device

PLA : Programmable Logic Array

PAL : Programmable Array Logic

PROM : Programmable Read-Only Memory

MPGAs : Mask-Programmable Gate Arrays

CAD : Computer Aided Design

AMD : Advanced Micro Devices

GLBs : Generic Logic Blocks

GRP : Global Routing Pool

EDA : electronic design automation

PAR : place-and-route

ARQ : Automatic repeat request

FEC : Forward error correction