The OpenSource MolPDK

The Open Source Molecular Field-Coupled Nanocomputing (MolFCN) Physical Design Kit, managed by the Quantum and Nanosystem (QNANO) at Politecnico di Torino, provides a set of PDKs for the Molecular Field-Coupled (MolFCN) technology.

Libraries

Here listed all the PDKs listed in the Open Source Molecular Field-Coupled Nanocomputing (MolFCN) Physical Design Kit:

MolPDK-SIM(7): 4 logic devices (AND, OR, Majority Voter, and Inverter) and 3 connections (bus, L, and T). Validated through SCERPA simulation on an ideal molecule. Standard gate: 400 nm² subdivided in a 10 x 10 grid of 2 nm² MolFCN cells, intermolecular distance fixed to 1 nm. Compatible with Fiction and SCERPA-based tools.

Contributors

The MolPDK received the contribution from many people. In alphabetical order: Yuri Ardesi (POLITO), Giuliana Beretta (POLITO), Mariagrazia Graziano (POLITO), Benjamin Hien (TUM), Roberto Listo (POLITO), Gianluca Piccinini (POLITO), Danilo Quinci (POLITO), Federico Ravera (POLITO), Fabrizio Riente (POLITO), Marco Vacca (POLITO), Marcel Walter (TUM), Robert Wille (TUM).

The single PDKs are developed by specific people:

• SIM(7) was developed by Benjamin Hien (TUM), Danilo Quinci (POLITO), Yuri Ardesi (POLITO), Giuliana Beretta (POLITO), Federico Ravera (POLITO), Marcel Walter (TUM), Robert Wille (TUM).

Citation

If you use need to cite The-OpenSource-MolPDK you can cite it with the zenodo code:

Yuri Ardesi, Giuliana Beretta, Mariagrazia Graziano, Benjamin Hien, Roberto Listo, Gianluca Piccinini, Danilo Quinci, Federico Ravera, Fabrizio Riente, Marco Vacca, Marcel Walter, Robert Wille,“vlsi-nanocomputing/The-OpenSource-MolPDK: v1.0”. Zenodo, Oct. 10, 2025. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17311212.

Also available in the BibTeX format:

@software{MolPDK,
  author       = {Ardesi, Yuri and
                  Beretta, Giuliana and
                  Graziano, Mariagrazia and
                  Hien, Benjamin and
                  Listo, Roberto and
                  Piccinini, Gianluca and
                  Quinci, Danilo and
                  Ravera, Federico and
                  Riente, Fabrizio and
                  Vacca, Marco and
                  Walter, Marcel and
                  Wille, Robert},
  title        = {vlsi-nanocomputing/The-OpenSource-MolPDK: v1.0},
  month        = oct,
  year         = 2025,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v1.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.17311212},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17311212},
}

Citations for the single libraries and tools can be found in their repositories.

Installation

The PDKs of The OpenSource MolPDK can be installed separately, by visiting specific repositories, or all together with:

git clone https://github.com/vlsi-nanocomputing/The-OpenSource-MolPDK.git

Changelog

• Version 1.0: Created the MolPDK
  • Added MolPDK-SIM(7) - v1
  • Created the MolPDK