Why Should We Care About Bounds – Consecutive Systems Revisited

A revived interest on consecutive systems due to novel nano-architectures (where reliability estimates are of high interest) as well as particular nanoscale communications (where the reliability of transmission needs to be assessed) is to be expected. The reason is that certain nano-technologies, like, e.g., molecular ones (but also magnetic and even FinFETs) could be mapped onto consecutive systems. This paper will start by reviewing bounds for such systems and will then use these bounds to perform quite accurate simulations of large consecutive systems, showing that bounds could be very useful in the exploratory phase, for getting a quick and crude understanding of the reliability of future (e.g., molecular, magnetic and FinFETs) nano-architectures.