Shruti Patil
David J. Lilja
ABSTRACT
Exciting developments are taking place in the field of spintronics, particularly with the advances in the fabrication and characterization of devices such as Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJ). The distinction of spintronic devices from conventional electronic devices makes it challenging to design efficient, scalable and low power logic circuits with MTJs. We propose a programmable and scalable technique to design MTJ-based logic circuits that are capable of implementing any 2-input logic truth table. We present the energy-delay trade-offs of this design with respect to circuit parameters. We also demonstrate that this circuit can be scaled to a 6-input logic function without incurring an increase in the energy consumption.
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- A programmable and scalable technique to design spintronic logic circuits based on magnetic tunnel junctions
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