Emitter-coupled spin-transistor logic

Joseph S. Friedman*, John A. Peters, Gokhan Memik, Bruce W Wessels, Alan Varteres Sahakian

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Abstract

The recent invention of magnetoresistive bipolar spin-transistors makes possible the creation of new spintronic logic families. Here we propose the first logic family exploiting these devices, extending emitter-coupled logic (ECL) to achieve a greater range of basis logic functions. By placing the wire from the output stage of ECL logic elements near spin-transistors in other logic stages throughout the circuit, additional basis logic elements can be realized. These new logic elements support greater logic minimization, resulting in enhanced speed, area, and power characteristics. A novel magnetic shielding structure provides this logic family with the crucial ability to cascade logic stages. This logic family potentially achieves a power-delay product 10-25 times smaller than conventional ECL, and can therefore be exploited to increase the performance of very high-speed logic circuits while broadening the range of design choices for a variety of electronic applications.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2461-2469
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Volume74
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2014

Funding

Gokhan Memik is an Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Northwestern University. He received the B.S. degree in computer engineering in 1998 from Bogazici University and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2003. He is the author of 2 book chapters and over 100 refereed journal/conference publications. Papers co-authored by him have been nominated for a best paper award at DAC (2005) and MICRO (2008) and won the Best Student Paper Award at Supercomputing (2007). He has served on over 30 program committees, was the co-chair for the Advanced Networking and Communications Hardware Workshop (ANCHOR) and the program co-chair of 2007 International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-40). He is also an associate editor of the International Journal on Reconfigurable Computing. Gokhan Memik is the recipient of the Wissner-Slivka Junior Chair (2006–2009), National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2008–2013), and Department of Energy Early CAREER PI Award (2005–2008).

Keywords

  • Beyond-CMOS
  • Bipolar magnetoresistive semiconductor heterojunction transistor
  • Magnetic bipolar transistor
  • Magnetoresistance
  • Magnetoresistive transistor
  • Spintronic logic
  • Spintronics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Artificial Intelligence

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