Energy efficient reconfigurable threshold logic circuit with spintronic devices

Zhezhi He, Deliang Fan

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Abstract

A Threshold Logic Gate (TLG) performs weighted summation of multiple binary inputs and compares the summation with a threshold. Different logic functions can be implemented by reconfiguring the weights and threshold of the same TLG circuit. This paper introduces a novel design of reconfigurable Spintronic Threshold Logic Gate (STLG), which employs spintronic weight devices to perform current-mode weighted summation of binary inputs, whereas, the low voltage fast switching spintronic threshold device carries out the threshold operation in an energy efficient manner. The proposed STLG operates at a small terminal voltage of 50 mV, resulting in ultra-low energy consumption. A bottom-up cross-layer simulation framework is developed to synthesize and map large scale digital logic functions to the proposed STLG circuits. The simulation results of ISCAS-85 benchmarks show that the proposed STLG based reconfigurable logic hardware can achieve two orders lower Energy-Delay Product (EDP) compared with state-of-the-art CMOS Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), and smaller EDP compared to large scale Memristive Threshold Logic (MTL) based FPGA. Moreover, the ultra-low programming energy of spintronic weight device also leads to three orders lower reconfiguration energy of STLG compared to MTL design.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number7779139
Pages (from-to)223-237
Number of pages15
JournalIEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
Volume5
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Magnetic domain wall strip
  • Magnetic tunnel junction
  • Reconfigurable logic
  • Spintronic
  • Threshold Logic

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)
  • Information Systems
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Science Applications

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