Title :
Threshold Gate-Based Circuits From Nanomagnetic Logic
Author :
Papp, Adam ; Niemier, Michael T. ; Csurgay, Arpad ; Becherer, Markus ; Breitkreutz, Stephan ; Kiermaier, Josef ; Eichwald, Irina ; Hu, Xiaobo Sharon ; Xueming Ju ; Porod, Wolfgang ; Csaba, Gyorgy
Author_Institution :
Center for Nano Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
Abstract :
This paper demonstrates the design of nanomagnetic logic (NML) gates with multiple weighted inputs, which are magnetic equivalents of threshold logic gates (TLGs). We use micromagnetic simulations to show that NML TLGs can be constructed with minimum overhead compared to standard NML gates, and they significantly reduce device footprint and interconnection complexity of magnetic logic circuits. As an example, we design a full adder circuit using said TLGs and compare its performance to majority-gate-based NML.
Keywords :
cobalt; logic circuits; logic gates; magnetic logic; magnetic multilayers; micromagnetics; platinum; threshold logic; Co-Pt; device footprint; full adder circuit; interconnection complexity; magnetic logic circuits; micromagnetic simulations; minimum overhead; multiple weighted inputs; nanomagnetic threshold logic gates; threshold gate-based circuits; Adders; Logic gates; Magnetic circuits; Magnetic domains; Magnetic hysteresis; Magnetostatics; Switches; Co/Pt multilayers; majority logic; nanomagnetic logic (NML); threshold gate;
Journal_Title :
Nanotechnology, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNANO.2014.2342659
