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High performance SoC design using magnetic logic and memory

  • Weisheng Zhao*
  • , Lionel Torres
  • , Luís Vitório Cargnini
  • , Raphael Martins Brum
  • , Yue Zhang
  • , Yoann Guillemenet
  • , Gilles Sassatelli
  • , Yahya Lakys
  • , Jacques Olivier Klein
  • , Daniel Etiemble
  • , Dafiné Ravelosona
  • , Claude Chappert
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • University of Montpellier
  • CNRS

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Abstract

As the technolody node shrinks down to 90nm and below, high standby power becomes one of the major critical issues for CMOS highspeed computing circuits (e.g. logic and cache memory) due to the high leakage currents. A number of non-volatile storage technologies, such as FRAM, MRAM, PCRAM and RRAM, are under investigation to bring the non-volatility into the logic circuits and then eliminate completely the standby power issue. Thanks to its infinite endurance, high switching/sensing speed and easy integration on top of CMOS process, MRAM is considered as the most promising one. Numerous logic circuits based on MRAM technology have been proposed and prototyped in the last years. In this paper, we present an overview and current status of these logic circuits and discuss their potential applications in the future from both physical and architectural points of view.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationVLSI-SoC
Subtitle of host publicationAdvanced Research for Systems on Chip - 19th IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2011, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer New York LLC
Pages10-33
Number of pages24
ISBN (Print)9783642327698
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event19th IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2011 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 3 Oct 20115 Oct 2011

Publication series

NameIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume379 AICT
ISSN (Print)1868-4238

Conference

Conference19th IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period3/10/115/10/11

Keywords

  • MRAM
  • Magnetic Logic
  • Non-volatile CPU
  • Reconfigurable logic

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