Energy Efficient Logic and Memory Design With Beyond-CMOS Magnetoelectric Spin–Orbit (MESO) Technology Toward Ultralow Supply Voltage

Devices based on the spin as the fundamental computing unit provide a promising beyond-complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) device option, thanks to their energy efficiency and compatibility with CMOS. One such option is a magnetoelectric spin–orbit (MESO)...

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Main Authors: Rohit Rothe, Hai Li, Dmitri E. Nikonov, Ian A. Young, Kyojin Choo, David Blaauw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2023-01-01
Series:IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10272647/
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Summary:Devices based on the spin as the fundamental computing unit provide a promising beyond-complementary metal&#x2013;oxide&#x2013;semiconductor (CMOS) device option, thanks to their energy efficiency and compatibility with CMOS. One such option is a magnetoelectric spin&#x2013;orbit (MESO) device, an attojoule-class emerging technology promising to extend Moore&#x2019;s law. This article presents circuit design and optimization techniques, such as device stacking and a canary circuit-based asynchronous clock pulse generation scheme for MESO device technology. With these targeted circuit techniques, the MESO energy efficiency can be improved by <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\sim 1.5\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>. Novel architectures for arithmetic logic and effective realization of in-memory computing are also proposed that utilize the unique properties of this promising new technology.
ISSN:2329-9231