Overview of Circuits, Systems, and Applications of Spintronics

Swaroop Ghosh, Anirudh Iyengar, Seyedhamidreza Motaman, Rekha Govindaraj, Jae Won Jang, Jinil Chung, Jongsun Park, Xin Li, Rajiv Joshi, Dinesh Somasekhar

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Abstract

Spintronic technologies have demonstrated significant promise due to multitude of features that can find applications in storage, cache, non-volatile combinational logic, sequential logic, search engines, security primitives, and, neuro-inspired computing to name a few. This paper reviews well-known spintronic devices, and circuits and systems that exploit their special properties for novel applications. Analysis indicates substantial benefits in area, energy-efficiency and performance compared to conventional complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7563983
Pages (from-to)265-268
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
Volume6
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016 Sept

Keywords

  • Associative computing
  • convolutional neural network
  • digital signal processor
  • domain wall memory
  • embedded memory
  • hardware security
  • spin-transfer torque RAM (STTRAM)
  • spintronics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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