Paper Info
Title
A magnetoelectronic macrocell employing reconfigurable threshold logic
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a reconfigurable fabric based around a new class of circuit element: the hybrid Hall effect (HHE) magnetoelectronic device. Because they incorporate a ferromagnetic element, HHE devices are inherently non-volatile, retaining their state without a power supply. In addition, HHE devices are extremely well-suited to implementing threshold logic circuits, which allows many complex logic functions to be implemented in fewer gates than are required in systems based on AND-OR logic. We present the design of an HHE-based reconfigurable macrocell based on two-level threshold logic that can be configured on a cycle-by-cycle basis while internally storing non-volatile configuration data and computation state. The performance of this macrocell is characterized, and compared to that of competing technologies, showing that it has a significantly better power-delay product when implementing complex functions of many inputs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/968280.968301
FPGA
Keywords
Field
DocType
hhe device,threshold logic circuit,hhe-based reconfigurable macrocell,complex function,ferromagnetic element,two-level threshold logic,circuit element,complex logic function,reconfigurable threshold logic,magnetoelectronic macrocell,and-or logic,computation state,hall effect,lookup table
Lookup table,Logic gate,Pass transistor logic,Logic optimization,Computer science,Parallel computing,Real-time computing,Logic family,Macrocell,Computation,Macrocell array
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-829-6
2
0.43
References 
Authors
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steve P. Ferrera120.77
Nicholas P. Carter234933.84