High density and high speed magneto-electronic logic family

Details High density and high speed magneto-electronic logic family High density and high speed magneto-electronic logic family

1998-05-07

2000-10-31

Tokar, Michael

Electronic digital logic circuitry

Multifunctional or programmable

Array

326 47, 326136, G06F 738

Patent

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061408387

ABSTRACT:
A number of novel new devices and circuits are disclosed utilizing configurable magneto-electronic elements such as magnetic spin transistors and hybrid hall effect devices. Such magneto-electronic elements can be used as building blocks of an entirely new family of electronic devices for performing functions not easily implementable with semiconductor based device. A number of examples are provided, including logic gates that can be programmed to perform different boolean logic operations at different periods of time. Logic devices and circuits incorporating such logic gates have a number of operational advantages and benefits over conventional semiconductor based technologies, including the fact that traditional signal logic operations can be implemented with substantially fewer active elements. A conventional boolean function unit, for example, can be constructed with 2 magneto-electronic elements, and 2 semiconductor elements, which is a 400% improvement over prior art pure semiconductor based technologies.

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