%0 Electronic Article
%A S.D. Pyle
%+ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
%A H. Li
%+ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
%A R.F. DeMara
%+ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
%K compact low-power instant store D flip-flop
%K self-complementing spintronic device
%K overhead interfacing circuitry reduction
%K restore D flip-flop
%K self-complementing device
%K ultra-low-power architectures
%K five-terminal spintronic device
%K transistors
%K D F/F
%K low-power nonvolatile flip-flops
%K power-gating requirements
%K design strategy
%X To simplify power-gating requirements in ultra-low-power architectures, design strategies for low-power non-volatile flip-flops (F/Fs) are sought, for which the utilisation of spintronic devices offers a promising option. A D F/F that utilises a five-terminal spintronic device for non-volatile state holding in an intrinsically self-complementing fashion is introduced. This self-complementing device can be exploited to reduce overhead interfacing circuitry in order to realise a compact ten transistors with one spintronic device D F/F with instant store and restore functionality, while consuming <9 µW of power.
%@ 0013-5194
%T Compact low-power instant store and restore D flip-flop using a self-complementing spintronic device
%B Electronics Letters
%D July 2016
%V 52
%N 14
%P 1238-1240
%I Institution of Engineering and Technology
%U https://digital-library.theiet.org/;jsessionid=1g4q7nlju8dte.x-iet-live-01content/journals/10.1049/el.2015.4114
%G EN