%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