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Multi-bit non-volatile spintronic flip-flop

Münch et al., 2018

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Document ID
13501240729259549641
Author
Münch C
Bishnoi R
Tahoori M
Publication year
Publication venue
2018 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)

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As leakage increases proportionally with the technology downscaling, it becomes extremely challenging to manage to meet the total power budget. This is because, CMOS-based logic blocks can not be completely power-gated as their flip-flops always require a retention …
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