Design of MRAM based logic circuits and its applications

  • Authors:
  • Weisheng Zhao;Lionel Torres;Yoann Guillemenet;Luís Vitório Cargnini;Yahya Lakys;Jacques-Olivier Klein;Dafine Ravelosona;Gilles Sassatelli;Claude Chappert

  • Affiliations:
  • IEF, Univ. Paris-Sud 11 & CNRS, Orsay, France;LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier 2 & CNRS, Montpellier, France;LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier 2 & CNRS, Montpellier, France;LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier 2 & CNRS, Montpellier, France;IEF, Univ. Paris-Sud 11 & CNRS, Orsay, France;IEF, Univ. Paris-Sud 11 & CNRS, Orsay, France;IEF, Univ. Paris-Sud 11 & CNRS, Orsay, France;LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier 2 & CNRS, Montpellier , France;IEF, Univ. Paris-Sud 11 & CNRS, Orsay, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 21st edition of the great lakes symposium on Great lakes symposium on VLSI
  • Year:
  • 2011

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

As the fabrication technology node shrinks down to 90nm or below, high standby power becomes one of the major critical issues for CMOS logic circuits due to the high leakage currents. A number of non-volatile storage technologies such as FRAM, MRAM, PCRAM and RRAM and so on, are under investigation to bring the non-volatility into the logic circuits and then eliminate completely the standby power issue. Thanks to its infinite endurance, high switching/sensing speed and easy 3D integration after CMOS process, MRAM is considered as the most promising one. Numerous logic circuits based on MRAM technology have been proposed and prototyped in the last years. In this paper, we present an overview and current status of these logic circuits and their potential applications in the future.