RECONFIGURABLE LOGICAL CIRCUIT USING TRANSISTOR HAVING SPIN-DEPENDENT TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTIC

摘要

A nonvolatilely reconfigurable logical circuit is built. It is a reconfigurable logical circuit based on the CMOS configuration using the spin MOSFET By changing the transmission characteristic of each transistor in accordance with the magnetization states of Tr1, Tr2, Tr5, and Tr8 which are spin MOSFETs, it is possible to reconfigure all the two-input symmetric functions AND/OR/XOR/NAND/NOR/XNOR/" 1" /" 0" . Since it is possible to constitute the logical function by a small number of non-volatile elements, it is possible to reduce the chip area, thereby increasing the speed and reducing the power consumption. <IMAGE>