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Bit manipulation plays a significant role in high-speed digital signal processing (DSP) and data computing systems, and shift and rotation operations are crucial functions in it. In general, barrel shifters are used to perform these operations effectively. Nano magnetic logic circuits are among the promising beyond-CMOS alternative technologies for the design of high-speed circuits. Most of the existing circuits that have been developed using nano magnets are combinational circuits. In this work, a barrel shifter is implemented and realised using in-plane nano magnetic logic. The proposed design is the first of its kind nano magnetic logic circuit. The nano magnetic logic circuit implementation, layout generation, simulation, and validation were performed using the ToPoliNano and ModelSim tools. The logical equivalent design was synthesised and evaluated using the Synopsys Design Compiler tool. The proposed barrel shifter was realised using majority logic has 1769037 nano magnets with a boxing area of 481 × 13104 <italic>µ</italic>m2 and 3276 clock zones after optimisation with the Barycenter algorithm. The proposed barrel shifter realised using Boolean logic has 315276 nano magnets with a boxing area of 265 × 5028 <italic>µ</italic>m2 and 1257 clock zones after optimisation with the Barycenter algorithm. The proposed design results demonstrate that complex systems can be developed using nano magnetic logic by combining combinational and sequential circuits.
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Bit manipulation plays a significant role in high-speed digital signal processing (DSP) and data computing systems, and shift and rotation operations are crucial functions in it. In general, barrel shifters are used to perform these operations effectively. Nano magnetic logic circuits are among the promising beyond-CMOS alternative technologies for the design of high-speed circuits. Most of the existing circuits that have been developed using nano magnets are combinational circuits. In this work, a barrel shifter is implemented and realised using in-plane nano magnetic logic. The proposed design is the first of its kind nano magnetic logic circuit. The nano magnetic logic circuit implementation, layout generation, simulation, and validation were performed using the ToPoliNano and ModelSim tools. The logical equivalent design was synthesised and evaluated using the Synopsys Design Compiler tool. The proposed barrel shifter was realised using majority logic has 1769037 nano magnets with a boxing area of 481 × 13104 µm2 and 3276 clock zones after optimisation with the Barycenter algorithm. The proposed barrel shifter realised using Boolean logic has 315276 nano magnets with a boxing area of 265 × 5028 µm2 and 1257 clock zones after optimisation with the Barycenter algorithm. The proposed design results demonstrate that complex systems can be developed using nano magnetic logic by combining combinational and sequential circuits.

Design and implementation of a nano magnetic logic barrel shifter using beyond-CMOS technology

Journal of Electrical Engineering

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Bit manipulation plays a significant role in high-speed digital signal processing (DSP) and data computing systems, and shift and rotation operations are...

Design and implementation of a nano magnetic logic barrel shifter using beyond-CMOS technology

Published Online: Mar 12, 2022

Page range: 1 - 10

Received: Dec 12, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2022-0001

Keywords
barrel shifter, Boolean logic, beyond CMOS, majority logic, nano magnets

© 2022 Raja Sekar Kumaresan et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Design and implementation of a nano magnetic logic barrel shifter using beyond-CMOS technology

Published Online: Mar 12, 2022

Page range: 1 - 10

Received: Dec 12, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2022-0001

Keywordsbarrel shifter, Boolean logic, beyond CMOS, majority logic, nano magnets

© 2022 Raja Sekar Kumaresan et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
barrel shifter, Boolean logic, beyond CMOS, majority logic, nano magnets