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An MTJ-Based Asynchronous System With Extremely Fine-Grained Voltage Scaling.
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IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems. Part I: Regular Papers . Jan2021, Vol. 68 Issue 1, p311-321. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- In this work, we present an asynchronous MTJ-CMOS hybrid system with extremely fine-grained voltage scaling (EFGVS) technique. The supply voltage of the system is turned on/off by asynchronous bundled-data handshake signals. The MTJ write circuit is variation robust, self-terminated and redundant-write preventing. Besides, EFGVS and asynchronous data driven handshake enhance the timing robustness by removing the matching delay elements and reducing timing assumptions. The completion detection circuitry is also simplified. A RISC processor with proposed techniques is designed and fabricated by 55nm technology. The voltage supplies are turned on/off within tens of picoseconds. The energy for writing MTJs is 0.45pJ. The tolerance of the minimum TMR due to process variation is 75%. Sleep mode leakage power can be reduced over 10 $\times$ by powering off modules with the Break-even Time of 23.6 ns. Because of the extremely fine-grained voltage scaling, no more than 20% of the modules are powered on during the execution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *HYBRID systems
*OPTICAL wavelength conversion
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15498328
- Volume :
- 68
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems. Part I: Regular Papers
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 148108035
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2020.3036011