Abstract
The switching time of a magnet in a spin current based majority gate depends on the input vector combination, and this often restricts the speed of majority-based circuits. To address this issue, this work proposes a novel two-phase scheme to implement majority logic and evaluates it on an all-spin logic (ASL) majority-based logic structures. In Phase 1, the output is initialized to a preset value. Next in Phase 2, the inputs are evaluated to switch the output magnet to its correct value. The time window for the output to switch in Phase 2 is fixed. Using such a scheme, an n-input AND gate which requires a total of (2n-1) inputs in the conventional implementation can now be implemented with only (n+1) inputs. When applied to standard logic functions, it is demonstrated that the proposed method of designing ASL gates are 1.6-3.4X faster and 1.9-6.9X more energy-efficient than the conventional method, and for a five-magnet full adder, it is shown that the proposed ASL implementation is 1.5X faster, 2.2X more energy-efficient, and provides a 16% improvement in area.
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