Landauer Clocking for Magnetic Cellular Automata (IEEE TVLSI 2010)

A. Kumari and S. Bhanja, "Landauer Clocking for Magnetic Cellular Automata (MCA) Arrays", Accepted for publication IEEE Transactions on VLSI, 2010.

Abstract:

Magnetic Cellular Automata (MCA) is a variant of Quantum-dot-cellular automata (QCA) where neighboring single-domain nanomagnets (also termed as magnetic cell) process and propagate information (logic 1 or logic 0) through mutual interaction. The attractive nature of this framework is that not only room temperature operations are feasible but also interaction between neighbors is central to information processing as opposed to creating interference. In this work, we explore spatially moving Landauer clocking scheme for MCA arrays (length of eight, sixteen and thirty-two cells) and show the role and effectiveness of the clock in propagating logic signal from input to output without magnetic frustration. Simulation performed in OOMMF suggests that the clocking field is sensitive to scaling, shape and aspect ratio.