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Ultra low power NEMFET based logic

Enachescu, Marius
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Lefter, Mihai
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Bazigos, Antonios  
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2013
2013 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2013)
2013 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

In this paper, we introduce a Nano-Electro-Mechanical Field Effect Transistor (NEMFET) based logic family tailored to the implementation of low speed and ultra low energy functional units and processors. Basic Boolean gates implemented with NEMFETs only are analysed and compared against equivalent CMOS realisations. Our simulations suggest that the proposed short-circuit current free NEMFET gates exhibit up to 10x dynamic energy reduction and up to 2 orders of magnitude less leakage, at the expense of 10 to 20x slower operation, when compared with CMOS counterparts. We also analyse the fan-in influence on gate performance and observe that NEMFET the gate energy advantage increases with fan-in. Finally, we consider a 3D-Stacked hybrid NEMFET-CMOS computation platform running a heartbeat rate monitor application and demonstrate that NEMFET based logic is an enabling factor for the implementation of “zero-energy” operated systems.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ISCAS.2013.6571905
Author(s)
Enachescu, Marius
Lefter, Mihai
Bazigos, Antonios  
Ionescu, Adrian M.  
Dan Cotofana, Sorin
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

IEEE

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2013 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2013)
Start page

566

End page

569

Subjects

CMOS logic circuits

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field effect transistors

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logic gates

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low-power electronics

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nanoelectromechanical devices

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http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6571905
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2013 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

Beijing, China

19-23 05 2013

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January 16, 2014
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