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Chiral skyrmion flows enable new approach to nanoscale logic devices

In magnetic materials with antisymmetric exchange interactions, novel particle-like spin textures called magnetic skyrmions can appear and be manipulated by electrons. First observed in 2009, they ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Tapping Into Non-Volatile Logic

Research is underway to develop a new type of logic device, called non-volatile logic (NVL), based on ferroelectric FETs. FeFETs have been a topic of high interest at recent industry conferences, but ...
Electronic Design

Logic-Gate Device Integrates Up/Down Translation

Logic devices developed by Texas Instruments fully integrate logic-gate and up/down translation functionality from a single power supply, reducing board space by more than 50% versus discrete ...
Nanowerk

New study suggests chiral skyrmion flows can be used for logic nanodevices

Researchers find that magnetic skyrmions can behave like chiral fluids, which may be harnessed for fluidic logic in nanofabricated devices. (Nanowerk News) In magnetic materials with antisymmetric ...
EDN

Logic devices expand system resources in mobile platforms

Geneva—STMicroelectronics has introduced the Xpander Logic family to help customers overcome the limited number of I/O ports in microcontroller and microprocessor-based embedded systems. Any existing ...
Electronic Design

Automotive ICs Go “Back to the Future” with Minimalist Logic Devices

The history and continued need of small-scale integration ICs for digital-logic functions. How a serial-input/parallel-output shift register can expand I/O pins while ...
EDN

Power to Programmable Logic Devices is becoming more of an issue

This post sponsored by Texas Instruments. Programmable logic has been around since the days when new 8-bit microcontrollers were flourishing. And while 8-bit microcontrollers are still flourishing, ...