Shruti Patil
University of Minnesota
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Applied Physics Letters | 2010
Andrew Lyle; Jonathan Harms; Shruti Patil; Xiaofeng Yao; David J. Lilja; Jian Ping Wang
We experimentally demonstrated a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) based circuit that allows direct communication between elements without intermediate sensing amplifiers. The input of the circuit consists of three MTJs connected in parallel. The direct communication is realized by connecting the output in series with the input and applying voltage across the series connections. Combining the circuit with complementary metal oxide semiconductor current mirrors allows for fan-out to multiple outputs. The change in resistance at the input resulted in a voltage swing across the output of 150–200 mV for the closest input states which is sufficient to realize all of the Boolean primitives.
international conference on computer design | 2010
Shruti Patil; Andrew Lyle; Jonathan Harms; David J. Lilja; Jian Ping Wang
The emerging field of spintronics is undergoing exciting developments with the advances recently seen in spintronic devices, such as magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). While they make excellent memory devices, recently they have also been used to accomplish logic functions. The properties of MTJs are greatly different from those of electronic devices like CMOS semiconductors. This makes it challenging to design circuits that can efficiently leverage the spintronic capabilities. The current approaches to achieving logic functionality with MTJs include designing an integrated CMOS and MTJ circuit, where CMOS devices are used for implementing the required intermediate read and write circuitry. The problem with this approach is that such intermediate circuitry adds overheads of area, delay and power consumption to the logic circuit. In this paper, we present a circuit to accomplish logic operations using MTJs on data that is stored in other MTJs, without an intermediate electronic circuitry. This thus reduces the performance overheads of the spintronic circuit while also simplifying fabrication. With this circuit, we discuss the notion of performing logic operations with a non-volatile memory device and compare it with the traditional method of computation with separate logic and memory units. We find that the MTJ-based logic unit has the potential to offer a higher energy-delay efficiency than that of a CMOS-based logic operation on data stored in a separate memory module.
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics | 2011
Andrew Lyle; Shruti Patil; Jonathan Harms; Brian Glass; Xiaofeng Yao; David J. Lilja; Jian Ping Wang
We investigated magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ)-based circuit that allows direct communication between elements without intermediate sensing amplifiers. Two- and three-input circuits that consist of two and three MTJs connected in parallel, respectively, were fabricated and are compared. The direct communication is realized by connecting the output in series with the input and applying voltage across the series connections. The logic circuit relies on the fact that a change in resistance at the input modulates the voltage that is needed to supply the critical current for spin-transfer torque switching the output. The change in the resistance at the input resulted in a voltage swing of 50-200 mV and 250-300 mV for the closest input states for the three and two input designs, respectively. The two input logic gate realizes the AND, NAND, NOR, and OR logic functions. The three-input logic function realizes the majority, AND, NAND, NOR, and OR logic operations.
Applied Physics Letters | 2011
Min Woo Jang; Chia Ling Chen; Walter E. Partlo; Shruti Patil; Dongjin Lee; Zhijang Ye; David J. Lilja; T. Andrew Taton; Tianhong Cui; Stephen A. Campbell
The electrical and physical properties of pure single-walled carbon nanotube thin films deposited through a layer-by-layer-self-assembly process are discussed. The film thickness was proportional to the number of dipping cycles. The film resistivity was estimated as 2.19×10−3 Ω cm after thermal treatment processes were performed. The estimated specific contact resistance to gold electrodes was 6.33×10−9 Ω m2 from contact chain measurements. The fabricated three-terminal microelectromechanical switch using these films functioned as a beam for multiple switching cycles with a 4.5 V pull-in voltage. This switch is believed to be a promising device for low power digital logic applications.
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters | 2010
Shruti Patil; David J. Lilja
Rate-based metrics such as floating point operations per second, instructions per cycle and so forth are commonly used to measure computer performance. In addition to the average or mean performance of the metric, indicating the precision of the mean using confidence intervals helps to make informed decisions and comparisons with the data. In this paper, we discuss the determination of confidence intervals for the harmonic mean of rate-based metrics using two statistical resampling techniques - Jackknife and Bootstrap. We show using Monte Carlo simulations that resampling indeed works as expected, and can be used for generating confidence intervals for harmonic mean.
great lakes symposium on vlsi | 2011
Shruti Patil; David J. Lilja
Exciting developments are taking place in the field of spintronics, particularly with the advances in the fabrication and characterization of devices such as Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJ). The distinction of spintronic devices from conventional electronic devices makes it challenging to design efficient, scalable and low power logic circuits with MTJs. We propose a programmable and scalable technique to design MTJ-based logic circuits that are capable of implementing any 2-input logic truth table. We present the energy-delay trade-offs of this design with respect to circuit parameters. We also demonstrate that this circuit can be scaled to a 6-input logic function without incurring an increase in the energy consumption.
international conference on solid-state sensors, actuators and microsystems | 2011
Min Woo Jang; Chia Ling Chen; Walter E. Partlo; Shruti Patil; Dongjin Lee; Zhijiang Ye; David J. Lilja; T. Andrew Taton; Tianhong Cui; Stephen A. Campbell
An all single-walled carbon nanotube film was deposited through layer-by-layer self-assembly without use of a copolymer, resulting in 75% reduction of resistivity compared to previous composite films made with copolymer. The deposited film thickness could be well controlled by changing the number of dipping cycles. Moreover, a 3-terminal electromechanical switch built with this thin film behaved like a NAND gate. The on/off ratio of the device and the electrical properties of the film were dramatically improved through thermal treatments.
computing frontiers | 2008
Shruti Patil; Xiaofeng Yao; Hao Meng; Jian Ping Wang; David J. Lilja
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics | 2012
Shruti Patil; David J. Lilja
computing frontiers | 2011
Shruti Patil; David J. Lilja