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¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.

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Ferroelectric reconfigurable transistors enable efficient logic-in-memory computing. These devices perform concurrent data storage and logic operations, offering significant improvements in area and energy efficiency for content-addressable memory and reconfigurable logic gates.

Keywords:

2D material content-addressable memory ferroelectric configurable transistor in-memory computing reconfigurable logic gate

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering

Background:

The von Neumann architecture faces limitations in power consumption and computing capacity.
In-memory computing offers a promising solution by integrating logic and memory functions.
Ferroelectric materials provide unique properties for novel electronic devices.

Purpose of the Study:

To demonstrate the ferroelectric reconfigurable transistor as a versatile logic-in-memory unit.
To explore its application in content-addressable memory (CAM) and reconfigurable logic gates.
To evaluate the potential for improved area and energy efficiency.

Main Methods:

Utilizing ferroelectric reconfigurable transistors for concurrent logic operations and data storage.
Implementing content-addressable memory (CAM) with 1-transistor-per-bit density.
Demonstrating NAND/NOR logic gates with switchable n- and p-type modes.
Fabricating NAND- and NOR-arrays of CAM cells for multi-bit matching and Hamming distance measurement.

Main Results:

Ferroelectric reconfigurable transistors achieve XOR/XNOR-like matching in a single transistor for CAM, enhancing efficiency.
NAND- and NOR-arrays enable multibit matching and Hamming distance calculation.
Reconfigurable logic gates with dual NAND/NOR functions are demonstrated, with real-time, nonvolatile configuration changes.

Conclusions:

Ferroelectric reconfigurable transistors are effective logic-in-memory units.
They offer significant advantages in area and energy efficiency for memory and logic applications.
This technology paves the way for advanced, low-power computing architectures.