A sudden power-outage resilient nonvolatile microprocessor for immediate system recovery

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, NANOARCH 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 39-44

  Onizawa, Naoya ^a   Mochizuki, Akira ^a   Tamakoshi, Akira ^a   Hanyu, Takahiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENERGY HARVESTING; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONVOLATILE STORAGE; RECOVERY; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

AREA REDUCTION; CONTINUOUS OPERATION; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; NON-VOLATILE FLIP-FLOPS; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; RENEWABLE POWER; SYSTEM RECOVERY; TRIPLE MODULAR REDUNDANCY;

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EID: 84949549486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NANOARCH.2015.7180584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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