ABSTRACT Reconfigurability in logic‐in‐memory (LIM) enables highly integrated circuits to be used in data‐intensive applications by performing several logic operations within a single circuit structure. In this study, the reconfigurable LIM (R‐LIM) cell consisted of eight triple‐gated feedback field‐effect transistors (TG FBFETs) that were shared equally in the pull‐up and pull‐down networks. Because of the reconfigurable characteristics of the TG FBFET, the R‐LIM cell performed AND, OR, NOT, and XOR operations without redesign of the circuit topology. Furthermore, the 2 × 2 R‐LIM cell array executed half‐adder, half‐subtractor, 1:2 demultiplexer, and 4:2 encoder operations using a combination of AND, OR, NOT, and XOR operations. The logic results remained without an external power supply because of the memory characteristics of the TG FBFET used as a component of the R‐LIM cell. The results of this study provide an effective method for designing highly integrated circuits for data‐intensive computing systems.
Kim et al. (Sat,) studied this question.