A review of magnetic cellular automata systems

In this work, we provide a literature review of magnetic cellular automata (MCA) systems. Magnetic Cellular Automata offers promise of low power and room temperature operations. Experimental proof-of-concepts of various logical components are already demonstrated and tested. In architecture, various forms of field induced clocking have been proposed. We direct the authors to most of the achievements and lead them to an few open problems.

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