Table 1 Estimation and comparison between CMOS, benchmarked SWD and our proposed SWD. The data for CMOS and SWD is based on the benchmarking proposed in [2,3].
From: Non-volatile Clocked Spin Wave Interconnect for Beyond-CMOS Nanomagnet Pipelines
 |  | SWD (this work) | |||
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Inverter with fanout 1 | area | 0.036 μ2 | 0.036 μ2 | 0.0162 μ2 | 0.0128 μ2 |
 | energy | 31.2 aJ | 5.27 aJ | 4.51 aJ | 26 aJ |
 | delay | 0.78 ps | 97.6 ps | 0.45 ns | 2 ns |
State element | area | 0.648 μ2 | 0.648 μ2 | 0.0162 μ2 | 0.0128 μ2 |
 | energy | 0.45 fJ | 76.8 aJ | 4.51 aJ | 26 aJ |
 | delay | 9.73 ps | 1.2 ns | 0.45 ns | 2 ns |
first stage optional input* | energy | — | — | — | 7 fJ |