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A number of novel new devices and circuits are disclosed utilizing configurable magneto-electronic elements such as magnetic spin transistors and hybrid hall effect devices. Such magneto-electronic elements can be used as building blocks of an entirely new family of electronic devices for performing

A number of novel new devices and circuits are disclosed utilizing configurable magneto-electronic elements such as magnetic spin transistors and hybrid hall effect devices. Such magneto-electronic elements can be used as building blocks of an entirely new family of electronic devices for performing functions not easily implementable with semiconductor based device. A number of examples are provided, including logic gates that can be programmed to perform different boolean logic operations at different periods of time. Logic devices and circuits incorporating such logic gates have a number of operational advantages and benefits over conventional semiconductor based technologies, including the fact that traditional signal logic operations can be implemented with substantially fewer active elements. A conventional boolean function unit, for example, can be constructed with 2 magneto-electronic elements, and 2 semiconductor elements, which is a 400% improvement over prior art pure semiconductor based technologies.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.] An electronic device for performing a logic operation based on a first input signal and a second input signal, said device comprising:an input for receiving said first and second input signals; andan electronically configurable element, which element has a logic state tha

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] An electronic device for performing a logic operation based on a first input signal and a second input signal, said device comprising:an input for receiving said first and second input signals; andan electronically configurable element, which element has a logic state that can be adjusted in response to logic values of said first and second signals;wherein said device can be controlled to perform at least a first and second logic operation on said signals, the first logic operation being different from the second logic operation; andfurther wherein said logic operation can be controlled by setting the logic state of the device to an initialization state, such that said device performs a first boolean operation when the logic state is set to a first initialization state, and said device performs a second boolean operation when the logic state is set to a second initialization state.