Power dissipation in switching devices is believed to be the single most important roadblock to the continued downscaling of electronic circuits. There is a lot of experimental effort at this time to implement switching circuits based on magnets and it is important to establish power requirements for such circuits and their dependence on various parameters. This paper analyzes switching energy that is dissipated in the switching process of single-domain ferromagnets used as cascadable logic bits. We obtain generic results that can be used for comparison with alternative technologies or guide the design of magnet-based switching circuits. Two central results are established. One is that the switching energy drops significantly if the ramp time of an external pulse exceeds a critical time. This drop occurs more rapidly than what is normally expected of adiabatic switching for a capacitor. The other result is that under the switching scheme that allows for logic operations, the switching energy can be described by a single equation in both fast and slow limits. Furthermore, these generic results are used to discuss the practical consideration such as dissipation versus speed, increasing the switching speed and scaling. It is further explained that nanomagnets can have scaling laws similar to CMOS technology. ">

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