Title :
Memristor Crossbar Based Programmable Interconnects
Author :
Hasan, Ragib ; Taha, Tarek M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Dayton, Dayton, OH, USA
Abstract :
The memristor is a novel non-volatile device having a large variable resistance range. Physical memristors can be laid out in a high density grid known as a crossbar. In this paper we propose a memristor crossbar based static routing switch design. We logically connect two wires within a crossbar by setting their corresponding cross-point memristor to a low resistance state. Conversely we logically disconnect the wires by setting the corresponding memristor to a high resistance state. Our evaluations show that the proposed static switch consumes extremely low power and has a high density compared to existing designs.
Keywords :
field programmable gate arrays; integrated circuit interconnections; integrated memory circuits; low-power electronics; memristors; random-access storage; field programmable gate array; low power switch; memristor crossbar based programmable interconnects; nonvolatile device; resistance state; static routing switch design; Field programmable gate arrays; Memristors; Resistance; Routing; Switches; Switching circuits; Transistors; FPGA; On-chip routing; memristor; routing switch; static routing;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI (ISVLSI), 2014 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tampa, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3763-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISVLSI.2014.100
