Title :
Compact Circuit Model and Hardware Emulation for Floating Memristor Devices
Author :
Sangho Shin ; Le Zheng ; Weickhardt, G. ; Seongik Cho ; Sung-Mo Kang
Author_Institution :
Jack Baskin Sch. of Eng., Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
fDate :
Secondquarter 2013
Abstract :
A compact circuit model and physical hardware emulation for floating memristors are presented. By utilizing memristor ´resistance´ as a state variable, and constructing a hardware emulator using a low-complexity modular structure, the model-based emulation can replicate diverse behaviors of different device types. Our hardware emulator for a voltage-actuated, threshold sensitive, two-terminal, floating memristor demonstrates experimentally memristor dynamics. The emulator is capable of computing any arithmetic operations without any disturbance associated with composition of modular structures.
Keywords :
memristors; semiconductor device models; arithmetic operations; compact circuit model; floating memristor devices; low-complexity modular structure; model-based emulation; physical hardware emulation; threshold sensitive memristor; two-terminal memristor; voltage-actuated memristor; Circuit layout; Computational modeling; Emulation; Hardware; Integrated circuit modeling; Memristors; Printed circuits; Resistance; Threshold voltage;
Journal_Title :
Circuits and Systems Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MCAS.2013.2256259