Memristors and Memristive Systems
Memristor Models for SPICE - here you can find code for memristor models for SPICE and MATLAB
Interesting References and Links
Memristor Conferences and Events
Any Electrical Engineering student is familiar with the fundamental passive
circuit elements: the resistor, the capacitor and the inductor.
However, in 1971 Leon Chua (a Professor from UC Berkley) reasoned from symmetry
arguments that there should be a fourth fundamental element, which he called a
memristor (short for memory resistor).
Although he showed that such an element has many interesting and valuable
circuit properties, until 2008 no one has presented either a useful physical
model or an example of a memristor.
In 2008 HP (Hewlett-Packard) announced that they succeeded to fabricate the
missing memristor. Since then the interest in this device and its applications
is rising and several more memristors were "found" (including STT-MRAM
and spintronics).
The memristor may allow extension to
Memory can be implemented in all levels (cache, main memory and storage) with
memristor-based memory and those applications can solve the current leakage
problem and be the next generation nonvolatile memory.
There are many other potential applications with memristors including Artificial
Intelligence, analog computing and brain-like circuits, detector of pollution in
mobile devices, a new approach for logic and much more.
The memristor and memristive systems research is developing in a fast pace. In the coming graph you can see how fast it is in terms of the number of related published papers each year (according to Google Scholar, updated in 28/05/2012).
If you are interested in memristors and their applications and you want to share ideas and information - contact me.
My Research about Memristor-based Circuits and Architectures
I am working on memristor-based applications in circuit level and in architecture level.
Right now I am working on several projects - memristor modeling, memristor-based logic design, and computer architecture in the memristor era.
We organized a workshop on memristors on 7th March, 2012 at the Technion. The program and the presentations can be found here. I talked about "Memristor-based Logic Circuit Design." (my talk). All the lectures are in YouTube.
My Publications about Memristors
S. Kvatinsky, E.G. Friedman, A.
Kolodny, and U.C. Weiser, "Memristor-based IMPLY Logic Design Procedure," Proceedings of the
IEEE 29th International Conference on Computer Design, pp.142-147, October
2011.
S. Kvatinsky, K. Talisveyberg, D. Fliter, E. G. Friedman,
A. Kolodny, and U. C. Weiser, "Verilog-A for Memristor Models," CCIT
Technical Report #801, December 2011.
S. Kvatinsky, K. Talisveyberg. D. Fliter, E. G. Friedman, A. Kolodny, and U. C. Weiser, "Models of Memristors for SPICE Simulations," Proceedings of the IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, pp. 1-5, November 2012. pdf
S. Kvatinsky, E. G. Friedman, A. Kolodny, and U. C. Weiser, "TEAM
- ThrEshold Adaptive Memristor Model," IEEE Transactions
on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 211-221, January 2013.
S. Kvatinsky, Y. H. Nacson, Y. Etsion, E. G. Friedman, A. Kolodny, and U. C. Weiser, "Memristor-based Multithreading," Computer Architecture Letters, 2013 (in press). pdf
Y. Cassuto, S. Kvatinsky, and E. Yaakobi, "Sneak-Path Constraints in Memristor Crossbar Arrays," to appear in Proceeding of the Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop, March 2013.
S. Kvatinsky, E. G. Friedman, A. Kolodny, and U. C. Weiser, "The Desired Memristor for Circuit Designers," IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, second quarter, pp. 17-22, May 2013.
Y. Cassuto, S. Kvatinsky, and E. Yaakobi, "Sneak-Path Constraints in Memristor Crossbar Arrays," accepted to the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, July 2013.
Talks on Memristors
S. Kvatinsky, E. G. Friedman, A. Kolodny and U.C. Weiser, "Memristors and Related Applications," The International Conference of the Israeli Semiconductor Industry (ChipEx 2011), May 2011.
S. Kvatinsky, "Memristor-based Logic Circuit Design," IEEE/ACRC Workshop on Memristors and Resistive Memory: Devices and Applications, March 2012. Presentation YouTube
S. Kvatinsky, E. G. Friedman, A. Kolodny and U.C. Weiser, "The Desired Memristor for Circuit Designers," Nature Conference on Frontiers in Electronic Materials, June 2012. Presentation
S. Kvatinsky, "Memristors - Not Just Memory," The Annual Conference of the Israeli Semiconductor Industry (ChipEx 2013), May 2013. Presentation Best Lecture Award.
Interesting References and Links about Memristors
Here are some interesting and basic links about memristors. Those links are good for a start.
Memristors on Wikipedia.
Memristor website: http://www.memristor.org/
Chua's original paper on memristors. pdf
HP's paper about "the missing memristor found". pdf
Overview on STT-MRAM. pdf
A paper about memristor-based memory. pdf
Interesting presentations from IEDM 2011. HP Wasser
ACRC workshop in the Technion, March 2012 schedule and presentations
In this link you can find many papers that I read and found interesting.
Conferences with memristors sessions
In this section, I publish conferences about memristors, conferences with sessions about memristors or conferences with interesting presentations about memristors.
You are welcome to send me details about coming relevant conferences, you are familiar with.
MemCo Workshop, "Memristors for Computing", 19-21 November 2012, Frejus, France.
2nd International Workshop on Resistive RAM, 8-9 October 2012, Stanford, CA, USA.
ICNAAM 2012, Kos, Greece, 19-25 September, 2012 - hold a symposium on "Memristor-based Neuromorphic Circuits and Unconventional Computing."
2012 Third Memristor and Memristive Systems Symposium and CNNA 2012, 28-31 August 2012, Turin, Italy - holds a special symposium and three special sessions.
Nature Conference, Frontiers in Electronic Materials: Correlation Effects and Memristive Phenomena, June 17-20, 2012, Eurogress Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
ISCAS 2012, Seoul, South Korea, 20-23 May, 2012 - holds a session on "Memristors and Memristive Systems."
ACRC Workshop on memristors and resistive memory, 7th March, 2012, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
ICCD 2011, Amherst, Massachusetts, 10-13 October, 2011 - holds a session about memristors.
Flash Memory Summit 2011, Santa Clara, California, 8-11 August, 2011 - holds a session about RRAM.
ICIC 2011, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China, August 11-14, 2011 - holds a special session on 'Modeling, Theory and Application of Memristor-based Systems'.
ICECS 2010, Athens, Greece, December 12-15, 2010 - holds a session on 'Memristive Devices and Applications'.
ISCAS 2010, Paris, France, May 30th - June 2nd, 2010 - holds two sessions - 'Memristors and Memristive Systems – From Devices to Applications', and 'Memristor Fabrication/Experimentation'.
2008 First Memristor and Memristive Systems Symposium, UC Berkeley, November 21st, 2008 - the link follows to the video of the conference.
