Published In
BioNanoScience
Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
10-2016
Subjects
Memristive Crosspoint array, Logic computation, Memristive crossbar array, Rectifying memristor, Stateful inhibition, Volistor logic
Abstract
We introduce a novel volistor logic gate which uses voltage as input and resistance as output. Volistors rely on the diode-like behavior of rectifying memristors. We show how to realize the first logic level, counted from the input, of any Boolean function with volistor gates in a memristive crossbar network. Unlike stateful logic, there is no need to store the inputs as resistances, and computation is performed directly. The fan-in and fan-out of volistor gates are large and different from traditional memristor circuits. Compared to solely memristive stateful logic, a combination of volistors and stateful inhibition gates can significantly reduce the number of operations required to calculate arbitrary multi-output Boolean functions. The power consumption of volistor logic is computed and compared with the power consumption of stateful logic using the simulation results obtained by LTspice—when implemented in a 1 × 8 or an 8 × 1 crosspoint array, volistors consume significantly less power.
DOI
10.1007/s12668-016-0213-1
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/19367
Citation Details
Published as, Aljafar, M., Long, P., & Perkowski, M. (2016). Memristor-Based Volistor Gates Compute Logic with Low Power Consumption. BioNanoScience, 6(3), 214-234.
Description
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/[10.1007/s12668-016-0213-1.