Electronics


Intel Labs proposes Spintronic and Memristor based Neuromorphic chip architecture

A new paper titled “Proposal For Neuromorphic Hardware Using Spin Devices” put out by the researchers at the Circuits Research Lab at Intel and Purdue University shows promise in simulations for modeling bipolar spin neurons utilizing memristive cross-bar neural network (NN) architectures as synapses: [...] Emergence of programmable conductive elements, like TiO2 memristor and phase [...]

Memristors in History

Memristors: They’ve been here all along! In the upcoming June issue of Nature, Leon Chua, Themistoklis Prodromakis, and Christofer Toumazou have written commentary on Memristors in history, titled: “Two Centuries of Memristors” [commentary abstract]. The commentary looks back at 200 years of materials and research to show evidence of memristive states as an observable phenomena [...]

Panasonic Japan prepares to release ReRam Nonvolatile Memory with Microprocessor Evaluation Kit

Panasonic Japan has a press release out detailing the availability of a microprocessor kit for evaluation that integrates a reram nonvolatile memory chip with a microcomputer. Are transputers back? Panasonic hopes to make the starter kits available for evaluation by May. They will “[...] make a direct connection to the USB port of your PC, [...]

Hafnium Oxide RRAM, and others, at the 2012 VLSI Symposia

Let the claims begin! Memory papers will be in abundance at this years IEEE Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits. IMEC (the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre out of Leuven, Belgium) has started it off with a summary of what will be presenting on hafnium oxide and other alternatives for formulation of ReRAM. One paper of interest [...]

IEEE Journal Special Issue: Memristors: Devices, Models and Applications

The June 2012, Vol. 100, Issue 6 of the Proceedings of the IEEE will have a special issue devoted to “Memristors: Devices, Models and Applications”. An overview of what will be available, and links to the early access, are below: The Fourth Element – Leon O. Chua   Port-Hamiltonian Formulation of Systems With Memory - D. [...]

Elpida enters reRam production fray: 30nm DRAM competitor by 2013

Elpida Memory Inc. has produced a ReRam [nonvolatile resistance memory, a DRAM/flash memory competitor] prototype on 50nm at a 64-Mbits capacity, with 10ns write cycles, and 1 million read-write endurance cycles. The substrate material is undisclosed: The prototype was jointly developed with the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a Japanese-funded public institution. [...]