Electronics
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: 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 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, [...]
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 [...]
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 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. [...]