Engineering, and his team are bringing the world closer to realizing this goal.
The research team has developed a novel device called a "memtransistor," which operates much like a neuron by performing both memory and information processing. With combined characteristics of a memristor and transistor, the memtransistor also encompasses multiple terminals that operate more similarly to a neural network.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180221152350.htm
Low-power, flexible memristor circuit for mobile and wearable devices
February 21, 2018, The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Professor Sung-Yool Choi from the School of Electrical Engineering and Professor Sang-Hee Ko Park from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering developed a memristive nonvolatile logic-in-memory circuit.
The team employed nonvolatile, polymer-based memristors and flexible back-to-back Schottky diode selector devices on plastic substrates. Unlike the conventional architecture, this memristive nonvolatile logic-in-memory is a novel computing architecture that consumes a minimal amount of standby power. This one-selector-one memristor (1S-1M) solved the issue of undesirable leakage currents, known as 'sneak currents'.
They also implemented single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) to calculate multiple values at once.
Professor Choi said, "Flexible logic-in-memory circuits integrating memristor and selector device can provide flexibility, low power, memory with logic functions. This will be a core technology that will bring innovation to mobile and wearable electronic systems."
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-low-power-flexible-memristor-circuit-mobile.html
A new way for designing electronics
A team from the University of Southampton has invented a new way for designing electronic systems that incorporates the best from both analogue and digital paradigms.
The study, titled ‘Seamlessly fused digital-analogue reconfigurable computing using memristors’, was published in Nature Communications. It revealed how the fusion of analogue and digital thinking can be achieved by combining standard digital electronics - as found in every computer and mobile phone today - with the rapidly emerging technology of analogue memristor devices.
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2018/06/memristor-devices.page
Nanowire Memristor: a nanometric device to reproduce the synapses of the brain
Dec 10, 2018 - Emulating and understanding the human brain is one of the most important challenges for modern technology: on the one hand, the ability to artificially reproduce the processing of brain signals is one of the cornerstones for the development of artificial intelligence, while on the other the understanding of the cognitive processes at the base of the human mind is still far away.
And the research published in Nature Communications ("Self-limited single nanowire systems combining all-in-one memristive and neuromorphic functionalities") by Gianluca Milano and Carlo Ricciardi, PhD student and professor, respectively, of the Applied Science and Technology Department of the Politecnico di Torino, represents a step forward in these directions.
In fact, the study shows how it is possible to artificially emulate the activity of synapses, i.e. the connections between neurons that regulate the learning processes in our brain, in a single "nanowire" with a diameter thousands of times smaller than that of a hair.
For this reason, the nanowire allows an extreme miniaturisation of the "memristor", significantly reducing the complexity and energy consumption of the electronic circuits necessary for the implementation of learning algorithms.
https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news2/newsid=51670.php
3D Cross Point MRAM Technology
Based on Avalanche Technology’s MRAM element and the newly developed selector, 1S1R (one selector-one resistor) MRAM cells have been fabricated and characterized. Switching operations between “AP” and “P” resistance state have been demonstrated for 1S1R MRAM cells.
Avalanche’s 3D Cross Point MRAM technology with the performance of DRAM and Non Volatility of Flash memories enables a class of memory where memory arrays are scalable to below 10nm and be stacked to achieve densities from Giga Bytes to Tera Bytes.
http://www.avalanche-technology.com/technology/3d-cross-point-mram-technology/
3D XPoint - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
3D XPoint was announced in July 2015 and is available on the open market under brand names Optane (Intel) and subsequently QuantX (Micron) since April 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint
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