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DESIGN OF MEMRISTOR BASED MULTIPLIER
Neha Jagan, Raksha S, Namitha S U, Shafiya Kouser
1
, Ms.B.S sharmila
2
1
Final year B.E under graduates, The National Institute of Engineering, Karnataka, India
2
Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, The National Institute of Engineering,Karnataka, India
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Abstract - Memristor is a novel technology, the fourth
fundamental passive element to overcome the limitations
faced by the CMOS technology. Memristor has the capacity of
memory but cannot store energy[9]. Multiplier is one of the
basic circuits in the field of digital signal processing and are
used in various applications such as FFT. In this paper, a 4 bit
multiplier is realised and implemented using the memristor-
cmos hybrid technology and the results are analysed in the
LTspice tool.
Key Words: Memristor, window function, state variable,
array multiplier, xnor, full adder.
1. INTRODUCTION
In 1971,Professor Leon Chua discovered the existence of the
fourth fundamental passive element known as the
memristor. But its research had not progressed untill 2008
because of the absence of physical prototype of the
memristor. With the invention of physical modelling of
memristor device in 2008 by the HP Labs, there has been a
drastic increase in the research to realise various existing
circuits in memristors. Multiplication is one of the key
operation in digital signal processing algorithms like digital
filtering, linear transformation, correlation and wavelet
compression.Various effiicient array and parallel multipliers
have been proposed and many of them boost the speed of
multiplication at the cost of large VLSI area and high power
dissipation[1]. In recent years, several power reduction
techniques have been proposed for low power digital design,
including the reduction ofsupply voltage, multi-threshold
logic and the clock speed, the use of signed magnitude
arithmetic and differential data encoding,the parallisation of
operations and the timing if input bit patterns to reduce
switching[2]. A basic multiplier can be divide into 3 parts
1).partial product generation 2).partial product addition and
3).final addition. It has been recognised that full adder
circuits have significant impact on the overall power and
area consumption and the speed of multipliers built on these
adders. Many new full adder circuits have been proposed
and here,xnor based full adder is implemented in array
multiplier which can be extended to other multipliers and
studied.
In this paper, we implemnt an area efficient array multiplier
that uses memristor-cmos hybrid technology. The rest of the
paper is organised as follows.section II consists of brief
description of memristor working. Section III explains the
concept of window functions for memristor and the various
window functions experimented in this project and its
outcome. Section IV implements the 2 bit and 4 bit array
multiplier structure with the memristor-cmos hybrid
technology.The results are analysed analysed in LTspice tool
in section V. section VI presents the conclusion of the work.
2. MEMRISTOR WORKING
In 2008, the HP laboratory team developed the memristor
element with typical resistive features successfully. The
range of memristor value reflects the memory effect and is
equal to the time integration of the currents that cross
through the memristor before the time instant[6].
Memristor reflects the relationship between the charge and
the magnetic flux, and accordingly to these fundamental
circuit variables, a memristor can be divided into two types,
the charge controlled memristor and the flux controlled
memristor[6].
The titanium-dioxide memristor nano-structure is described
by Strukov and William as in figure 1.The left region if the
TiO2 memristor structure with a length l is partially doped
with process with oxygen vacancies using an initial
electroforming process with a high constant voltage and has
low resistance[8]. The second sub-layer of the memristor is
prepared of pure TiO2 and it has very high resistance. The
length of the whole memristor nano-structure is denoted
with D [8].
Fig-1: memristor nano structure
The equivalent resistance of the memristor element could
be expressed as assumption of series connection of doped
and undoped regions[8] as given in figure 2.
R=Rdoped + Rundoped