THINKING MACHINE

MEMRISTOR

Under the guidance of Presented by

Prof. S.S. Sharma Manik Vaish
EN Dept. EN F (III yr.)
 INTRODUCTION
• Memristor is a contraction of “memory
resistor,” because that is exactly its
function: to remember its history.

• A Memristor is a two-terminal device whose

resistance depends on the magnitude and
polarity of the voltage applied to it and the
length of time that voltage has been applied.
 WHAT IS IT?
 The world’s smallest  A passive two-terminal
memristive switch. circuit elements that
-(50 x 50 nanometers) maintains a functional
relationship between
 Information storage the time integrals of
device. current and voltage.

 A concentration of
memory resistors.
 HISTORY
Memristor theory was formulated and named
by Leon Chua in a 1971 paper.
LEON CHUA'S THEORY
Leon Chua suspected that
a memristor should exist
based primarily on
symmetry.
Resistor dv/di = R (ohms)

Capacitor dq/dv = C (farad)

Inductor dΦ/di = L (henry)

 ???????? dΦ/dq = ?
THE MISSING ELEMENT FOUND
Φ~q

MEMRISTOR
MEM – memory,
RISTOR - resistor
 HOW MEMRISTOR WORKS

THE CROSSBAR ARCHITECTURE THE SWITCH

A switch is a 40-nanometer
The crossbar architecture is a fully cube of titanium dioxide
connected mesh of perpendicular (TiO2) in two layers
wires.