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Brains Are Made of Memristors.
Maheshwar Pd. Sah,Hyongsuk Kim,Leon O. Chua +2 more
- pp 315-350
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In this paper, it was shown that the potassium ion-channel and the sodium ion-channels that are distributed over the entire length of the axons of our neurons are locally active memristors.Abstract:
This exposition shows that the potassium ion-channels and the sodium ion-channels that are distributed over the entire length of the axons of our neurons are in fact locally-active memristors. In particular, they exhibit all of the fingerprints of memristors, including the characteristic pinched hysteresis Lissajous figures in the voltage-current plane, whose loop areas shrink as the frequency of the periodic excitation signal increases. Moreover, the pinched hysteresis loops for the potassium ion-channel memristor, and the sodium ion-channel memristor, from the Hodgkin-Huxley axon circuit model are unique for each periodic excitation signal. An in-depth circuit-theoretic analysis and characterizations of these two classic biological memristors are presented via their small-signal memristive equivalent circuits, their frequency response, and their Nyquist plots. Just as the Hodgkin-Huxley circuit model has stood the test of time, its constituent potassium ion-channel and sodium ion-channel memristors are destined to be classic examples of locally-active memristors in future textbooks on circuit theory and bio-physics.read more
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Memristor-Based Analog Computation and Neural Network Classification with a Dot Product Engine.
Miao Hu,Catherine Graves,Can Li,Yunning Li,Ning Ge,Eric Montgomery,Noraica Davila,Hao Jiang,R. Stanley Williams,Jianhua Yang,Qiangfei Xia,John Paul Strachan +11 more
TL;DR: High‐precision analog tuning and control of memristor cells across a 128 × 64 array is demonstrated, and the resulting vector matrix multiplication (VMM) computing precision is evaluated.
If It's Pinched It's a Memristor.
TL;DR: This chapter gives a circuit-theoretic foundation for the first four elementary nonlinear 2-terminal circuit elements, namely, the resistor, the capacitor, the inductor, and the memristor.
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Emerging Memristor-Based Logic Circuit Design Approaches: A Review
TL;DR: This article is a comprehensive review of the state-of-theart of memristor-based logic circuit design concepts of the recent literature and the main operational properties of all the selected computational concepts are presented in an accessible manner.
Memristor, Hodgkin-Huxley, and Edge of Chaos.
Leon O. Chua,Leon O. Chua +1 more
TL;DR: The memristor can be defined as any 2-terminal device that exhibits the fingerprints of "pinched" hysteresis loops in the v-i plane as discussed by the authors.
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Membranes, ions, and impulses: Dedication to Kacy Cole
TL;DR: This collection of papers given at the Colloquium on Membranes, Ions, and Impulses is dedicated to Kacy Cole and Dan Tosteson, the American Physiological Society President for 1974.
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Nanoscale Memristor Device as Synapse in Neuromorphic Systems
TL;DR: A nanoscale silicon-based memristor device is experimentally demonstrated and it is shown that a hybrid system composed of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor neurons and Memristor synapses can support important synaptic functions such as spike timing dependent plasticity.
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Memristive devices and systems
Leon O. Chua,Sung-Mo Kang +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a broad generalization of memristors to an interesting class of nonlinear dynamical systems called memristive systems is introduced, which are unconventional in the sense that while they behave like resistive devices, they can be endowed with a rather exotic variety of dynamic characteristics.
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Memristor-Based Analog Computation and Neural Network Classification with a Dot Product Engine.
Miao Hu,Catherine Graves,Can Li,Yunning Li,Ning Ge,Eric Montgomery,Noraica Davila,Hao Jiang,R. Stanley Williams,Jianhua Yang,Qiangfei Xia,John Paul Strachan +11 more
TL;DR: High‐precision analog tuning and control of memristor cells across a 128 × 64 array is demonstrated, and the resulting vector matrix multiplication (VMM) computing precision is evaluated.
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Cnn: A Paradigm for Complexity
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Everything You Wish to Know About Memristors But Are Afraid to Ask
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors classify all memristors into three classes called Ideal, Generic, or Extended Memristors, and define new concepts such as Continuum-memory memristor, POP (acronym for Power-Off Plot), DC V-I Plot, and Quasi DC V -I Plot.