Seamlessly fused digital-analogue reconfigurable computing using memristors

Alexantrou Serb (), Ali Khiat and Themistoklis Prodromakis
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Alexantrou Serb: Electronic Materials & Devices, Zepler Institute, University of Southampton, Highfield campus
Ali Khiat: Electronic Materials & Devices, Zepler Institute, University of Southampton, Highfield campus
Themistoklis Prodromakis: Electronic Materials & Devices, Zepler Institute, University of Southampton, Highfield campus

Nature Communications, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract As the world enters the age of ubiquitous computing, the need for reconfigurable hardware operating close to the fundamental limits of energy consumption becomes increasingly pressing. Simultaneously, scaling-driven performance improvements within the framework of traditional analogue and digital design become progressively more restricted by fundamental physical constraints. Emerging nanoelectronics technologies bring forth new prospects yet a significant rethink of electronics design is required for realising their full potential. Here we lay the foundations of a design approach that fuses analogue and digital thinking by combining digital electronics with analogue memristive devices for achieving charge-based computation; information processing where every dissipated charge counts. This is realised by introducing memristive devices into standard logic gates, thus rendering them reconfigurable and capable of performing analogue computation at a power cost close to digital. The versatility and benefits of our approach are experimentally showcased through a hardware data clusterer and an analogue NAND gate.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04624-8

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