Memristor-based Hardware DesignsBecause Moore's Law, i.e. that the number of transistors on
a chip is doubling roughly every two years, is slowly
dying, it is worthwhile to look into new technologies that
complement or replace traditional CMOS-based chip designs,
in order to keep progressing. Promising candidates are
memristive technologies. To put their operation principle
simple: They are based on materials with electrically
controllable resistance.
This principle can be exploited in multiple ways:
They can be used to store data. One remarkable property
of memristive technologies is, that they will keep their
state without an attached voltage and therefore lend
themselves as basis of non-volatile memory (NVM).
They can also be used as computational devices. A lot of
research has been done on memristors facilitating
neuromorphic computation, because they seem to be able to
mimic synapses reasonably well. Also they can be used to
build up logic gates. Because of these properties we are
exploring the possibilities offered by memristors on the
circuit, chip and system level to generate fast and
energy efficient processors.
| Project manager:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietmar Fey
Project participants:
Dr.-Ing. Marc Reichenbach, Akad. Rat, Mehrdad Biglari, M. Sc., Johannes Knödtel, M. Sc., Tobias Lieske, M. Sc.
Keywords:
Memristor; Ternery Arithmetic; Processor Design; Low Power
Start: 1.4.2016
Contact:
Knödtel, Johannes
Phone +49 9131 85 27004, Fax +49 9131 85 27912, E-Mail: johannes.knoedtel@fau.de
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| Wust, Daniel ; Söll, Christopher ; Fey, Dietmar: A fast general purpose CPU utilizing signed-digit encoding and multi-bit memristors.Talk: mDAC: 4th Workshop on Memristor Technology, Design, Automation and Computing - HiPEAC17, Stockholm, Sweden, 23.1.2017 | | Biglari, Mehrdad ; Fey, Dietmar: A Non-Volatile Flip-Flop Using Memristive Voltage Divider.Talk: Emerging Memory Solutions - Technology, Manufacturing, Architectures, Design and Test, Lausanne, 31.03.2017 | | Fey, Dietmar: Evaluating Ternary Adders using a hybrid Memristor / CMOS approach. In: Workshop In-Memory and In-Storage Computing with Emerging Technologies at PACT'2016; CoRR (2017), No. abs/1701.00065, pp 7 | | Fey, Dietmar: Joint Keynote: Perspectives of Memristor and NVM technologies for HPC and embedded computing.Talk: HiPEAC-Workshops mDAC: 4th Workshop on Memristor Technology, Design, Automation and Computing and DTHPC: Workshop on Disruptive Technologies in High-Performance Computing in the Next Decade, Stockholm, 22.1.2017 | | Fey, Dietmar: Memristive Technology for Computing: Opportunities and Challenges.Talk: Speaker at Panel discussion on HiPEAC Workshop mDAC: 4th Workshop on Memristor Technology, Design, Automation and Computing, 23.1.2017 | | Fey, Dietmar: Evaluating Signed-digit Arithmetic Circuits using Multi-level storing Memristors.Talk: HiPEAC Conference' 16 Workshop MemTDAC: Memristor Technology, Design, Automation and Computing, Prague, Czech Republic, 26.01.2016 | | Fey, Dietmar: Evaluating Ternary Adders using a Hybrid Memristor/CMOS Approach.Talk: Workshop In-Memory and In-Storage Computing with Emerging Technologies at PACT'2016, Haifa, Israel, 11.9..2016 | | Fey, Dietmar: Short-, mid- and long- term perspectives of memristors for digital computing.Talk: Round Table Discussion of EU COST ACTION IC1401 Memristors: at the crossroad of Devices and Applications, Milano, 21.3.2016 | | Fey, Dietmar ; Reichenbach, Marc ; Söll, Christopher ; Biglari, Mehrdad ; Röber, Jürgen ; Weigel, Robert: Using Memristor Technology for Multi-value Registers in Signed-digit Arithmetic Circuits.Talk: Second International Symposium on Memory Systems - MEMSYS 2016, Alexandria, VA, USA, 6.10.2016 | | Fey, Dietmar: Architecture and Simulation of a Hybrid Memristive Multiplier Network using Redundant Number Representation.Talk: Int. Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2015), Killarney, Ireland, 13.07.2015 | | Fey, Dietmar: Digital Read/Write Controller Interface to Multi-bit Memristors used as Registers in Ternary Arithmetic Units.Talk: HiPEAC Conference ’15 Workshop MemTDAC: Memristor Technology, Design, Automation and Computing, Amsterdam, NL, 21.01.2015 | | Fey, Dietmar: Keynote More than the Machine – Using Memristors for Computing.Talk: Future Computing 2015, Nice, France, 23.03.2015 | | Fey, Dietmar: Ternary Arithmetic Pipeline Architectures using multi-bit Memristors.Talk: Future Computing 2015, Nice, France, 23.03.2015 | | Fey, Dietmar: A concept for a ternary signed-digit arithmetic unit with memristor based pipeline registers.Talk: HiPEAC Computing Systems Week'14, Athens, Greece Workshop Memristive Computing Architectures: Emergent and Future Challenges, Athen, Griechenland, 08.10.2014 | | Fey, Dietmar: Using the Multi-bit Feature of Memristors for Register Files in Signed-Digit Arithmetic Units.Talk: HIPEAC 2014, Wien, 22.01.2014 |
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