Metastable Memristive Lines for Signal Transmission and Information Processing Applications

TL;DR

This paper introduces metastable memristive lines that enable signal transmission and processing using only resistive components, expanding memristive device applications beyond storage to information transfer.

Contribution

It presents a novel metastable memristive circuit and line architecture capable of signal transfer and processing, a new application area for memristive devices.

Findings

Memristive lines can transfer signal edges between locations.

Networks of these lines can perform information processing.

The architecture employs only resistive components.

Abstract

Traditional studies of memristive devices have mainly focused on their applications in non-volatile information storage and information processing. Here, we demonstrate that the third fundamental component of information technologies { the transfer of information { can also be employed with memristive devices. For this purpose, we introduce a metastable memristive circuit. Combining metastable memristive circuits into a line, one obtains an architecture capable of transferring a signal edge from one space location to another. We emphasize that the suggested transmission lines employ only resistive components. Moreover, their networks (for example, Y-connected lines) have an information processing capability.