Energy-Efficient Memristive Analog and Digital Electronics

This chapter reviews recent technology trends in memristive analog and digital electronics, with particular attention to programmable analog and digital circuits, ultra-dense nonvolatile resistive memory architectures, and zero leakage nonvolatile logic gates. A reconfigurable nonvolatile computing platform that harnesses memristor properties is used to deploy massive local nonvolatile memories and advance computing capabilities with much lowered energy consumption than the conventional charge-based VLSI systems. With application of memristive devices for nonvolatile memories, programmable interconnects, stateful logic gates, and nonvolatile latches with high integration density and CMOS compatibility, combining memristor technology with the prevailing CMOS technology poses to prolong the Moore’s Law beyond the hitherto observed technological limitations.