Abstract
A memristor is an electrical element, which has been conjectured in 1971 to complete the lumped circuit theory. Currently, researchers use memristor emulators through diodes, inductors, and other passive (or active) elements to study circuits with possible attractors, chaos, and ways of implementing nonlinear transformations for low-voltage novel computing paradigms. However, to date, such passive memristor emulators have been voltage-controlled. In this study, a novel circuit realization of a passive current-controlled passive inductorless emulator is established. It overcomes the lack of passive current-controlled memristor commercial devices, and it can be used as part of more sophisticated circuits. Moreover, it covers a gap in the state of the art because, currently, only passive circuit voltage-controlled memristor emulators and active current-controlled emulators have been developed and used. The emulator only uses two diodes, two resistors, and one capacitance and is passive. The formal theory and simulations validate the proposed circuit, and experimental measurements were performed. The parameter conditions of numerical simulations and experiments are consistent. Simulations were performed with an input current amplitude of 15 mA and frequencies of up to 3 kHz and measurements were carried out with an input current amplitude of 0.74 mA and frequency of 1.5 kHz in order to compare with the state of the art.
Highlights
A memristor is an electrical two-terminal passive nonlinear resistance element that exhibits a well-known pinched hysteresis loop at the origin of the voltage-current plane when any bipolar periodic zero-mean excitatory voltage or current of any value is applied across it
There are disagreements regarding whether a memristor can be considered a fundamental element and whether its dynamic is purely electromagnetic, as originally conjectured, or if there are other mechanisms involved such as ionic transport
Irrespective of whether the memristor is implemented by emulating its behavior through circuitry composed of other active or passive components, new studies continue to generate and sustain optimistic expectations in the scientific community about the use and advantages of the memristor. e research interest in the memristor is motivated by its promising potential for building novel integrated circuits and computing systems, as has been proposed in [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
Summary
Researchers use memristor emulators through diodes, inductors, and other passive (or active) elements to study circuits with possible attractors, chaos, and ways of implementing nonlinear transformations for low-voltage novel computing paradigms. To date, such passive memristor emulators have been voltage-controlled. A novel circuit realization of a passive current-controlled passive inductorless emulator is established It overcomes the lack of passive current-controlled memristor commercial devices, and it can be used as part of more sophisticated circuits.
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