Resistorless Floating/Grounded Memristor Emulator Model With Electronic Tunability
Sagar, Rajeev Kr. Ranjan, Sung-Mo Kang
Abstract
The realization of memristor devices with specific operating parameters is a challenging task, which drives innovation in emulation circuits. This brief offers a simple and novel resistorless memristor emulator design with an electronic controllability feature. The proposed model is suitable for both floating and grounded memristor applications and can operate in incremental/decremental modes effectively without switches. The proposed model comprises a voltage differencing current conveyor (VDCC) and an operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) as active components and requires a single capacitor as its passive element. This model emulates the memristor’s pinched hysteresis loop in current-voltage (I-V) plane. Simulation is carried out for a <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">180 nm</i> CMOS technology with a supply voltage of ± <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0.9 V</i> . The proposed design exhibits non-linear behavior for a wide range of input voltage and operates well up to <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">8 MHz</i> . The reliability and robustness of the proposed design have been verified for short-term non-volatility, temperature variation, Monte-Carlo and process corner analysis. The experimental verifications are carried out on a breadboard using ICs AD844 and CA3080.