Jiabao Ye;Bing Chen;Nuo Xu;Jiantao Zhou;Rongjun Mu;Chao Du;Wei D. Lu
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Abstract
An analog memristor-crossbar-array-based non-linear partial differential equation (PDE) solver is developed and verified through circuit-level simulations using realistic memristor device data. Several methodologies are suggested for the matrix-vector multiplication (MVM) and weight update (WU) operations, which are the essenses of the highly parallelised PDE solver. An example of solving the Burgers’ equation is demonstrated. Results suggest that, in comparison with traditional computers, the proposed memristor PDE solver offers dramatic performance improvement and energy savings.
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The IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society (J-EDS) is an open-access, fully electronic scientific journal publishing papers ranging from fundamental to applied research that are scientifically rigorous and relevant to electron devices. The J-EDS publishes original and significant contributions relating to the theory, modelling, design, performance, and reliability of electron and ion integrated circuit devices and interconnects, involving insulators, metals, organic materials, micro-plasmas, semiconductors, quantum-effect structures, vacuum devices, and emerging materials with applications in bioelectronics, biomedical electronics, computation, communications, displays, microelectromechanics, imaging, micro-actuators, nanodevices, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, power IC''s, and micro-sensors. Tutorial and review papers on these subjects are, also, published. And, occasionally special issues with a collection of papers on particular areas in more depth and breadth are, also, published. J-EDS publishes all papers that are judged to be technically valid and original.