Analog memristive memory with applications in audio signal processing

Since the development of the HP memristor,much attention has been paid to studies of memristive devices and applications,particularly memristor-based nonvolatile semiconductor memory.Owing to its unique properties,theoretically,one could restart a memristor-based computer immediately without the need for reloading the data.Further,current memories are mainly binary and can store only ones and zeros,whereas memristors have multilevel states,which means a single memristor unit can replace many binary transistors and realize higher-density memory.It is believed that memristors can also implement analog storage besides binary and multilevel information memory.In this paper,an implementation scheme for analog memristive memory is considered.A charge-controlled memristor model is derived and the corresponding SPICE model is constructed.Special write and read operations are demonstrated through numerical analysis and circuit simulations.In addition,an audio analog record/play system using a memristor crossbar array is designed.This system can provide great storage capacity(long recording time)and high audio quality with a simple small circuit structure.A series of computer simulations and analyses verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.