Memristive Cluster Based Compact High-Density Nonvolatile Memory Design and Application for Image Storage

Jingru Sun; Meiqi Jiang; Qi Zhou; Chunhua Wang; Yichuang Sun

doi:10.3390/mi13060844

Memristive Cluster Based Compact High-Density Nonvolatile Memory Design and Application for Image Storage

Micromachines (Basel). 2022 May 28;13(6):844. doi: 10.3390/mi13060844.

Authors

Jingru Sun¹, Meiqi Jiang¹, Qi Zhou¹, Chunhua Wang¹, Yichuang Sun²

Affiliations

¹ College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
² School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK.

Abstract

As a new type of nonvolatile device, the memristor has become one of the most promising technologies for designing a new generation of high-density memory. In this paper, a 4-bit high-density nonvolatile memory based on a memristor is designed and applied to image storage. Firstly, a memristor cluster structure consisting of a transistor and four memristors is designed. Furthermore, the memristor cluster is used as a memory cell in the crossbar array structure to realize the memory design. In addition, when the designed non-volatile memory is applied to gray scale image storage, only two memory cells are needed for the storage of one pixel. Through the Pspice circuit simulation, the results show that compared with the state-of-the-art technology, the memory designed in this paper has better storage density and read-write speed. When it is applied to image storage, it achieves the effect of no distortion and fast storage.

Keywords: image storage; memristive cluster; memristor; nonvolatile memory.

Grants and funding

This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation of China grant number 62171182, 61971185, in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province grant number 2021JJ3014, in part by the e Open Fund Project of Key Laboratory in Hunan Universities grant number 20K027.