D I S S E R T A T I O N

Devices and Circuits for Stateful Logic
and Memristive Sensing Applications

ausgeführt zum Zwecke der Erlangung des akademischen Grades
eines Doktors der technischen Wissenschaften

unter der Betreuung von
Privatdoz. Viktor Sverdlov
und
O.Univ.Prof. Siegfried Selberherr

eingereicht an der Technischen Universität Wien
Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
von

Hiwa Mahmoudi

Meiselstrasse 66/20
1140 Wien, Österreich

Matr. Nr. 1029453
geboren am 21 März 1985 in Baneh, Kurdistan, Iran

Wien, im April 2014      

 

To Xalo Rêbwar

Kurzfassung
Abstract
Kurte
Acknowledgment
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1  Introduction
 1.1  Motivation
 1.2  Scope of the Thesis
 1.3  Thesis Outline
2  Fundamentals of Memristive Devices and Systems
 2.1  Theory
 2.2  Physical Implementation
 2.3  Memristive Device Modeling
3  TiO2   -Based Memristive Stateful Logic Gates
 3.1  Overview
 3.2  Implication Logic
 3.3  Modeling
 3.4  Simulation Results
 3.5  Summary
4  Spintronic Memristive Stateful Logic Gates
 4.1  Overview
 4.2  Implication Logic Using DW-TMR Memristors
 4.3  Novel Implication Logic Gates Using STT-MTJs
 4.4  Reprogrammable Logic Using STT-MTJs
 4.5  Comparison of Improved Implication and Reprogrammable Gates
 4.6  Effect of the MTJ Device Parameters on Reliability
 4.7  Summary
5  Stateful STT-MRAM Arrays for Large-Scale Logic Circuits
 5.1  Overview
 5.2  Implementation of the Reprogrammable Architecture
 5.3  Implementation of the Improved Implication Architecture
 5.4  Complex Logic Functions Using Improved Symmetric Implication
 5.5  Toward High Performance STT-MRAM-Based Stateful Logic
 5.6  Summary
6  Memristive Charge- and Flux-Based Sensing
 6.1  Overview
 6.2  Memristive Sensing Principles
 6.3  Memristive Devices for Sensing
 6.4  Sensitivity
 6.5  Summary
7  Conclusions and Outlook
A  Implication-Based Full Adder
 A.1  NIMP-Based Full Adder
 A.2  IMP-Based Full Adder
Bibliography
List of Publications
 Publications in Scientific Journals
 Chapter in Book
 Patents
 Publications in Conference Proceedings
Curriculum Vitae