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A neuromorphic chip that combines CMOS analog spiking neurons and memristive synapses offers a promising solution to brain-inspired computing, as it can provide massive neural network parallelism and density. Previous hybrid analog…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Xinyu Wu , Vishal Saxena , Kehan Zhu

Memristor-based Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with temporal spike encoding enable ultra-low-energy computation, making them ideal for battery-powered intelligent devices. This paper presents a circuit-level memristive spiking neural…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Santlal Prajapati , Susmita Sur-Kolay , Soumyadeep Dutta

In this article, we introduce a new nanoscale electromechanical device -- a leaky memcapacitor -- and show that it may be useful for the hardware implementation of spiking neurons. The leaky memcapacitor is a movable-plate capacitor that…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zixi Zhang , Yuriy V. Pershin , Ivar Martin

Neuromorphic architectures offer great promise for achieving computation capacities beyond conventional Von Neumann machines. The essential elements for achieving this vision are highly scalable synaptic mimics that do not undermine…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Radu Berdan , Eleni Vasilaki , Ali Khiat , Giacomo Indiveri , Alexandru Serb , Themistoklis Prodromakis

Memristive neuromorphic systems are designed to emulate human perception and cognition, where the memristor states represent essential historical information to perform both low-level and high-level tasks. However, current systems face…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Shengbo Wang , Cong Li , Tongming Pu , Jian Zhang , Weihao Ma , Luigi Occhipinti , Arokia Nathan , Shuo Gao

We show that memcapacitive (memory capacitive) systems can be used as synapses in artificial neural networks. As an example of our approach, we discuss the architecture of an integrate-and-fire neural network based on memcapacitive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-06-24 Y. V. Pershin , M. Di Ventra

We show theoretically that networks of membrane memcapacitive systems -- capacitors with memory made out of membrane materials -- can be used to perform a complete set of logic gates in a massively parallel way by simply changing the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Yuriy V. Pershin , Fabio L. Traversa , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Programming recurrent spiking neural networks (RSNNs) to robustly perform multi-timescale computation remains a difficult challenge. To address this, we describe a single-shot weight learning scheme to embed robust multi-timescale dynamics…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Madison Cotteret , Hugh Greatorex , Alpha Renner , Junren Chen , Emre Neftci , Huaqiang Wu , Giacomo Indiveri , Martin Ziegler , Elisabetta Chicca

Conventional neuro-computing architectures and artificial neural networks have often been developed with no or loose connections to neuroscience. As a consequence, they have largely ignored key features of biological neural processing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Giacomo Indiveri , Bernabe Linares-Barranco , Robert Legenstein , George Deligeorgis , Themistoklis Prodromakis

Memristor networks are capable of low-power and massive parallel processing and information storage. Moreover, they have presented the ability to apply for a vast number of intelligent data analysis applications targeting mobile edge…

Brain-inspired computing aims to mimic cognitive functions like associative memory, the ability to recall complete patterns from partial cues. Memristor technology offers promising hardware for such neuromorphic systems due to its potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Chengping He , Mingrui Jiang , Keyi Shan , Szu-Hao Yang , Zefan Li , Shengbo Wang , Giacomo Pedretti , Jim Ignowski , Can Li

Reservoir computing (RC) offers a neuromorphic framework that is particularly effective for processing spatiotemporal signals. Known for its temporal processing prowess, RC significantly lowers training costs compared to conventional…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Ankur Singh , Sanghyeon Choi , Gunuk Wang , Maryaradhiya Daimari , Byung-Geun Lee

Memristors are non-volatile nano-resistors. Their resistance can be tuned by applied currents or voltages and set to a large number of levels between two limit values. Thanks to these properties, memristors are ideal building blocks for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-26 Steven Lequeux , Joao Sampaio , Vincent Cros , Kay Yakushiji , Akio Fukushima , Rie Matsumoto , Hitoshi Kubota , Shinji Yuasa , Julie Grollier

Randomly self-assembled nanowire networks (NWNs) are dynamical systems in which junctions between two nanowires can be modelled as memristive units viewed as adaptive resistors with memory. Various memristive models have been proposed to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Marcus Kasdorf , Diego Simpson-Ochoa , Abdelrahman Bekhit , Mauro S. Ferreira , Wilten Nicola , Claudia Gomes da Rocha

Memristors have been suggested as a novel route to neuromorphic computing based on the similarity between neurons (synapses and ion pumps) and memristors. The D.C. action of the memristor is a current spike, which we think will be fruitful…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Ella Gale , Ben de Lacy Costello , Andrew Adamatzky

Memristors are low-power memory-holding resistors thought to be useful for neuromophic computing, which can compute via spike-interactions mediated through the device's short-term memory. Using interacting spikes, it is possible to build an…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Ella M. Gale

The demand for edge artificial intelligence to process event-based, complex data calls for hardware beyond conventional digital, von-Neumann architectures. Neuromorphic computing, using spiking neural networks (SNNs) with emerging…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Zhu Wang , Song Wang , Zhiyuan Du , Ruibin Mao , Yu Xiao , Hayden Kwok-Hay So , Peng Lin , Can Li

We present a fully memristive spiking neural network (MSNN) consisting of physically-realizable memristive neurons and memristive synapses to implement an unsupervised Spiking Time Dependent Plasticity (STDP) learning rule. The system is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Peng Zhou , Dong-Uk Choi , Jason K. Eshraghian , Sung-Mo Kang

Memristors have been suggested as a novel route to neuromorphic computing based on the similarity between them and neurons (specifically synapses and ion pumps). The d.c. action of the memristor is a current spike which imparts a short-term…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Ella Gale

Memristors have emerged as ideal components for modeling synaptic connections in neural networks due to their ability to emulate synaptic plasticity and memory effects. Discrete models of memristor-coupled neurons are crucial for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-07 Leila Eftekhari , Moein Khalighi , Saeid Abbasbandy