Synthesis of memristive one-ports with piecewise-smooth characteristics

ABSTRACT

A generalised approach for the implementation of memristive two-terminal circuits with piecewise-smooth characteristics is proposed on an example of a multifunctional circuit based on a transistor switch. Two versions of the circuit are taken into consideration: an experimental model of the piecewise-smooth memristor (Chua’s memristor) and a piecewise-smooth memristive capacitor. Physical experiments are combined with numerical modelling of the discussed circuit models. Thus, it is demonstrated that the considered circuit is a flexible solution for synthesis of a wide range of memristive systems with tunable characteristics.

KEYWORDS:

• Memristor
• memcapacitor
• piecewise-smooth nonlinearity
• analog circuits
• transistor-based switch

Acknowledgments

The author is very grateful to Anna Zakharova and Tatiana Vadivasova for helpful discussions and acknowledges support by the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 22-72-00038).

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation [22-72-00038].