On Apr 8, 12:07 pm, "Edward K. Ream" <edream...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is going to be big:
>From the HP FAQ: http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2008/apr-jun/memristor_faq.html Why is memristance important? It turns out that memristance is becoming stronger as the feature sizes in circuits are getting smaller. At some point as we scale into the realm of nanoelectronics, it will be necessary to explicitly take account of memristance in our circuit models in order to simulate and design electronic circuits properly. [Wow] What types of applications could memristors have? We see two types of applications for memristors and memristive devices. The first, as the name "memory resistor" implies, is for a type of non- volatile random access memory [snip] Another interesting application is as an 'artificial synapse' in a circuit designed for analog computation. [snip] However, as experience shows, the most valuable applications of memristors will most likely come from some young student who learns about these devices and has an inspiration for something totally new. [Haha. Nice weasel words. The Nature paper shows that memristors can do computation. That is, a single (possibly 3-d) chip can contain both memory and a "cpu". ] EKR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-edi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
