Logic test: Arrays of memristors located where these electrical contacts converge can perform logic and memory functions.
Credit: Wei Wu
New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in materials--and what they mean.
A Memory and Logic Device
HP researchers demonstrate logic with memristors
Source: " 'Memristive' switches enable 'stateful' logic operations via material implication"
R. Stanley Williams et al.
Nature 464: 873-876
Results: Researchers at Hewlett-Packard have shown that nanoscale circuit elements called memristors, which have previously been made into memory devices, can perform full Boolean logic, the type used for computation in computer processors.
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