Design of Counters Based on Memristors

Memristor is a nonlinear resistor with memory. It has special circuitry characteristics, which give it the ability of both storing information and operating logics. In 2010, researchers from HP Lab found that, with given stimulating voltages, memristors could finish implication logic operations. Memristor has attracted the researchers from both universities and the industry. Counter is a circuit implementing counting in digital systems and there has not been any research on counters designed with memristors. So this paper aims at designing a counter based on memristors. We first analyze and model the characteristics of memristor with HSPICE, and then design counters based on logic operations with memristors. The experimental results and analysis show that our design is right in function and has good scalability.