XbarGen: A memristor based boolean logic synthesis tool

Marcello Traiola (1) , Mario Barbareschi (2) , Antonino Mazzeo , Alberto Bosio (1)

1 TEST - Test and dEpendability of microelectronic integrated SysTems
2 University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II

The shrinking process of CMOS technology is reaching its physical limits, thus impacting on several aspects, such as performances, power consumption and many others. Alternative solutions are under investigation in order to overcome CMOS limitations. Among them, the memristor is one of the promising technologies. Several works have been proposed so far, describing how to implement boolean logic functions employing memristors in a crossbar architecture. In this paper, we propose a tool able to automatically map any boolean function to a memristor based crossbar implementation. The proposed tool helps to perform a design space exploration to identify the best implementation w.r.t. performances and area overhead.

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique; Informatique

Marcello Traiola, Mario Barbareschi, Antonino Mazzeo, Alberto Bosio. XbarGen: A memristor based boolean logic synthesis tool. IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), Sep 2016, Tallinn, Estonia. ⟨10.1109/VLSI-SoC.2016.7753567⟩. ⟨hal-03094562⟩