Design of High-Speed Logic Circuits with Four-Step RRAM-Based Logic Gates

• Published in: Circuits, systems, and signal processing Vol. 39; no. 6; pp. 2822 - 2840
• Main Authors: Cui, Xiaole, Ma, Xiao, Lin, Qiujun, Li, Xiang, Zhou, Hang, Cui, Xiaoxin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.06.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Circuit design; Circuits; Circuits and Systems; Electrical Engineering; Electronics and Microelectronics; Engineering; Gates (circuits); Instrumentation; Logic circuits; Memory devices; Random access memory; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Pipelined architecture; Four-step RRAM-based logic gates; Combinational logic; Sequential logic
• ISSN: 0278-081X; 1531-5878
• DOI: 10.1007/s00034-019-01300-0

The RRAM (resistive random-access memory) is one of the most competitive candidates of the emerging non-volatile memory devices. In recent years, the RRAM has been used as memory device and also to build logic circuit. However, the design method of the RRAM-based logic circuit is still an open issue. This paper proposes a design method of logic circuit based on the four-step RRAM logic gates. The design rules are studied for both the combinational and the sequential logic circuits in a parallel style. The design practices and synthesis results show that the proposed methods generate the high-performance circuits for the arbitrary logic functions. Moreover, the four-step RRAM-based logic gates are suitable for designing the circuits with pipelined architecture, since the different RRAM logic blocks have the uniform working speed. The pipelined N-bit ripple carry adder and the N-bit multiplier outperform the other RRAM base counterparts; the output results are obtained only with 2 N  + 2 and 6 N − 4 working cycles, respectively.