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A Novel "Divide and Conquer" Testing Technique for Memristor Based Lookup Table
Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  • Veeresh Anilkumar Hongal
  • Raghavendra Kotikalapudi
  • Yong-Bin Kim
  • Minsu Choi, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

The recently proposed nanoscale asynchronous crossbar architecture based on memristor-based look up table (MLUT) combines the advantages of memristor technology and asynchronous design for viable nanoscale computing. In spite of having numerous merits over the clocked counterparts and previous asynchronous designs, it is bound to have inevitable defects due to nondeterministic nanoscale assembly. In order to assess the reliability of MLUT, there is a need to develop efficient testing techniques. Typical approach so far has been to test every crosspoint on each crossbar MLUT exhaustively; this is not only tedious but is also prohibitively time consuming for designs involving large number of MLUTs. This paper introduces a novel testing scheme based on "Divide and Conquer" approach to efficiently locate the defective memristors in a MLUT. The proposed testing scheme leverages upon a special current additive property of the memristor based multiplexer. It performs binary isolation of regions, reducing the search space by half whenever applicable. Numerical simulations clearly demonstrate that the approach is generic, deterministic, and scalable.

Meeting Name
IEEE 54th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems: MWSCAS (2011: Aug. 7-10, Seoul, South Korea)
Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
  • Asynchronous Design,
  • Crossbar Architecture,
  • Divide and Conquer,
  • Look up Table,
  • Memristor,
  • Nano Scale,
  • Nanoscale Assemblies,
  • Novel Testing,
  • Search Spaces,
  • Testing Technique,
  • Asynchronous Sequential Logic,
  • Design,
  • Nanostructured Materials,
  • Nanotechnology,
  • Passive Filters,
  • Resistors,
  • Table Lookup,
  • Testing,
  • Memristors
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-1612848570; 978-1612848563
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2011 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
8-1-2011
Publication Date
01 Aug 2011
Citation Information
Veeresh Anilkumar Hongal, Raghavendra Kotikalapudi, Yong-Bin Kim and Minsu Choi. "A Novel "Divide and Conquer" Testing Technique for Memristor Based Lookup Table" Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (2011) ISSN: 1548-3746; 1558-3899
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/minsu-choi/2/