# The fourth element: Insights into the memristor

@article{Kavehei2009TheFE,
title={The fourth element: Insights into the memristor},
author={O. Kavehei and Yeong-Seuk Kim and A. Iqbal and K. Eshraghian and S. Al-Sarawi and D. Abbott},
journal={2009 International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems},
year={2009},
pages={921-927}
}
• O. Kavehei, +3 authors D. Abbott
• Published 2009
• Engineering
• 2009 International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems
New developments in nanoelectronics are promising a new generation of computing, which has greater focus on device capabilities. Further to many applications of memristors in artificial intelligence or artificial biological systems, they enable reconfigurable nanoelectronics and also provide new paradigms in application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). Providing a significant reduction in area and an unprecedented memory capacity and device density… Expand
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