An Overview of Sinusoidal Oscillators Based on Memristive Devices

Abstract

Memristive devices include memristor, memcapacitor, and meminductor. Due to the adjustable resistance of the memristor, adjustable capacity of memcapacitor and adjustable inductance of meminductor, these devices can be used in the design of many analog circuits, including sinusoidal oscillators. Designing and implementation of a low-frequency voltage-controlled oscillator to achieve a wide tuning range, while meeting practical constraints such as small area and low power consumption, is a challenge. This challenge is overcome by replacing the resistors that occupy a large Silicon area in the conventional design with memristors, and hence smaller values of capacitances are used. Therefore, this chapter proposes and characterizes an overview of the implementation of memristive-based oscillators that are used in Electrical Neural Stimulation. In this chapter, an overview of the use of memristive devices in the design of sinusoidal oscillators and voltage-controlled oscillators is presented.