Posted on 05/01/2008 1:07:24 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Sitting patiently before your computer as it boots up could soon be a thing of the past following the discovery of a new basic type of electrical circuit by electronics heavyweight Hewlett-Packard (HP).
According to the basics of electronic theory, there are three fundamental elements involved in the function of a passive electrical circuit, namely resistors, capacitors and inductors. However, after four decades of searching, HP scientists are now claiming to have found a potentially significant fourth element.
The Hewlett-Packard research team, led by Stanley Williams, has this week announced it has proven the existence of the “memristor” (memory resistor) which, until now, has only been a theoretical possibility put forth by Leon Chua of the University of California during the 1970s.
In uncovering the memristor, the team developed a mathematical model and physical example to support their find, which Williams describes in a Reuters report as “very different from any other electrical device.”
Outlining that no combination of resistor, capacitor or inductor will give the same property value as the memristor, Williams offers that the memory resistor functions by remembering the direction of the charge passing through it and expands to improve the flow, while it shrinks if current flows from the opposite direction.
In terms of incorporating the memory circuit technology into traditional computing platforms, Williams claims that having to boot the hard drive to access DRAM could soon be replaced by a system that instantly picks up where it left off when the user powered the computer down.
(Excerpt) Read more at thetechherald.com ...
Old diode news
Ping!........
Thanks for the memories.....
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What kind of phase shift properties does it have??
Sorry folks for an unrelated topic that is on Drudge...I don’t know how to post:
“Police: Woman believed to be ‘D.C. madam’ kills herself.”
I don’t have to think about it...it was murder.
Is this how the machine’s rose to power in the mid-21st century???
APRIL 30TH 2008 might well go down in electronics history. Megaboffins at the HP Labs in Palo Alto have conjured up something that was theorised back in 1971 (by Leon Chua at UC Berkeley), a fourth basic element of electronics: the memristor (a non-linear resistor with memory).
How is this different from a diode?
Diode direct current in one direction only.
Diodes have baked-in directional preference, but these adapt to what they are given. They’re more like a flip-flop than a diode, but they aren’t a flip-flop.
Ny guess he got it off the ship that crashed in Roswell NM.
Adjoint Hilbert-Cosine squared.
(Only joking.)
“No more BSOD’s.”
To get rid of that you must get rid of windows. All the new hardware in the world can’t make Windows run right.
Lemme guess, something else to crash or send up error windows.
If there’s no boot time, when will I have a chance to clean my glasses and blow my nose?
Robotic arms will do that for you. Think Jetsons.
Somethilng like that of the Baton Rouge Madam…dead in her jail cell…who had many names on everybody.
The Washington madam gave her list of customers to some folks. They should be made public now.
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