An HAM-Based Analytic Modeling Methodology for Memristor Enabling Fast Convergence

Abstract: Memristor has great application prospects in various high-performance electronic systems, such as memory, artificial intelligence, and neural networks, due to its fast speed, nano-scale dimensions, and low-power consumption. However, traditional nonanalytic models and lately reported analytic models for memristor have the problems of nonconvergence and slow convergence, respectively. These problems lay great obstacles in the analysis, simulation and design of memristor. To address these problems, a modeling methodology for analytic approximate solution of the state variable in memristor is proposed in this work. This methodology solves the governing equation of memristor by adopting the Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM) for the first time, and the convergence performance of the methodology is enhanced by an optimized convergence-control parameter in the HAM. The simulation results, compared with the reported analytic models, demonstrate that the HAM-based modeling methodology achieves faster convergence while guaranteeing sufficient accuracy. Based on the methodology, it can be simultaneously revealed that highly nonlinearity is the potential sources of slow convergence in analytic models, which is beneficial for the analysis and design guidance. In addition, a Spice subcircuit is constructed based on the obtained HAM model, and then it is integrated into an oscillator to verify its applicability. Due to the generality of HAM, this methodology may be easily extended to other memory devices.