® ArC Instruments Ltd., 2017
Memristor Characterisation Platform
User Manual
rev. 1.3
Страница 1: ...ArC Instruments Ltd 2017 Memristor Characterisation Platform User Manual rev 1 3...
Страница 2: ...3 3 Connecting to ArC ONE 10 3 4 Basic Operations 11 Device Selection 11 Custom Arrays 12 Read Operation 13 Manual Write Pulsing 14 Data Display 14 Device History 15 Saving Data 15 3 5 Advanced Pulsi...
Страница 3: ...est engineers ArC ONE can effortlessly be integrated into any R D setting to accelerate discovery It can be used with any prober for accessing from single up to 1024 devices directly on wafer or even...
Страница 4: ...board either plug in the provided AC power adaptor in the DC plug or connect a desktop power supply to the banana sockets Toggle the power supply switch towards the required power supply input The re...
Страница 5: ...4 ArC Instruments Ltd Figure 2 PLCC68 and surrounding headers pin map...
Страница 6: ...Control exe in the ArC ONE Control folder to start the interface Connect your PC to the board via the USB cable and plug in the provided DC adaptor If you notice any anomalies reset the mBED To updat...
Страница 7: ...ar and Exit options Settings menu allows the user to modify hardware settings and choose a new working directory on the fly Help menu shows the documentation this file and ArC Instruments Ltd contact...
Страница 8: ...onological order During the application of an automated pulsing script the plot is updated live with incoming measurement data Device History panel Contains the pulsing history for each device in the...
Страница 9: ...m the BNCs to the selected device in PLCC68 package or via header banks 4 Offline mode used to visualize previously acquired measurements through the ArC system ArC ONE biasing hardware disabled Worki...
Страница 10: ...9 ArC Instruments Ltd Figure 5 Live Local session mode board connectivity Figure 6 Live External BNC session mode board connectivity Figure 7 Live BNC to Local session mode board connectivity...
Страница 11: ...e corresponding COM port of the ArC ONE board If you don t know it you can find it in Windows by going to Right click My Computer Select Manage On the left hand side select Device Manager Search for P...
Страница 12: ...ar Panel to select it The device will be highlighted by a black outline Any following invasive operation will be performed on that device Hovering the mouse over a crossbar device shows address and re...
Страница 13: ...browse array file button is pressed The set of device addresses are then highlighted in the Crossbar Panel while the others are hidden Any device select or device operation will be constrained to thi...
Страница 14: ...n the crossbar Update Read updates the reading method on the ArC board Select the reading method between 1 Classic reads at 0 5V suitable for linear resistors fast 2 TIA reads at a programmable voltag...
Страница 15: ...s in the Data Plot panel Press Full to display all recorded data points for the selected device Press Range to display the last X number of points where X is set in the adjacent counter Tick the log Y...
Страница 16: ...rations are tagged with Pulse x N where N is the number of manual WRITE pulses applied in sequence Advanced pulsing algorithms are tagged with their corresponding name Double clicking some advanced pu...
Страница 17: ...ents the resistance of the device read at Vread Amplitude PulseWidth is recorded as 0 CT_i_x Intermediate data points during a CurveTracer measurement x represents the cycle number Same as above CT_e...
Страница 18: ...ice at address W 15 B 15 Pulse Wordline Bitline Resistance Amplitude V s Tag ReadTag Vread 0 15 15 3710 626 0 5 0 S R2 V 0 5 R2 0 5 1 15 15 3709 371 0 5 0 S R2 V 0 5 R2 0 5 2 15 15 3711 8 0 5 0 S R2 V...
Страница 19: ...T_i_1 R2 0 3035 41 15 15 4640 74 0 20174 0 CT_i_1 R2 0 20174 42 15 15 4973 099 0 09959 0 CT_e R2 0 09959 43 15 15 3578 096 0 5 0 S R2 V 0 5 R2 0 5 44 15 15 3580 594 0 5 0 S R2 V 0 5 R2 0 5 45 15 15 27...
Страница 20: ...748 2 0 0001 EN_i R2 0 3 90 15 15 2935 807 2 0 0001 EN_i R2 0 3 91 15 15 3960 851 2 0 0001 EN_i R2 0 3 92 15 15 3010 295 2 0 0001 EN_i R2 0 3 93 15 15 3975 576 2 0 0001 EN_i R2 0 3 94 15 15 3030 883...
Страница 21: ...eker Assuming a bipolar device apply voltage pulses of increasing width and amplitude of both polarities in order to extract the pulse parameters which elicits repeatable analogue RS All pulsing scrip...
Страница 22: ...ulses Nr of pulses sets the number of identical pulses to be applied in sequence during one pulse batch Resistance threshold halts the ramp when the resistance of the device has undershot this value T...
Страница 23: ...sitive current Halt and return checkbox When checked the input voltage will cut off in 30us then return to 0 in voltage step increments only after either of the current thresholds have been exceeded I...
Страница 24: ...the constant pulse width Voltage min V sets the start voltage of each ramp Voltage step V sets the voltage step per consecutive batches in the same ramp Voltage max V sets the voltage step per consec...
Страница 25: ...initial polarity can be chosen by the user Read after pulse checkbox activates reading after each voltage pulse is applied A SwitchSeeker entry will appear in the Device History panel Double click it...
Страница 26: ...Manual Operations panel Endurance Measure resistive state switch endurance with this module It applies alternating polarity voltage pulse trains to toggle the state of single range or full array of de...
Страница 27: ...the system will continue reading batches of data until the Stop time is reached Note Once a data batch has started it will finish even if it ends after the prescribed stop time b Linear fit The syste...
Страница 28: ...dt and top figure shows the difference between the Pre and Post spikes which also represents the actual voltage series applied on your test device during an STDP event with that corresponding dt Move...
Страница 29: ...the right the chain column between the blue Start and End markers Rearrange them also by drag and drop and discard unwanted ones by dropping them outside the chain column When applying such an experi...
Страница 30: ...torless RRAM crossbar arrays IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 62 7 2190 2196 July 2015 Characterising volatile behaviour of memristive cells 2 R Berdan E Vasilaki G Indiveri A Khiat A Serb and T...
Страница 31: ...ard is connected to the PC A blue LED next to the mBED USB connector should be ON If the mBED is connected and no blue LEDS are on contact us 3 Unplug the USB cable and plug it back in 4 Restart the G...
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