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Analog Emulator of Genuinely Floating Memcapacitor with Piecewise-Linear Constitutive Relation

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This paper presents a method for emulating floating memcapacitors with piecewise-linear constitutive relations between time-domain integrals of voltage and charge. The emulation is based on multiple-state floating capacitor, implemented via the switched-capacitor technique. The states of internal switches are derived from the memcapacitor memory, which stores the history of the terminal voltage. The procedure is demonstrated on a two-state memcapacitor. Computer simulations are compared with measurements on the manufactured specimen.

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This work has been supported by the Czech Science Foundation under Grant 14-19865S, by the Project for the development of K217 Department, UD Brno, and by the internal grant of the Czech Technical University in Prague No. SGS13/206/OHK3/3T/13, Czech Republic.

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    Dalibor Biolek

  2. Department of Radio Electronics, Brno University of Technology, Technicka 12, Brno, Czech Republic

    Viera Biolková & Zdeněk Kolka

  3. Department of Radio Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, Prague, Czech Republic

    Josef Dobeš

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Biolek, D., Biolková, V., Kolka, Z. et al. Analog Emulator of Genuinely Floating Memcapacitor with Piecewise-Linear Constitutive Relation. Circuits Syst Signal Process 35, 43–62 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-015-0067-8

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