RevI-Ve: A Comprehensive Software Interface for Easy ReRAM Device Characterization

Introducing the uninitiated students & researchers to ReRAM technology and its applications via true device characterization and practical laboratory work, will certainly motivate them further to implement and test their application ideas in hardware. However, the lack of knowledge of the necessary experiments and strategies to follow for the adequate treatment of such devices, is a limiting factor in this direction. This work bridges the gap introducing RevI-Ve, a comprehensive characterization software interface developed for laboratory work on ReRAM devices. RevI-Ve is compatible with the Digilent Analog Discovery instrument series and is suitable both for educational and for research purposes. RevIVe supports different voltage-/current-based circuit topologies to access the ReRAM devices and enables the quick realization of a variety of complex, yet fully-customizable, experiments. We present the principal advantages offered by the current version of this tool, a brief summary of the experiments it facilitates, and show some results with data collected from measurements on commercial Self-Directed-Channel devices sold by Knowm Inc.