OpenMENA: An Open-Source Memristor Interfacing and Compute Board for Neuromorphic Edge-AI Applications

Abstract--Memristive crossbars enable in-memory multiply-accumulate and local plasticity learning, offering a path to energy-efficient edge AI. T o this end, we present Open-MENA (Open Mimristor-in-Memory Accelerator), which, to our knowledge, is the first fully open memristor interfacing system integrating (i) a reproducible hardware interface for memris-tor crossbars with mixed-signal read-program-verify loops; (ii) a firmware-software stack with high-level APIs for inference and on-device learning; and (iii) a V oltage-Incremental Proportional-Integral (VIPI) method to program pre-trained weights into analog conductances, followed by chip-in-the-loop fine-tuning to mitigate device non-idealities. OpenMENA is validated on digit recognition, demonstrating the flow from weight transfer to on-device adaptation, and on a real-world robot obstacle-avoidance task, where the memristor-based model learns to map localization inputs to motor commands. OpenMENA is released as open source to democratize memristor-enabled edge-AI research. We release all hardware design and software material as open source at: https://tinyurl.com/mr592wuf