  A memristive device is a novel passive device, which is essentially a
resistor with memory. This device can be utilized for novel technical
applications like neuromorphic computation. In this paper, we focus on
anticipation - a capability of a system to decide how to react in an
environment by predicting future states. Especially, we have designed an
elementary memristive circuit for the anticipation of digital patterns, where
this circuit is based on the capability of an amoeba to anticipate periodically
occurring unipolar pulses. The resulting circuit has been verified by digital
simulations and has been realized in hardware as well. For the practical
realization, we have used an Ag-doped TiO2-x-based memristive device, which has
been fabricated in planar capacitor structures on a silicon wafer. The
functionality of the circuit is shown by simulations and measurements. Finally,
the anticipation of information is demonstrated by using images, where the
robustness of this anticipatory circuit against noise and faulty intermediate
information is visualized.
