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Nanoelectronic devices that mimic the functionality of synapses are a crucial requirement for performing cortical simulations of the brain. In this work we propose a ferromagnet-heavy metal heterostructure that employs spin-orbit torque to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Abhronil Sengupta , Zubair Al Azim , Xuanyao Fong , Kaushik Roy

By their very nature, Spin Waves (SWs) consume ultra-low amounts of energy, which makes them suitable for ultra-low energy consumption applications. In addition, a compressor can be utilized to further reduce the energy consumption and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Abdulqader Mahmoud , Frederic Vanderveken , Florin Ciubotaru , Christoph Adelmann , Sorin Cotofana , Said Hamdioui

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices display volatile characteristics, and are not well suited for analog applications such as neuromorphic computing. Spintronic devices, on the other hand, exhibit both non-volatile and…

Fabricating powerful neuromorphic chips the size of a thumb requires miniaturizing their basic units: synapses and neurons. The challenge for neurons is to scale them down to submicrometer diameters while maintaining the properties that…

This paper gives an overview of recent progress in the brain inspired computing field with a focus on implementation using emerging memories as electronic synapses. Design considerations and challenges such as requirements and design…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Sukru Burc Eryilmaz , Duygu Kuzum , Shimeng Yu , H. -S. Philip Wong

Neuromorphic computing has emerged as a promising avenue towards building the next generation of intelligent computing systems. It has been proposed that memristive devices, which exhibit history-dependent conductivity modulation, could…

We present a low barrier magnet based compact hardware unit for analog stochastic neurons and demonstrate its use as a building-block for neuromorphic hardware. By coupling circular magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with a CMOS based analog…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Samiran Ganguly , Kerem Y. Camsari , Avik W. Ghosh

Neuromorphic hardware as a non-Von Neumann architecture has better energy efficiency and parallelism than the conventional computer. Here, with numerical modeling spin-orbit torque (SOT) device using current-induced SOT and Joule heating…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Haotian Li , Liyuan Li , Kaiyuan Zhou , Chunjie Yan , Zhenyu Gao , Zishuang Li , Ronghua Liu

Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) and Phase Change Memory (PCM) devices have been popularly used as synapses in crossbar array based analog Neural Network (NN) circuit to achieve more energy and time efficient data classification…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Divya Kaushik , Utkarsh Singh , Upasana Sahu , Indu Sreedevi , Debanjan Bhowmik

Conventional von-Neumann computing models have achieved remarkable feats for the past few decades. However, they fail to deliver the required efficiency for certain basic tasks like image and speech recognition when compared to biological…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Akhilesh Jaiswal , Amogh Agrawal , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

The value memristor devices offer to the neuromorphic computing hardware design community rests on the ability to provide effective device models that can enable large scale integrated computing architecture application simulations.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Nathan R. McDonald , Robinson E. Pino , Peter J. Rozwood , Bryant T. Wysocki

The demand for computing power has been growing exponentially with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT). This growth requires unconventional computing primitives that prioritize energy…

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence in recent years, mankind is facing an unprecedented demand for data processing. Today, almost all data processing is performed using electrons in conventional complementary…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Qi Wang , Gyorgy Csaba , Roman Verba , Andrii V. Chumak , Philipp Pirro

Spintronic nano-neurons offer a promising route towards energy-efficient, high-performance hardware neural networks thanks to their inherent low-input nonlinear dynamics. However, training such networks remains a major bottleneck as it…

Neuromorphic computing, inspired by the brain's parallel and energy-efficient processing, offers a transformative approach to artificial intelligence. In this study, we fabricated optimized spin-transfer torque nano-oscillators (STNOs) and…

Memristive devices represent a promising technology for building neuromorphic electronic systems. In addition to their compactness and non-volatility features, they are characterized by computationally relevant physical properties, such as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Melika Payvand , Manu V Nair , Lorenz K. Muller , Giacomo Indiveri

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the development of artificial intelligence circuits and systems for edge computing applications. In-memory computing mixed-signal neuromorphic architectures provide promising ultra-low-power…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Arianna Rubino , Can Livanelioglu , Ning Qiao , Melika Payvand , Giacomo Indiveri

Conventional neuro-computing architectures and artificial neural networks have often been developed with no or loose connections to neuroscience. As a consequence, they have largely ignored key features of biological neural processing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Giacomo Indiveri , Bernabe Linares-Barranco , Robert Legenstein , George Deligeorgis , Themistoklis Prodromakis

Memristors are non-volatile nano-resistors. Their resistance can be tuned by applied currents or voltages and set to a large number of levels between two limit values. Thanks to these properties, memristors are ideal building blocks for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-26 Steven Lequeux , Joao Sampaio , Vincent Cros , Kay Yakushiji , Akio Fukushima , Rie Matsumoto , Hitoshi Kubota , Shinji Yuasa , Julie Grollier

Spintronic-based brain-inspired neuromorphic computing has recently attracted significant attention due to the exceptional properties of magnetic microstructures, including nanoscale dimensions, high stability, and low energy consumption.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Anmol Sharma , Ranjeet Kumar Brajpuriya , Vivek K. Malik , Vishakha Kaushik , Sachin Pathak