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In this paper, we review the different memristive threshold logic (MTL) circuits that are inspired from the synaptic action of flow of neurotransmitters in the biological brain. Brain like generalisation ability and area minimisation of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Akshay Kumar Maan , Deepthi Anirudhan Jayadevi , Alex Pappachen James

Neuromorphic computing has recently gained momentum with the emergence of various neuromorphic processors. As the field advances, there is an increasing focus on developing training methods that can effectively leverage the unique…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Sanaz Mahmoodi Takaghaj , Jack Sampson

A striking difference between brain-inspired neuromorphic processors and current von Neumann processors architectures is the way in which memory and processing is organized. As Information and Communication Technologies continue to address…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Giacomo Indiveri , Shih-Chii Liu

In this article, we introduce a new nanoscale electromechanical device -- a leaky memcapacitor -- and show that it may be useful for the hardware implementation of spiking neurons. The leaky memcapacitor is a movable-plate capacitor that…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zixi Zhang , Yuriy V. Pershin , Ivar Martin

A large effort is devoted to the research of new computing paradigms associated to innovative nanotechnologies that should complement and/or propose alternative solutions to the classical Von Neumann/CMOS association. Among various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-09 F. Alibart , S. Pleutin , O. Bichler , C. Gamrat , T. Serrano-Gotarredona , B. Linares-Barranco , D. Vuillaume

Processing-in-memory (PIM) turns out to be a promising solution to breakthrough the memory wall and the power wall. While prior PIM designs yield successful implementation of bitwise Boolean logic operations locally in memory, it is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Xin Ma , Liang Chang , Shuangchen Li , Lei Deng , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

We introduce an algorithm to do backpropagation on a spiking network. Our network is "spiking" in the sense that our neurons accumulate their activation into a potential over time, and only send out a signal (a "spike") when this potential…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Peter O'Connor , Max Welling

Processing-in-memory (PIM) solutions vastly accelerate systems by reducing data transfer between computation and memory. Memristors possess a unique property that enables storage and logic within the same device, which is exploited in the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Orian Leitersdorf , Ronny Ronen , Shahar Kvatinsky

Nanoscale resistive memories are expected to fuel dense integration of electronic synapses for large-scale neuromorphic system. To realize such a brain-inspired computing chip, a compact CMOS spiking neuron that performs in-situ learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Xinyu Wu , Vishal Saxena , Kehan Zhu , Sakkarapani Balagopal

Neuromorphic architectures, which incorporate parallel and in-memory processing, are crucial for accelerating artificial neural network (ANN) computations. This work presents a novel memristor-based multi-layer neural network (memristive…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Santlal Prajapat , Manobendra Nath Mondal , Susmita Sur-Kolay

Neuromorphic engineers aim to develop event-based spiking neural networks (SNNs) in hardware. These SNNs closer resemble dynamics of biological neurons than todays' artificial neural networks and achieve higher efficiency thanks to the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-25 Hajar Asgari , BabakMazloom-Nezhad Maybodi , Raphaela Kreiser , Yulia Sandamirskaya

We present the design and numerical simulation of a spiking neuron capable of on-chip machine learning. Built within the CMOS+X framework, the spiking neuron consists of an NMOS transistor combined with a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ).…

The practical applications based on recurrent spiking neurons are limited due to their non-trivial learning algorithms. The temporal nature of spiking neurons is more favorable for hardware implementation where signals can be represented in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-07-16 Arfan Ghani , Martin McGinnity , Liam Maguire , Jim Harkin

As neural computation is revolutionizing the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), rethinking the ideal neural hardware is becoming the next frontier. Fast and reliable von Neumann architecture has been the hosting platform for neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yigit Demirag

The emerging memristive Memory Processing Unit (mMPU) overcomes the memory wall through memristive devices that unite storage and logic for real processing-in-memory (PIM) systems. At the core of the mMPU is stateful logic, which is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Orian Leitersdorf , Ronny Ronen , Shahar Kvatinsky

Diffusive memristors owing to their ability to produce current spiking when a constant or slowly changing voltage is applied are competitive candidates for the development of artificial electronic neurons. These artificial neurons can be…

Memristive devices hold promise to improve the scale and efficiency of machine learning and neuromorphic hardware, thanks to their compact size, low power consumption, and the ability to perform matrix multiplications in constant time.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Zhenming Yu , Ming-Jay Yang , Jan Finkbeiner , Sebastian Siegel , John Paul Strachan , Emre Neftci

Brain-inspired neuromorphic computing which consist neurons and synapses, with an ability to perform complex information processing has unfolded a new paradigm of computing to overcome the von Neumann bottleneck. Electronic synaptic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Dwipak Prasad Sahu , Prabana Jetty , S. Narayana Jammalamadaka

A vast majority of computation in the brain is performed by spiking neural networks. Despite the ubiquity of such spiking, we currently lack an understanding of how biological spiking neural circuits learn and compute in-vivo, as well as…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-31 Friedemann Zenke , Surya Ganguli

Solving mazes is not just a fun pastime. Mazes are prototype models in graph theory, topology, robotics, traffic optimization, psychology, and in many other areas of science and technology. However, when maze complexity increases their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Yuriy V. Pershin , Massimiliano Di Ventra