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Neuromorphic devices, leveraging novel physical phenomena, offer a promising path toward energy-efficient hardware beyond CMOS technology by emulating brain-inspired computation. However, their progress is often limited to proof-of-concept…

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The desire to empower resource-limited edge devices with computer vision (CV) must overcome the high energy consumption of collecting and processing vast sensory data. To address the challenge, this work proposes an energy-efficient…

Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJs) constitute the novel memory element in STT-MRAM, which is ramping to production at major foundries as an eFlash replacement. MTJ switching exhibits a stochastic behavior due to thermal fluctuations, which is…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are increasingly studied as energy-efficient alternatives to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), particularly for edge intelligence. However, prior work has largely emphasized large-scale models, leaving the…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) promise orders-of-magnitude lower power consumption and low-latency inference on neuromorphic hardware for a wide range of robotic tasks. In this work, we present an energy-efficient implementation of a…

The primate visual cortex exhibits topographic organization, where functionally similar neurons are spatially clustered, a structure widely believed to enhance neural processing efficiency. While prior works have demonstrated that…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are quickly gaining traction as a viable alternative to Deep Neural Networks (DNN). In comparison to DNNs, SNNs are more computationally powerful and provide superior energy efficiency. SNNs, while exciting at…

There is an increasing interest in emulating Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic computing devices due to their low energy consumption. Recent advances have allowed training SNNs to a point where they start to compete with…

Hardware reliability is adversely affected by the downscaling of semiconductor devices and the scale-out of systems necessitated by modern applications. Apart from crashes, this unreliability often manifests as silent data corruptions…

This article presents design techniques proposed for efficient hardware implementation of feedforward artificial neural networks (ANNs) under parallel and time-multiplexed architectures. To reduce their design complexity, after the weights…

Bayesian inference is an effective approach for solving statistical learning problems, especially with uncertainty and incompleteness. However, Bayesian inference is a computing-intensive task whose efficiency is physically limited by the…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as an attractive alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, since they provide higher computational efficiency in event driven neuromorphic hardware. However, the state-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are good candidates to produce ultra-energy-efficient hardware. However, the performance of these models is currently behind traditional methods. Introducing multi-layered SNNs is a promising way to reduce…

It looks very attractive to coordinate racetrack-memory (RM) and stochastic-computing (SC) jointly to build an ultra-low power neuron-architecture.However, the above combination has always been questioned in a fatal weakness that the heavy…