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A time-domain analog weighted-sum calculation model is proposed based on an integrate-and-fire-type spiking neuron model. The proposed calculation model is applied to multi-layer feedforward networks, in which weighted summations with…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Quan Wang , Hakaru Tamukoh , Takashi Morie

The neuromorphic BrainScaleS-2 ASIC comprises mixed-signal neurons and synapse circuits as well as two versatile digital microprocessors. Primarily designed to emulate spiking neural networks, the system can also operate in a vector-matrix…

Tuneable capacitors are vital for adaptive and reconfigurable electronics, yet existing approaches require continuous bias or mechanical actuation. Here we demonstrate a voltage-programmable ferroelectric memcapacitor based on HfZrO that…

In this work, we propose SEE-MCAM, scalable and compact multi-bit CAM (MCAM) designs that utilize the three-terminal ferroelectric FET (FeFET) as the proxy. By exploiting the multi-level-cell characteristics of FeFETs, our proposed SEE-MCAM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shengxi Shou , Che-Kai Liu , Sanggeon Yun , Zishen Wan , Kai Ni , Mohsen Imani , X. Sharon Hu , Jianyi Yang , Cheng Zhuo , Xunzhao Yin

Weight-only quantization has been widely explored in large language models (LLMs) to reduce memory storage and data loading overhead. During deployment on single-instruction-multiple-threads (SIMT) architectures, weights are stored in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Ruokai Yin , Yuhang Li , Priyadarshini Panda

In-memory computing hardware accelerators allow more than 10x improvements in peak efficiency and performance for matrix-vector multiplications (MVM) compared to conventional digital designs. For this, they have gained great interest for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Pouya Houshmand , Marian Verhelst

Neuromorphic photonics promises sub-nanosecond latency, ultrawide bandwidth, and high parallelism, but practical scalability is constrained by fabrication tolerances, spectral alignment, and tuning energy. Here, we present a large-scale,…

A new spintronic nonvolatile memory cell analogous to 1T DRAM with non-destructive read is proposed. The cells can be used as neural computing units. A dual-circuit neural network architecture is proposed to leverage these devices against…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Andrew W. Stephan , Qiuwen Lou , Michael Niemier , X. Sharon Hu , Steven J. Koester

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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Mohammadreza Esmali Nojehdeh , Sajjad Parvin , Mustafa Altun

The multiple ferroelectric polarization tuned by external electric field could be used to simulate the biological synaptic weight. Ferroelectric synaptic devices have two advantages compared with other reported ones: One is the intrinsic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Bobo Tian , Ni Zhong , Chungang Duan

Artificial neural networks have become ubiquitous in modern life, which has triggered the emergence of a new class of application specific integrated circuits for their acceleration. ReRAM-based accelerators have gained significant traction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Jason K. Eshraghian , Sung-Mo Kang , Seungbum Baek , Garrick Orchard , Herbert Ho-Ching Iu , Wen Lei

Despite all the progress of semiconductor integrated circuit technology, the extreme complexity of the human cerebral cortex makes the hardware implementation of neuromorphic networks with a comparable number of devices exceptionally…

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This work presents a novel approach to configure 2T-nC ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) for performing single cell logic-in-memory operations, highlighting its advantages in energy-efficient computation over conventional DRAM-based approaches.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Rudra Biswas , Jiahui Duan , Shan Deng , Xuezhong Niu , Yixin Qin , Prapti Panigrahi , Varun Parekh , Rajiv Joshi , Kai Ni , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Multilayered artificial neural networks (ANN) have found widespread utility in classification and recognition applications. The scale and complexity of such networks together with the inadequacies of general purpose computing platforms have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Parami Wijesinghe , Syed Shakib Sarwar , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Kaushik Roy

Neuromorphic computing demands synaptic elements that can store and update weights with high precision while being read non-destructively. Conventional ferroelectric synapses store weights in remnant polarization states and might require…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Shubham Jadhav , Kaustav Roy , Luis Amaro , Thejas Basavarajappa , Madhav Ramesh , Debdeep Jena , Huili , Xing , Amit Lal

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the most successful machine learning techniques for image, voice and video processing. CNNs require large amounts of processing capacity and memory bandwidth. Hardware accelerators have been…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-03 James Garland , David Gregg

Silicon ferroelectric field-effect transistors (FeFETs) with low-k interfacial layer (IL) between ferroelectric gate stack and silicon channel suffers from high write voltage, limited write endurance and large read-after-write latency due…

Ferroelectric field-effect transistors (FeFET) with two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor channels are promising low-power, embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) candidates for next-generation in-memory computing. However, the performance of…

Recent trends in the field of neural network accelerators investigate weight quantization as a means to increase the resource- and power-efficiency of hardware devices. As full on-chip weight storage is necessary to avoid the high energy…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Charlotte Frenkel , Jean-Didier Legat , David Bol

Compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerators have emerged as a promising way for enhancing the energy efficiency of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Deploying CNNs on CIM platforms generally requires quantization of network weights and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Wenyong Zhou , Zhengwu Liu , Yuan Ren , Ngai Wong