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Stochastic neurons are efficient hardware accelerators for solving a large variety of combinatorial optimization problems. "Binary" stochastic neurons (BSN) are those whose states fluctuate randomly between two levels +1 and -1, with the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Rahnuma Rahman , Samiran Ganguly , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) based on Leaky Integrate and Fire (LIF) model have been applied to energy-efficient temporal and spatiotemporal processing tasks. Thanks to the bio-plausible neuronal dynamics and simplicity, LIF-SNN benefits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Zhenzhi Wu , Hehui Zhang , Yihan Lin , Guoqi Li , Meng Wang , Ye Tang

The human brain comprises about a hundred billion neurons connected through quadrillion synapses. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) take inspiration from the brain to model complex cognitive and learning tasks. Neuromorphic engineering…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Tanmay Chavan , Sangya Dutta , Nihar R. Mohapatra , Udayan Ganguly

In this paper, we develop an in-memory analog computing (IMAC) architecture realizing both synaptic behavior and activation functions within non-volatile memory arrays. Spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (SOT-MRAM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Mohammed Elbtity , Abhishek Singh , Brendan Reidy , Xiaochen Guo , Ramtin Zand

Neuromorphic computing and spiking neural networks (SNN) mimic the behavior of biological systems and have drawn interest for their potential to perform cognitive tasks with high energy efficiency. However, some factors such as temporal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Haowen Fang , Brady Taylor , Ziru Li , Zaidao Mei , Hai Li , Qinru Qiu

Neuromorphic computing aims to mimic both the function and structure of biological neural networks to provide artificial intelligence with extreme efficiency. Conventional approaches store synaptic weights in non-volatile memory devices…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Peng Zhou , Alexander J. Edwards , Frederick B. Mancoff , Sanjeev Aggarwal , Stephen K. Heinrich-Barna , Joseph S. Friedman

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have found widespread applications in tasks such as pattern recognition and image classification. However, hardware implementations of ANNs using conventional binary arithmetic units are computationally…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Ankit Mondal , Ankur Srivastava

Today's high-performance architectures are increasingly constrained by data movement latency and energy overhead, as the slowdown of single-core performance scaling coincides with the rise of highly data-intensive workloads. In-memory…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Farzad Razi , Mehran Moghadam , Sercan Aygun , M. Hassan Najafi , Marc Riedel

We present an array of leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neuron circuits designed for the second-generation BrainScaleS mixed-signal 65-nm CMOS neuromorphic hardware. The neuronal array is embedded in the analog network core of a scaled-down…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-28 Syed Ahmed Aamir , Yannik Stradmann , Paul Müller , Christian Pehle , Andreas Hartel , Andreas Grübl , Johannes Schemmel , Karlheinz Meier

Conventional neural structures tend to communicate through analog quantities such as currents or voltages, however, as CMOS devices shrink and supply voltages decrease, the dynamic range of voltage/current-domain analog circuits becomes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Xiangyu Chen , Zolboo Byambadorj , Takeaki Yajima , Hisashi Inoue , Isao H. Inoue , Tetsuya Iizuka

The computational complexity of deep learning algorithms has given rise to significant speed and memory challenges for the execution hardware. In energy-limited portable devices, highly efficient processing platforms are indispensable for…

Abstract: Bionic learning with fused sensing, memory and processing functions outperforms artificial neural networks running on silicon chips in terms of efficiency and footprint. However, digital hardware implementation of bionic learning…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Shijie Wang , Xi Chen , Chao Zhao , Yuxin Kong , Baojun Lin , Yongyi Wu , Zhaozhao Bi , Ziyi Xuan , Tao Li , Yuxiang Li , Wei Zhang , En Ma , Zhongrui Wang , Wei Ma

All systolic or distributed neuromorphic architectures require power-efficient processing nodes. In this paper, a unifying tutorial is presented which implements multiple neuromorphic processing elements using a systematic analog approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Hamid Soleimani , Emmanuel. M. Drakakis

The deployment of Artificial Intelligence on edge devices (TinyML) is often constrained by the high power consumption and latency associated with traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and their reliance on intensive Matrix-Multiply…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Debabrata Das , Yogeeth G. K. , Arnav Gupta

Achieving fast and reliable temporal signal encoding is crucial for low-power, always-on systems. While current spike-based encoding algorithms rely on complex networks or precise timing references, simple and robust encoding models can be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Filippo Costa , Chiara De Luca

This paper introduces an analog spiking neuron that utilizes time-domain information, i.e., a time interval of two signal transitions and a pulse width, to construct a spiking neural network (SNN) for a hardware-friendly physical reservoir…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Nanako Kimura , Ckristian Duran , Zolboo Byambadorj , Ryosho Nakane , Tetsuya Iizuka

Superparamagnetic tunnel junctions (SMTJs) have emerged as a competitive, realistic nanotechnology to support novel forms of stochastic computation in CMOS-compatible platforms. One of their applications is to generate random bitstreams…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Matthew W. Daniels , Advait Madhavan , Philippe Talatchian , Alice Mizrahi , Mark D. Stiles

A neuromorphic chip that combines CMOS analog spiking neurons and memristive synapses offers a promising solution to brain-inspired computing, as it can provide massive neural network parallelism and density. Previous hybrid analog…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Xinyu Wu , Vishal Saxena , Kehan Zhu

Stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions (sMTJ) using low-barrier nanomagnets have shown promise as fast, energy-efficient, and scalable building blocks for probabilistic computing. Despite recent experimental and theoretical progress, sMTJs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Kemal Selcuk , Shun Kanai , Rikuto Ota , Hideo Ohno , Shunsuke Fukami , Kerem Y. Camsari

In neuromorphic photonic systems, device operations are typically governed by analog signals, necessitating digital-to-analog converters (DAC) and analog-to-digital converters (ADC). However, data movement between memory and these…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sean Lam , Ahmed Khaled , Simon Bilodeau , Bicky A. Marquez , Paul R. Prucnal , Lukas Chrostowski , Bhavin J. Shastri , Sudip Shekhar