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Spin-orbit torque (SOT) enables ultra-fast, energy-efficient magnetization switching, making it a promising mechanism for introducing MRAMs for cache memory applications. However, current SOT-MRAM devices face write efficiency limitations,…

This project explores the use of non-volatile synapses in neuromorphic computing for pattern recognition tasks through a comprehensive simulation-based approach. The main approach is through spintronic synapses, which leverage the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Luis Sosa , Minhyeok Wi , Miguel Barrera , Imran Nasrullah , Yingying Wu

Memristors offer significant advantages as in-memory computing devices due to their non-volatility, low power consumption, and history-dependent conductivity. These attributes are particularly valuable in the realm of neuromorphic circuits…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Julio Souto , Guillermo Botella , Daniel García , Raúl Murillo , Alberto del Barrio

One of the most exciting applications of Spin Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (ST-MRAM) is the in-memory implementation of deep neural networks, which could allow improving the energy efficiency of Artificial Intelligence by…

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) is an emerging technology that enables the efficient manipulation of spintronic devices. The initial processes of interest in SOTs involved electric fields, spin-orbit coupling, conduction electron spins and…

This paper presents a simulation platform, namely CIMulator, for quantifying the efficacy of various synaptic devices in neuromorphic accelerators for different neural network architectures. Nonvolatile memory devices, such as resistive…

In-memory computing is a promising approach to addressing the processor-memory data transfer bottleneck in computing systems. We propose Spin-Transfer Torque Compute-in-Memory (STT-CiM), a design for in-memory computing with Spin-Transfer…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Shubham Jain , Ashish Ranjan , Kaushik Roy , Anand Raghunathan

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

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) represents an energy efficient method to control magnetization in magnetic memory devices. However, deterministically switching perpendicular memory bits usually requires the application of an additional bias field…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Qianchang Wang , John Domann , Guoqiang Yu , Anthony Barra , Kang L. Wang , Gregory P. Carman

Biologically-inspired computing models have made significant progress in recent years, but the conventional von Neumann architecture is inefficient for the large-scale matrix operations and massive parallelism required by these models. This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Siqing Fu , Lizhou Wu , Tiejun Li , Chunyuan Zhang , Jianmin Zhang , Sheng Ma

Photonic neuromorphic computing offers compelling advantages in power efficiency and parallel processing, but often falls short in realizing scalable nonlinearity and long-term memory. We overcome these limitations by employing silicon…

The use of analog resistance states for storing weights in neuromorphic systems is impeded by fabrication imprecision and device stochasticity that limit the precision of synapse weights. This challenge can be resolved by emulating analog…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Peng Zhou , Julie A. Smith , Laura Deremo , Stephen K. Heinrich-Barna , Joseph S. Friedman

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in the field of brain-inspired computing based on neural-network architectures. In order to translate the related algorithmic models into powerful, yet energy-efficient cognitive-computing…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-17 Mrigank Sharad , D. Fan , Kaushik Roy

Neuromorphic Multiply-And-Accumulate (MAC) circuits utilizing synaptic weight elements based on SRAM or novel Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) provide a promising approach for highly efficient hardware representations of neural networks. NVM…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Borna Obradovic , Titash Rakshit , Ryan Hatcher , Jorge A. Kittl , Mark S. Rodder

We present a design-scheme for ultra-low power neuromorphic hardware using emerging spin-devices. We propose device models for 'neuron', based on lateral spin valves and domain wall magnets that can operate at ultra-low terminal voltage of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-07-19 Mrigank Sharad , Charles Augustine , Georgios Panagopoulos , Kaushik Roy

This paper introduces the concept of spin-orbit-torque-MRAM (SOT-MRAM) based physical unclonable function (PUF). The secret of the PUF is stored into a random state of a matrix of perpendicular SOT-MRAMs. Here, we show experimentally and…

Non-Boolean computing based on emerging post-CMOS technologies can potentially pave the way for low-power neural computing platforms. However, existing work on such emerging neuromorphic architectures have either focused on solely mimicking…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Abhronil Sengupta , Yong Shim , Kaushik Roy

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

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

Current-driven switching of nonvolatile spintronic materials and devices based on spin-orbit torques offer fast data processing speed, low power consumption, and unlimited endurance for future information processing applications. Analogous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-23 Nan Zhang , Yi Cao , Yucai Li , Andrew W. Rushforth , Yang Ji , Houzhi Zheng , Kaiyou Wang