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Operations typically used in machine learning al-gorithms (e.g. adds and soft max) can be implemented bycompact analog circuits. Analog Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designs that implement these algorithms using techniques…
Neuromorphic computing, which seeks to replicate the brain's ability to process information, has garnered significant attention due to its potential to achieve brain-like computing efficiency and human cognitive intelligence. Spin-orbit…
With the rise in in-memory computing architectures to reduce the compute-memory bottleneck, a new bottleneck is present between analog and digital conversion. Analog content-addressable memories (ACAM) are being recently studied for…
Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) facilitate the conversion of analog signals into a digital format. While the specific designs and settings of ADCs can vary depending on their applications, it is crucial in many modern applications to…
This paper proposes a new DC-AC converter with a less number of semiconductor switches and therefore gate drive and control circuit components. A salient feature of this inverter is its pure sinusoidal line-to-line voltages with no need for…
We demonstrate for the first time that functionally complete digital logic can be created by using three terminal devices each consisting of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) and spin transfer torque (STT) element with a shared free magnetic…
This paper presents a fully integrated second-order level-crossing sampling data converter for real-time data compression and feature extraction. Compared with level-sampling ADCs which sample at fixed voltage levels, the proposed circuits…
Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a key interaction in spintronics, allowing an electrical control of spin or magnetization and, vice versa, a magnetic control of electrical current. However, recent advances have revealed much broader…
Writing magnetic bits by spin-orbit torques (SOTs) arising from spin Hall effect creates new possibilities for ultrafast and low-power magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM). For perpendicular MRAM, an extra in-plane field is required…
Searches for radio signatures of ultra-high energy neutrinos and cosmic rays could benefit from improved efficiency by using real-time beamforming or correlation triggering. For missions with power limitations, such as the ANITA-3 Antarctic…
It has been demonstrated that the switching of perpendicular magnetization can be achieved with spin orbit torque (SOT) at an ultrafast speed and low energy consumption. However, to make the switching deterministic, an undesirable magnetic…
Both analog and digital resistive switching are essential components in the neuromorphic computing system. This work reports the influence of Cu ions for the transformation of analog to digital resistive switching in ITO/NiO/Ag memristor…
Spin-orbit torque and spin-transfer torque are leading the pathway to the future of spintronic memories. However, both of the mechanisms are suffering from intrinsic limitations. In particular, an external magnetic field is required for…
We have developed and optimized two categories of spin transfer torque magnetic tunnel junctions (STT-MTJs) that exhibit a high tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) ratio, low critical current, high outputpower in the micro watt range, and…
Neuromorphic hardware as a non-Von Neumann architecture has better energy efficiency and parallelism than the conventional computer. Here, with numerical modeling spin-orbit torque (SOT) device using current-induced SOT and Joule heating…
There exists a significant challenge in developing efficient magnetic tunnel junctions with low write currents for non-volatile memory devices. With the aim of analysing potential materials for efficient current-operated magnetic junctions…
Analog crossbar arrays consisting of emerging memory devices can greatly alleviate the computational strain required by vector matrix multiplications for neural network applications. The ability to produce spin orbit torque-magnetic…
Recent works propose neural network- (NN-) inspired analog-to-digital converters (NNADCs) and demonstrate their great potentials in many emerging applications. These NNADCs often rely on resistive random-access memory (RRAM) devices to…
In this work, a 3.5 GS/s voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) using multi-stage noise shaping (MASH) is presented. This 28nm CMOS ADC achieves second-order noise shaping in an easily-scalable, open-loop…
Analog multiplexing appears to be a promising solution for modern transmitters, where speed is the primary limitation. The objective is the development of a low-cost solution to compare different digital to analog (DAC) schemes. In…