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This paper presents a novel approach utilizing a scalable neural decoder application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) based on metal oxide memristors in a 180nm CMOS technology. The ASIC architecture employs in-memory computing with…

Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) is a leading emergent memory technology that is poised to replace current non-volatile memory technologies such as eFlash. However, the scaling of MRAM technologies is heavily affected by…

We propose an analog implementation of the transcendental activation function leveraging two spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (SOT-MRAM) devices and a CMOS inverter. The proposed analog neuron circuit consumes 1.8-27x…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Md Hasibul Amin , Mohammed Elbtity , Mohammadreza Mohammadi , Ramtin Zand

In-memory computing (IMC) is an effectual solution for energy-efficient artificial intelligence applications. Analog IMC amortizes the power consumption of multiple sensing amplifiers with analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Hao Cai , Yanan Guo , Bo Liu , Mingyang Zhou , Juntong Chen , Xinning Liu , Jun Yang

The ever-increasing computation complexity of fast-growing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has requested new computing paradigms to overcome the memory wall in conventional Von Neumann computing architectures. The emerging Computing-In-Memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Kaining Zhou , Yangshuo He , Rui Xiao , Kejie Huang

Machine learning has been getting a large attention in the recent years, as a tool to process big data generated by ubiquitous sensors in our daily life. High speed, low energy computing machines are in demand to enable real-time artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Zhong Sun , Giacomo Pedretti , Alessandro Bricalli , Daniele Ielmini

At the end of Silicon roadmap, keeping the leakage power in tolerable limit and bridging the bandwidth gap between processor and memory have become some of the biggest challenges. Several promising Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) such as,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Mohammad Nasim Imtiaz Khan , Swaroop Ghosh

The storage industry is moving toward emerging non-volatile memories (NVMs), including the spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (STT-MRAM) and the phase-change memory (PCM), owing to their high density and low-power…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Nikhil Rangarajan , Satwik Patnaik , Johann Knechtel , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Shaloo Rakheja

Reservoir computing has been considered as a promising intelligent computing paradigm for effectively processing complex temporal information. Exploiting tunable and reproducible dynamics in the single electronic device have been desired to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Pengfei Wang , Moyu Chen , Yongqin Xie , Chen Pan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Bin Cheng , Shi-Jun Liang , Feng Miao

Compute-in-memory (CiM) is a promising approach to improving the computing speed and energy efficiency in dataintensive applications. Beyond existing CiM techniques of bitwise logic-in-memory operations and dot product operations, this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yiming Chen , Yushen Fu , Mingyen Lee , Sumitha George , Yongpan Liu , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan , Huazhong Yang , Xueqing Li

Compute-in-memory (CIM) presents an attractive approach for energy-efficient computing in data-intensive applications. However, the development of suitable memory designs to achieve high-performance CIM remains a challenging task. Here, we…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yuhao Shu , Hongtu Zhang , Hao Sun , Mengru Zhang , Wenfeng Zhao , Qi Deng , Zhidong Tang , Yumeng Yuan , Yongqi Hu , Yu Gu , Xufeng Kou , Yajun Ha

In-memory analog matrix computing (AMC) with resistive random-access memory (RRAM) represents a highly promising solution that solves matrix problems in one step. However, the existing AMC circuits each have a specific connection topology…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lunshuai Pan , Shiqing Wang , Pushen Zuo , Zhong Sun

We have modified a commercial NOR flash memory array to enable high-precision tuning of individual floating-gate cells for analog computing applications. The modified array area per cell in a 180 nm process is about 1.5 um^2. While this…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-10-10 F. Merrikh Bayat , X. Guo , H. A. Ommani , N. Do , K. K. Likharev , D. B. Strukov

Conventional neuro-computing architectures and artificial neural networks have often been developed with no or loose connections to neuroscience. As a consequence, they have largely ignored key features of biological neural processing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Giacomo Indiveri , Bernabe Linares-Barranco , Robert Legenstein , George Deligeorgis , Themistoklis Prodromakis

Processing-in-memory (PIM) is attractive to overcome the limitations of modern computing systems. Numerous PIM systems exist, varying by the technologies and logic techniques used. Successful operation of specific logic functions is crucial…

Memristor crossbar arrays are used in a wide range of in-memory and neuromorphic computing applications. However, memristor devices suffer from non-idealities that result in the variability of conductive states, making programming them to a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-05-13 A. P. James , L. O. Chua

The brain performs intelligent tasks with extremely low energy consumption. This work takes inspiration from two strategies used by the brain to achieve this energy efficiency: the absence of separation between computing and memory…

Performing data-intensive tasks in the von Neumann architecture is challenging to achieve both high performance and power efficiency due to the memory wall bottleneck. Computing-in-memory (CiM) is a promising mitigation approach by enabling…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Guodong Yin , Mufeng Zhou , Yiming Chen , Wenjun Tang , Zekun Yang , Mingyen Lee , Xirui Du , Jinshan Yue , Jiaxin Liu , Huazhong Yang , Yongpan Liu , Xueqing Li

Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures have demonstrated great potential in accelerating numerous deep learning tasks. Particularly, resistive random-access memory (RRAM) devices provide a promising hardware substrate to build PIM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Weidong Cao , Yilong Zhao , Adith Boloor , Yinhe Han , Xuan Zhang , Li Jiang

Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM), or memristive, devices promise energy-efficient realization of deep learning, when efficiently integrated with mixed-signal integrated circuits on a CMOS substrate. Even though several algorithmic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Vishal Saxena , Xinyu Wu , Kehan Zhu