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In-memory computing (IMC) utilizing synaptic crossbar arrays is promising for energy-efficient deep neural network (DNN) accelerators. Various technologies (CMOS and post-CMOS) have been explored as synaptic device candidates, each with its…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Chunguang Wang , Jeffry Victor , Sumeet K. Gupta

In this work, we present a novel non-volatile spin transfer torque (STT) assisted spin-orbit torque (SOT) based ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) with 5 transistors and 2 magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). We perform a comprehensive…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Siri Narla , Piyush Kumar , Azad Naeemi

The concept of perpendicular shape anisotropy spin-transfer torque magnetic random-access memory (PSA-STT-MRAM) consists in increasing the storage layer thickness to values comparable to the cell diameter, to induce a perpendicular shape…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 N. Caçoilo , S. Lequeux , B. M. S. Teixeira , B. Dieny , R. C. Sousa , N. A. Sobolev , O. Fruchart , I. L. Prejbeanu , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) magnetization switching of ferromagnets with large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy has a great potential for the next-generation non-volatile magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM). It requires a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Tuo Fan , Nguyen Huynh Duy Khang , Soichiro Nakano , Pham Nam Hai

Spin Transfer Torque Random Access Memory (STT-RAM) has garnered interest due to its various characteristics such as non-volatility, low leakage power, high density. Its magnetic properties have a vital role in STT switching operations…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Saeed Seyedfaraji , Javad Talafy Daryani , Mohamed M. Sabry Aly , Semeen Rehman

Hardware neural networks that implement synaptic weights with embedded non-volatile memory, such as spin torque memory (ST-MRAM), are a major lead for low energy artificial intelligence. In this work, we propose an approximate storage…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Nicolas Locatelli , Adrien F. Vincent , Damien Querlioz

Crossbar arrays using emerging non-volatile memory technologies such as Resistive RAM (ReRAM) offer high density, fast access speed and low-power. However the bandwidth of the crossbar is limited to single-bit read/write per access to avoid…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Mohammad Nasim Imtiaz Khan , Swaroop Ghosh , Radha Krishna Aluru , Rashmi Jha

Non-volatile Neuromorphic Computing (NC) elements utilizing Spin Orbit Torque (SOT) provide a viable solution to alleviate the memory wall bottleneck in contemporary computing systems. However, the two challenges, low SOT efficiency and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Badsha Sekh , Hasibur Rahaman , Subhakanta Das , Mitali , Ramu Maddu , Kesavan Jawahar , S. N. Piramanayagam

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

Developing ultra-low-energy superconducting computing and fault-tolerant quantum computing will require scalable superconducting memory. While conventional superconducting logic-based memory cells have facilitated early demonstrations,…

Processing-in-memory (PIM) reduces data transfer latency by rolling memory and logic elements into one compute location. As an emergent material candidate for such an architecture, we propose a strained Weyl semimetal based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Youjian Chen , Hamed Vakili , Md Golam Morshed , Avik W. Ghosh

Accelerating training of artificial neural networks (ANN) with analog resistive crossbar arrays is a promising idea. While the concept has been verified on very small ANNs and toy data sets (such as MNIST), more realistically sized ANNs and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Malte J. Rasch , Tayfun Gokmen , Wilfried Haensch

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…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Haotian Li , Liyuan Li , Kaiyuan Zhou , Chunjie Yan , Zhenyu Gao , Zishuang Li , Ronghua Liu

We present a novel design of a strained topological insulator spin-orbit torque random access memory (STI-SOTRAM) bit cell comprising a piezoelectric/magnet (gating)/topological insulator (TI)/magnet (storage) heterostructure that leverages…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Md Golam Morshed , Hamed Vakili , Mohammad Nazmus Sakib , Samiran Ganguly , Mircea R. Stan , Avik W. Ghosh

A device based on current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) that functions as an electronic neuron is proposed in this work. The SOT device implements an artificial neuron's thresholding (transfer) function. In the first step of a two-step…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Abhronil Sengupta , Sri Harsha Choday , Yusung Kim , Kaushik Roy

On-chip learning in a crossbar array based analog hardware Neural Network (NN) has been shown to have major advantages in terms of speed and energy compared to training NN on a traditional computer. However analog hardware NN proposals and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Nilabjo Dey , Janak Sharda , Utkarsh Saxena , Divya Kaushik , Utkarsh Singh , Debanjan Bhowmik

Future applications of spin-orbit torque will require new mechanisms to improve the efficiency for switching nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), while also controlling the magnetic dynamics to achieve fast, nanosecond scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Shengjie Shi , Yongxi Ou , S. V. Aradhya , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Memristor crossbar arrays have emerged as a key component for next-generation non-volatile memories, artificial neural networks, and analog in-memory computing (IMC) systems. By minimizing data transfer between the processor and memory,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Shah Zayed Riam , Zhenlin Pei , Kyle Mooney , Chenyun Pan , Na Gong , Jinhui Wang

Herein, a bit-wise Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in-memory accelerator is implemented using Spin-Orbit Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (SOT-MRAM) computational sub-arrays. It utilizes a novel AND-Accumulation method capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Arman Roohi , Shaahin Angizi , Deliang Fan , Ronald F DeMara

We demonstrate using micromagnetic simulations that a nanomagnet array excited by Surface Acoustic Waves (SAWs) can work as a reservoir that can classify sine and square waves with high accuracy. To evaluate memory effect and computing…