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Non-filamentary non-volatile memory elements as synapses in neuromorphic systems

Fumarola, Alessandro
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Narayanan, P.
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Shelby, R. M.
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January 1, 2019
2019 19Th Non-Volatile Memory Technology Symposium (Nvmts 2019)
19th Non-Volatile Memory Technology Symposium (NVMTS)

Crossbar arrays of non-volatile memory (NVM) devices represent one possible path for implementing highly energy-efficient neuromorphic computing systems. For Deep Neural Networks (DNN), where information can be encoded as analog voltage and current levels, such arrays can represent matrices of synaptic weights, implementing the matrix-vector multiplication needed for algorithms such as backpropagation in a massively-parallel fashion. Previous research demonstrated a large-scale hardware-software implementation based on phasechange memories and analyzed the potential speed and power advantages over GPU-based training. In this proceeding we will discuss extensions of this work leveraging a different class of memory elements. Using the concept of jump-tables we simulate the impact of real conductance response of non-filamentary resistive devices based on Pr0.3Ca0.7 MnO3 (PCMO). With the same approach as of In we simulate a three-layer neural network with training accuracy > 90% on the MNIST dataset. The higher ON/OFF conductance ratio of improved Al/Mo/PCMO devices together with new programming strategies can lead to further accuracy improvement. Finally, we show that the bidirectional programming of Al/Mo/PCMO can be used to implement highdensity neuromorphic systems with a single conductance per synapse, at only a slight degradation to accuracy.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1109/NVMTS47818.2019.8986194
Web of Science ID

WOS:000543708100004

Author(s)
Fumarola, Alessandro
Narayanan, P.
Shelby, R. M.
Sanchez, L. L.
Burr, G. W.
Moon, K.
Jang, J.
Hwang, H.
Sidler, S.
Leblebici, Y.  
Date Issued

2019-01-01

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2019 19Th Non-Volatile Memory Technology Symposium (Nvmts 2019)
ISBN of the book

978-1-7281-4431-3

Subjects

Computer Science, Theory & Methods

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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Computer Science

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Engineering

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pcmo

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nvm

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non-von-neumann

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neuromorphic

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dnn

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phase-change memory

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device

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
19th Non-Volatile Memory Technology Symposium (NVMTS)

Durham, NC

Oct 28-30, 2019

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July 16, 2020
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/170164
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