Title
An efficient synaptic architecture for artificial neural networks
Abstract
Artificial neural networks (ANN) have revolutionized the field of machine learning by providing impressive human-like performance in solving real-world tasks in computer vision, speech recognition, or complex strategic games. There is a significant interest in developing non-von Neumann coprocessors for the training of ANNs, where resistive memory devices serve as synaptic elements. However, interdevice variability, limited dynamic range and resolution, nonlinearity and asymmetric switching characteristics pose important technical challenges. We investigate the use of multi-memristive synapses to overcome these challenges. We present a detailed experimental characterization of conductance changes using a phase-change memory chip fabricated in the 90nm technology node and show how multi-memrisive synapses can address the limitations of memristive devices for synaptic implementations. Simulations show that an ANN trained with backpropagation can achieve competitive classification accuracies using such a scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/NVMTS.2017.8171302
2017 17th Non-Volatile Memory Technology Symposium (NVMTS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
real-world tasks solving,non-von Neumann coprocessors,limited dynamic range,multi-memristive synapses,synaptic implementations,memristive devices,multimemrisive synapses,phase-change memory chip,asymmetric switching characteristics,nonlinearity,interdevice variability,synaptic elements,resistive memory devices,complex strategic games,speech recognition,computer vision,machine learning,ANN,artificial neural networks,efficient synaptic architecture,size 90.0 nm
Architecture,Memory chip,Electronic engineering,Implementation,Artificial intelligence,Coprocessor,Backpropagation,Artificial neural network,Materials science,Resistive random-access memory
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-0478-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Irem Boybat1345.41
Manuel Le Gallo2479.73
S. R. Nandakumar3103.67
Timoleon Moraitis4101.52
Tomas Tuma5414.61
Bipin Rajendran64712.17
Yusuf Leblebici7771119.09
Sebastian, A.826744.35
Evangelos Eleftheriou91590118.20