S. R. Nandakumar, Irem Boybat, et al.
Scientific Reports
Neuromorphic computing has emerged as a promising avenue towards building the next generation of intelligent computing systems. It has been proposed that memristive devices, which exhibit history-dependent conductivity modulation, could efficiently represent the synaptic weights in artificial neural networks. However, precise modulation of the device conductance over a wide dynamic range, necessary to maintain high network accuracy, is proving to be challenging. To address this, we present a multi-memristive synaptic architecture with an efficient global counter-based arbitration scheme. We focus on phase change memory devices, develop a comprehensive model and demonstrate via simulations the effectiveness of the concept for both spiking and non-spiking neural networks. Moreover, we present experimental results involving over a million phase change memory devices for unsupervised learning of temporal correlations using a spiking neural network. The work presents a significant step towards the realization of large-scale and energy-efficient neuromorphic computing systems.
S. R. Nandakumar, Irem Boybat, et al.
Scientific Reports
S. R. Nandakumar, Irem Boybat, et al.
Scientific Reports
Geoffrey W. Burr, Robert M. Shelby, et al.
IEEE T-ED
Irem Boybat, S. R. Nandakumar, et al.
NVMTS 2018