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Beaubois R, Cheslet J, Duenki T, De Venuto G, Carè M, Khoyratee F, Chiappalone M, Branchereau P, Ikeuchi Y, Levi T. BiœmuS: A new tool for neurological disorders studies through real-time emulation and hybridization using biomimetic Spiking Neural Network. Nat Commun 2024; 15:5142. [PMID: 38902236 PMCID: PMC11190274 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48905-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2024] [Indexed: 06/22/2024] Open
Abstract
Characterization and modeling of biological neural networks has emerged as a field driving significant advancements in our understanding of brain function and related pathologies. As of today, pharmacological treatments for neurological disorders remain limited, pushing the exploration of promising alternative approaches such as electroceutics. Recent research in bioelectronics and neuromorphic engineering have fostered the development of the new generation of neuroprostheses for brain repair. However, achieving their full potential necessitates a deeper understanding of biohybrid interaction. In this study, we present a novel real-time, biomimetic, cost-effective and user-friendly neural network capable of real-time emulation for biohybrid experiments. Our system facilitates the investigation and replication of biophysically detailed neural network dynamics while prioritizing cost-efficiency, flexibility and ease of use. We showcase the feasibility of conducting biohybrid experiments using standard biophysical interfaces and a variety of biological cells as well as real-time emulation of diverse network configurations. We envision our system as a crucial step towards the development of neuromorphic-based neuroprostheses for bioelectrical therapeutics, enabling seamless communication with biological networks on a comparable timescale. Its embedded real-time functionality enhances practicality and accessibility, amplifying its potential for real-world applications in biohybrid experiments.
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- Romain Beaubois
- IMS, CNRS UMR5218, Bordeaux INP, University of Bordeaux, Talence, France
- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- LIMMS, CNRS-Institute of Industrial Science, UMI 2820, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- IMS, CNRS UMR5218, Bordeaux INP, University of Bordeaux, Talence, France
- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- LIMMS, CNRS-Institute of Industrial Science, UMI 2820, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- LIMMS, CNRS-Institute of Industrial Science, UMI 2820, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- DIBRIS, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
- IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy
- Rehab Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
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- IMS, CNRS UMR5218, Bordeaux INP, University of Bordeaux, Talence, France
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- DIBRIS, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
- IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy
- Rehab Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- LIMMS, CNRS-Institute of Industrial Science, UMI 2820, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- IMS, CNRS UMR5218, Bordeaux INP, University of Bordeaux, Talence, France.
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Duan X, Cao Z, Gao K, Yan W, Sun S, Zhou G, Wu Z, Ren F, Sun B. Memristor-Based Neuromorphic Chips. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2310704. [PMID: 38168750 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202310704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2023] [Revised: 12/15/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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In the era of information, characterized by an exponential growth in data volume and an escalating level of data abstraction, there has been a substantial focus on brain-like chips, which are known for their robust processing power and energy-efficient operation. Memristors are widely acknowledged as the optimal electronic devices for the realization of neuromorphic computing, due to their innate ability to emulate the interconnection and information transfer processes witnessed among neurons. This review paper focuses on memristor-based neuromorphic chips, which provide an extensive description of the working principle and characteristic features of memristors, along with their applications in the realm of neuromorphic chips. Subsequently, a thorough discussion of the memristor array, which serves as the pivotal component of the neuromorphic chip, as well as an examination of the present mainstream neural networks, is delved. Furthermore, the design of the neuromorphic chip is categorized into three crucial sections, including synapse-neuron cores, networks on chip (NoC), and neural network design. Finally, the key performance metrics of the chip is highlighted, as well as the key metrics related to the memristor devices are employed to realize both the synaptic and neuronal components.
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- Xuegang Duan
- National Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Precision Surgery & Regenerative Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Department of hepatobiliary surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Micro-and Nano-technology Research Center, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
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- National Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Precision Surgery & Regenerative Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Department of hepatobiliary surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Micro-and Nano-technology Research Center, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
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- National Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Precision Surgery & Regenerative Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Department of hepatobiliary surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Micro-and Nano-technology Research Center, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
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- National Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Precision Surgery & Regenerative Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Department of hepatobiliary surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Micro-and Nano-technology Research Center, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
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- Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Micro-and Nano-technology Research Center, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
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- College of Artificial Intelligence, Brain-inspired Computing & Intelligent Control of Chongqing Key Lab, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 DongChuan Rd, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- National Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Precision Surgery & Regenerative Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Department of hepatobiliary surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
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- National Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Precision Surgery & Regenerative Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Department of hepatobiliary surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
- Micro-and Nano-technology Research Center, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, China
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Ge Y, Liu R, Zhang G, Daoud MS, Zhang Q, Huang X, Mayet AM, Chen ZM, He S. High-Matching and Low-Cost Realization of the FHN Neuron Model on Reconfigurable FPGA Board. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 2024; 18:451-459. [PMID: 38019637 DOI: 10.1109/tbcas.2023.3337335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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The main objectives of neuromorphic engineering are the research, modeling, and implementation of neural functioning in the human brain. We provide a hardware solution that can replicate such a nature-inspired system by merging multiple scientific domains and is based on neural cell processes. This work provides a modified version of the original Fitz-Hugh Nagumo (FHN) neuron using a simple 2V term called Hybrid Piece-Wised Base-2 Model (HPWBM), which accurately reproduces numerous patterns of the original neuron model. With reduced terms, we suggest modifying the original nonlinear term to achieve high matching accuracy and little computing error. Time domain and phase portraits are used to validate the proposed model, which shows that it can reproduce all of the FHN model's properties with high accuracy and little mistake. We provide an effective digital hardware approach for large-scale neuron implementations based on resource-sharing and pipelining strategies. The Hardware Description Language (HDL) is used to construct the hardware on an FPGA as a proof of concept. The recommended model hardly uses 0.48 percent of the resources on a Virtex 4 FPGA board, according to the results of the hardware implementation. The circuit can run at a maximum frequency of 448.236 MHz, according to the static timing study.
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Jeon JW, Park B, Jang YH, Lee SH, Jeon S, Han J, Ryoo SK, Kim KD, Shim SK, Cheong S, Choi W, Jeon G, Kim S, Yoo C, Han JK, Hwang CS. Vertically Stackable Ovonic Threshold Switch Oscillator Using Atomic Layer Deposited Ge 0.6Se 0.4 Film for High-Density Artificial Neural Networks. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024. [PMID: 38491936 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c18625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/18/2024]
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Nanodevice oscillators (nano-oscillators) have received considerable attention to implement in neuromorphic computing as hardware because they can significantly improve the device integration density and energy efficiency compared to complementary metal oxide semiconductor circuit-based oscillators. This work demonstrates vertically stackable nano-oscillators using an ovonic threshold switch (OTS) for high-density neuromorphic hardware. A vertically stackable Ge0.6Se0.4 OTS-oscillator (VOTS-OSC) is fabricated with a vertical crossbar array structure by growing Ge0.6Se0.4 film conformally on a contact hole structure using atomic layer deposition. The VOTS-OSC can be vertically integrated onto peripheral circuits without causing thermal damage because the fabrication temperature is <400 °C. The fabricated device exhibits oscillation characteristics, which can serve as leaky integrate-and-fire neurons in spiking neural networks (SNNs) and coupled oscillators in oscillatory neural networks (ONNs). For practical applications, pattern recognition and vertex coloring are demonstrated with SNNs and ONNs, respectively, using semiempirical simulations. This structure increases the oscillator integration density significantly, enabling complex tasks with a large number of oscillators. Moreover, it can enhance the computational speed of neural networks due to its rapid switching speed.
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- Jeong Woo Jeon
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Daehagdong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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Yun SY, Han JK, Choi YK. A Nanoscale Bistable Resistor for an Oscillatory Neural Network. NANO LETTERS 2024; 24:2751-2757. [PMID: 38259042 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
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Coupled oscillators construct an oscillatory neural network (ONN) by mimicking the interactions among neurons in the human brain. This work demonstrates a fully CMOS-based oscillator consisting of a bistable resistor (biristor), which shares a structure identical with that of a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor, except for the use of a gate electrode. The biristor-based oscillator (birillator) generates oscillating voltage signals in the form of spikes due to a single transistor latch phenomenon. When two birillators are connected with a coupling capacitor, they become synchronized with a phase difference of 180°. These coupled oscillation characteristics are experimentally investigated for an ONN. As practical applications of the ONN with coupled birillators, edge detection and vertex coloring are conducted by encoding information into phase differences between them. The proposed fully CMOS-based birillators are advantageous for low power consumption, high CMOS compatibility, and a compact footprint area.
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- Seong-Yun Yun
- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- System Semiconductor Engineering and Department of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University, 35 Baekbeom-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul 04107, Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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Lu C, Meng J, Yu J, Song J, Wang T, Zhu H, Sun QQ, Zhang DW, Chen L. Novel Three-Dimensional Artificial Neural Network Based on an Eight-Layer Vertical Memristor with an Ultrahigh Rectify Ratio (>10 7) and an Ultrahigh Nonlinearity (>10 5) for Neuromorphic Computing. NANO LETTERS 2024; 24:2018-2024. [PMID: 38315050 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2024]
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In recent years, memristors have successfully demonstrated their significant potential in artificial neural networks (ANNs) and neuromorphic computing. Nonetheless, ANNs constructed by crossbar arrays suffer from cross-talk issues and low integration densities. Here, we propose an eight-layer three-dimensional (3D) vertical crossbar memristor with an ultrahigh rectify ratio (RR > 107) and an ultrahigh nonlinearity (>105) to overcome these limitations, which enables it to reach a >1 Tb array size without reading failure. Furthermore, the proposed 3D RRAM shows advanced endurance (>1010 cycles), retention (>104 s), and uniformity. In addition, several synaptic functions observed in the human brain were mimicked. On the basis of the advanced performance, we constructed a novel 3D ANN, whose learning efficiency and recognition accuracy were enhanced significantly compared with those of conventional single-layer ANNs. These findings hold promise for the development of highly efficient, precise, integrated, and stable VLSI neuromorphic computing systems.
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- Chen Lu
- School of Microelectronics, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Shanghai 201203, China
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- School of Microelectronics, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Shanghai 201203, China
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- School of Microelectronics, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Shanghai 201203, China
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- School of Microelectronics, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Shanghai 201203, China
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- School of Microelectronics, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Shanghai 201203, China
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- School of Microelectronics, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Shanghai 201203, China
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- School of Microelectronics, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Shanghai 201203, China
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- School of Microelectronics, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Shanghai 201203, China
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- School of Microelectronics, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Shanghai 201203, China
- National Integrated Circuit Innovation Center, Shanghai 201203, China
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Wan C, Pei M, Shi K, Cui H, Long H, Qiao L, Xing Q, Wan Q. Toward a Brain-Neuromorphics Interface. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024:e2311288. [PMID: 38339866 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202311288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2023] [Revised: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that enable human-machine interaction have immense potential in restoring or augmenting human capabilities. Traditional BCIs are realized based on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technologies with complex, bulky, and low biocompatible circuits, and suffer with the low energy efficiency of the von Neumann architecture. The brain-neuromorphics interface (BNI) would offer a promising solution to advance the BCI technologies and shape the interactions with machineries. Neuromorphic devices and systems are able to provide substantial computation power with extremely high energy-efficiency by implementing in-materia computing such as in situ vector-matrix multiplication (VMM) and physical reservoir computing. Recent progresses on integrating neuromorphic components with sensing and/or actuating modules, give birth to the neuromorphic afferent nerve, efferent nerve, sensorimotor loop, and so on, which has advanced the technologies for future neurorobotics by achieving sophisticated sensorimotor capabilities as the biological system. With the development on the compact artificial spiking neuron and bioelectronic interfaces, the seamless communication between a BNI and a bioentity is reasonably expectable. In this review, the upcoming BNIs are profiled by introducing the brief history of neuromorphics, reviewing the recent progresses on related areas, and discussing the future advances and challenges that lie ahead.
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- Changjin Wan
- Yongjiang Laboratory (Y-LAB), Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315202, China
- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China
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- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- Yongjiang Laboratory (Y-LAB), Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315202, China
- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China
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Siddique MAB, Zhang Y, An H. Monitoring time domain characteristics of Parkinson's disease using 3D memristive neuromorphic system. Front Comput Neurosci 2023; 17:1274575. [PMID: 38162516 PMCID: PMC10754992 DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2023.1274575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 11/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024] Open
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Introduction Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions of patients. Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation (CL-DBS) is a therapy that can alleviate the symptoms of PD. The CL-DBS system consists of an electrode sending electrical stimulation signals to a specific region of the brain and a battery-powered stimulator implanted in the chest. The electrical stimuli in CL-DBS systems need to be adjusted in real-time in accordance with the state of PD symptoms. Therefore, fast and precise monitoring of PD symptoms is a critical function for CL-DBS systems. However, the current CL-DBS techniques suffer from high computational demands for real-time PD symptom monitoring, which are not feasible for implanted and wearable medical devices. Methods In this paper, we present an energy-efficient neuromorphic PD symptom detector using memristive three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D-ICs). The excessive oscillation at beta frequencies (13-35 Hz) at the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is used as a biomarker of PD symptoms. Results Simulation results demonstrate that our neuromorphic PD detector, implemented with an 8-layer spiking Long Short-Term Memory (S-LSTM), excels in recognizing PD symptoms, achieving a training accuracy of 99.74% and a validation accuracy of 99.52% for a 75%-25% data split. Furthermore, we evaluated the improvement of our neuromorphic CL-DBS detector using NeuroSIM. The chip area, latency, energy, and power consumption of our CL-DBS detector were reduced by 47.4%, 66.63%, 65.6%, and 67.5%, respectively, for monolithic 3D-ICs. Similarly, for heterogeneous 3D-ICs, employing memristive synapses to replace traditional Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) resulted in reductions of 44.8%, 64.75%, 65.28%, and 67.7% in chip area, latency, and power usage. Discussion This study introduces a novel approach for PD symptom evaluation by directly utilizing spiking signals from neural activities in the time domain. This method significantly reduces the time and energy required for signal conversion compared to traditional frequency domain approaches. The study pioneers the use of neuromorphic computing and memristors in designing CL-DBS systems, surpassing SRAM-based designs in chip design area, latency, and energy efficiency. Lastly, the proposed neuromorphic PD detector demonstrates high resilience to timing variations in brain neural signals, as confirmed by robustness analysis.
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- Md Abu Bakr Siddique
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
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Xu M, Chen X, Guo Y, Wang Y, Qiu D, Du X, Cui Y, Wang X, Xiong J. Reconfigurable Neuromorphic Computing: Materials, Devices, and Integration. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2301063. [PMID: 37285592 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202301063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2023] [Revised: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Neuromorphic computing has been attracting ever-increasing attention due to superior energy efficiency, with great promise to promote the next wave of artificial general intelligence in the post-Moore era. Current approaches are, however, broadly designed for stationary and unitary assignments, thus encountering reluctant interconnections, power consumption, and data-intensive computing in that domain. Reconfigurable neuromorphic computing, an on-demand paradigm inspired by the inherent programmability of brain, can maximally reallocate finite resources to perform the proliferation of reproducibly brain-inspired functions, highlighting a disruptive framework for bridging the gap between different primitives. Although relevant research has flourished in diverse materials and devices with novel mechanisms and architectures, a precise overview remains blank and urgently desirable. Herein, the recent strides along this pursuit are systematically reviewed from material, device, and integration perspectives. At the material and device level, one comprehensively conclude the dominant mechanisms for reconfigurability, categorized into ion migration, carrier migration, phase transition, spintronics, and photonics. Integration-level developments for reconfigurable neuromorphic computing are also exhibited. Finally, a perspective on the future challenges for reconfigurable neuromorphic computing is discussed, definitely expanding its horizon for scientific communities.
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- Minyi Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices, School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices, School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices, School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices, School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices, School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices, School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices, School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices, School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices, School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China
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Ma G, Yan R, Tang H. Exploiting noise as a resource for computation and learning in spiking neural networks. PATTERNS (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2023; 4:100831. [PMID: 37876899 PMCID: PMC10591140 DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2023.100831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Revised: 07/06/2023] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/26/2023]
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Networks of spiking neurons underpin the extraordinary information-processing capabilities of the brain and have become pillar models in neuromorphic artificial intelligence. Despite extensive research on spiking neural networks (SNNs), most studies are established on deterministic models, overlooking the inherent non-deterministic, noisy nature of neural computations. This study introduces the noisy SNN (NSNN) and the noise-driven learning (NDL) rule by incorporating noisy neuronal dynamics to exploit the computational advantages of noisy neural processing. The NSNN provides a theoretical framework that yields scalable, flexible, and reliable computation and learning. We demonstrate that this framework leads to spiking neural models with competitive performance, improved robustness against challenging perturbations compared with deterministic SNNs, and better reproducing probabilistic computation in neural coding. Generally, this study offers a powerful and easy-to-use tool for machine learning, neuromorphic intelligence practitioners, and computational neuroscience researchers.
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- Gehua Ma
- College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PRC
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- College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, PRC
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- College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PRC
- State Key Lab of Brain-Machine Intelligence, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PRC
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Han J, Lee J, Kim Y, Kim YB, Yun S, Lee S, Yu J, Lee KJ, Myung H, Choi Y. 3D Neuromorphic Hardware with Single Thin-Film Transistor Synapses Over Single Thin-Body Transistor Neurons by Monolithic Vertical Integration. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2023; 10:e2302380. [PMID: 37712147 PMCID: PMC10602577 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202302380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023]
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Neuromorphic hardware with a spiking neural network (SNN) can significantly enhance the energy efficiency for artificial intelligence (AI) functions owing to its event-driven and spatiotemporally sparse operations. However, an artificial neuron and synapse based on complex complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) circuits limit the scalability and energy efficiency of neuromorphic hardware. In this work, a neuromorphic module is demonstrated composed of synapses over neurons realized by monolithic vertical integration. The synapse at top is a single thin-film transistor (1TFT-synapse) made of poly-crystalline silicon film and the neuron at bottom is another single transistor (1T-neuron) made of single-crystalline silicon. Excimer laser annealing (ELA) is applied to activate dopants for the 1TFT-synapse at the top and rapid thermal annealing (RTA) is applied to do so for the 1T-neuron at the bottom. Internal electro-thermal annealing (ETA) via the generation of Joule heat is also used to enhance the endurance of the 1TFT-synapse without transferring heat to the 1T-neuron at the bottom. As neuromorphic vision sensing, classification of American Sign Language (ASL) is conducted with the fabricated neuromorphic module. Its classification accuracy on ASL is ≈92.3% even after 204 800 update pulses.
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- Joon‐Kyu Han
- School of Electrical EngineeringKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)291 Daehak‐ro, Yuseong‐guDaejeon34141Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical EngineeringKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)291 Daehak‐ro, Yuseong‐guDaejeon34141Republic of Korea
- SK Hynix Inc.Icheon17336Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical EngineeringKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)291 Daehak‐ro, Yuseong‐guDaejeon34141Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)291 Daehak‐ro, Yuseong‐guDaejeon34141Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical EngineeringKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)291 Daehak‐ro, Yuseong‐guDaejeon34141Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical EngineeringKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)291 Daehak‐ro, Yuseong‐guDaejeon34141Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical EngineeringKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)291 Daehak‐ro, Yuseong‐guDaejeon34141Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)291 Daehak‐ro, Yuseong‐guDaejeon34141Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical EngineeringKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)291 Daehak‐ro, Yuseong‐guDaejeon34141Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical EngineeringKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)291 Daehak‐ro, Yuseong‐guDaejeon34141Republic of Korea
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Park TJ, Deng S, Manna S, Islam ANMN, Yu H, Yuan Y, Fong DD, Chubykin AA, Sengupta A, Sankaranarayanan SKRS, Ramanathan S. Complex Oxides for Brain-Inspired Computing: A Review. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2203352. [PMID: 35723973 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202203352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2022] [Revised: 06/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The fields of brain-inspired computing, robotics, and, more broadly, artificial intelligence (AI) seek to implement knowledge gleaned from the natural world into human-designed electronics and machines. In this review, the opportunities presented by complex oxides, a class of electronic ceramic materials whose properties can be elegantly tuned by doping, electron interactions, and a variety of external stimuli near room temperature, are discussed. The review begins with a discussion of natural intelligence at the elementary level in the nervous system, followed by collective intelligence and learning at the animal colony level mediated by social interactions. An important aspect highlighted is the vast spatial and temporal scales involved in learning and memory. The focus then turns to collective phenomena, such as metal-to-insulator transitions (MITs), ferroelectricity, and related examples, to highlight recent demonstrations of artificial neurons, synapses, and circuits and their learning. First-principles theoretical treatments of the electronic structure, and in situ synchrotron spectroscopy of operating devices are then discussed. The implementation of the experimental characteristics into neural networks and algorithm design is then revewed. Finally, outstanding materials challenges that require a microscopic understanding of the physical mechanisms, which will be essential for advancing the frontiers of neuromorphic computing, are highlighted.
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- Tae Joon Park
- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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Chen S, Zhang T, Tappertzhofen S, Yang Y, Valov I. Electrochemical-Memristor-Based Artificial Neurons and Synapses-Fundamentals, Applications, and Challenges. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2301924. [PMID: 37199224 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202301924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Revised: 04/22/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Artificial neurons and synapses are considered essential for the progress of the future brain-inspired computing, based on beyond von Neumann architectures. Here, a discussion on the common electrochemical fundamentals of biological and artificial cells is provided, focusing on their similarities with the redox-based memristive devices. The driving forces behind the functionalities and the ways to control them by an electrochemical-materials approach are presented. Factors such as the chemical symmetry of the electrodes, doping of the solid electrolyte, concentration gradients, and excess surface energy are discussed as essential to understand, predict, and design artificial neurons and synapses. A variety of two- and three-terminal memristive devices and memristive architectures are presented and their application for solving various problems is shown. The work provides an overview of the current understandings on the complex processes of neural signal generation and transmission in both biological and artificial cells and presents the state-of-the-art applications, including signal transmission between biological and artificial cells. This example is showcasing the possibility for creating bioelectronic interfaces and integrating artificial circuits in biological systems. Prospectives and challenges of the modern technology toward low-power, high-information-density circuits are highlighted.
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- Shaochuan Chen
- Institute of Materials in Electrical Engineering 2 (IWE2), RWTH Aachen University, Sommerfeldstraße 24, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Microelectronic Devices and Circuits (MOE), School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Chair for Micro- and Nanoelectronics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TU Dortmund University, Martin-Schmeisser-Weg 4-6, D-44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Microelectronic Devices and Circuits (MOE), School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
- School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Peking University, Shenzhen, 518055, China
- Center for Brain Inspired Intelligence, Chinese Institute for Brain Research (CIBR), Beijing, 102206, China
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- Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI-7), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52425, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems "Acad. E. Budewski", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev 10, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Park J, Ha S, Yu T, Neftci E, Cauwenberghs G. A 22-pJ/spike 73-Mspikes/s 130k-compartment neural array transceiver with conductance-based synaptic and membrane dynamics. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1198306. [PMID: 37700751 PMCID: PMC10493285 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1198306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/14/2023] Open
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Neuromorphic cognitive computing offers a bio-inspired means to approach the natural intelligence of biological neural systems in silicon integrated circuits. Typically, such circuits either reproduce biophysical neuronal dynamics in great detail as tools for computational neuroscience, or abstract away the biology by simplifying the functional forms of neural computation in large-scale systems for machine intelligence with high integration density and energy efficiency. Here we report a hybrid which offers biophysical realism in the emulation of multi-compartmental neuronal network dynamics at very large scale with high implementation efficiency, and yet with high flexibility in configuring the functional form and the network topology. The integrate-and-fire array transceiver (IFAT) chip emulates the continuous-time analog membrane dynamics of 65 k two-compartment neurons with conductance-based synapses. Fired action potentials are registered as address-event encoded output spikes, while the four types of synapses coupling to each neuron are activated by address-event decoded input spikes for fully reconfigurable synaptic connectivity, facilitating virtual wiring as implemented by routing address-event spikes externally through synaptic routing table. Peak conductance strength of synapse activation specified by the address-event input spans three decades of dynamic range, digitally controlled by pulse width and amplitude modulation (PWAM) of the drive voltage activating the log-domain linear synapse circuit. Two nested levels of micro-pipelining in the IFAT architecture improve both throughput and efficiency of synaptic input. This two-tier micro-pipelining results in a measured sustained peak throughput of 73 Mspikes/s and overall chip-level energy efficiency of 22 pJ/spike. Non-uniformity in digitally encoded synapse strength due to analog mismatch is mitigated through single-point digital offset calibration. Combined with the flexibly layered and recurrent synaptic connectivity provided by hierarchical address-event routing of registered spike events through external memory, the IFAT lends itself to efficient large-scale emulation of general biophysical spiking neural networks, as well as rate-based mapping of rectified linear unit (ReLU) neural activations.
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- Jongkil Park
- Center for Neuromorphic Engineering, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
- Department of Bioengineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
- Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich, RWTH, Aachen, Germany
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- Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
- Department of Bioengineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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Aboumerhi K, Güemes A, Liu H, Tenore F, Etienne-Cummings R. Neuromorphic applications in medicine. J Neural Eng 2023; 20:041004. [PMID: 37531951 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/aceca3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/04/2023]
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In recent years, there has been a growing demand for miniaturization, low power consumption, quick treatments, and non-invasive clinical strategies in the healthcare industry. To meet these demands, healthcare professionals are seeking new technological paradigms that can improve diagnostic accuracy while ensuring patient compliance. Neuromorphic engineering, which uses neural models in hardware and software to replicate brain-like behaviors, can help usher in a new era of medicine by delivering low power, low latency, small footprint, and high bandwidth solutions. This paper provides an overview of recent neuromorphic advancements in medicine, including medical imaging and cancer diagnosis, processing of biosignals for diagnosis, and biomedical interfaces, such as motor, cognitive, and perception prostheses. For each section, we provide examples of how brain-inspired models can successfully compete with conventional artificial intelligence algorithms, demonstrating the potential of neuromorphic engineering to meet demands and improve patient outcomes. Lastly, we discuss current struggles in fitting neuromorphic hardware with non-neuromorphic technologies and propose potential solutions for future bottlenecks in hardware compatibility.
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- Khaled Aboumerhi
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, 9 JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0FA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Research and Exploratory Development Department, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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Gong B, Wang J, Lu M, Meng G, Sun K, Chang S, Zhang Z, Wei X. BrainS: Customized multi-core embedded multiple scale neuromorphic system. Neural Netw 2023; 165:381-392. [PMID: 37329782 DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2023.05.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Revised: 05/07/2023] [Accepted: 05/21/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Research on modeling and mechanisms of the brain remains the most urgent and challenging task. The customized embedded neuromorphic system is one of the most effective approaches for multi-scale simulations ranging from ion channel to network. This paper proposes BrainS, a scalable multi-core embedded neuromorphic system capable of accommodating massive and large-scale simulations. It is designed with rich external extension interfaces to support various types of input/output and communication requirements. The 3D mesh-based topology with an efficient memory access mechanism makes exploring the properties of neuronal networks possible. BrainS operates at 168 MHz and contains a model database ranging from ion channel to network scale within the Fundamental Computing Unit (FCU). At the ion channel scale, the Basic Community Unit (BCU) can perform real-time simulations of a Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) neuron with 16000 ion channels, using 125.54 KB of the SRAM. When the number of ion channels is within 64000, the HH neuron is simulated in real-time by 4 BCUs. At the network scale, the basal ganglia-thalamus (BG-TH) network consisting of 3200 Izhikevich neurons, providing a vital motor regulation function, is simulated in 4 BCUs with a power consumption of 364.8 mW. Overall, BrainS has an excellent performance in real-time and flexible configurability, providing an embedded application solution for multi-scale simulation.
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- Bo Gong
- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.
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- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Information Technology Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin, 300222, China
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- Beijing Aerospace Automatic Control Institute, Beijing, 100854, China
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- Beijing Aerospace Automatic Control Institute, Beijing, 100854, China
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- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.
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Gautam A, Kohno T. Adaptive STDP-based on-chip spike pattern detection. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1203956. [PMID: 37521704 PMCID: PMC10374023 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1203956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 06/15/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023] Open
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A spiking neural network (SNN) is a bottom-up tool used to describe information processing in brain microcircuits. It is becoming a crucial neuromorphic computational model. Spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) is an unsupervised brain-like learning rule implemented in many SNNs and neuromorphic chips. However, a significant performance gap exists between ideal model simulation and neuromorphic implementation. The performance of STDP learning in neuromorphic chips deteriorates because the resolution of synaptic efficacy in such chips is generally restricted to 6 bits or less, whereas simulations employ the entire 64-bit floating-point precision available on digital computers. Previously, we introduced a bio-inspired learning rule named adaptive STDP and demonstrated via numerical simulation that adaptive STDP (using only 4-bit fixed-point synaptic efficacy) performs similarly to STDP learning (using 64-bit floating-point precision) in a noisy spike pattern detection model. Herein, we present the experimental results demonstrating the performance of adaptive STDP learning. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that demonstrates unsupervised noisy spatiotemporal spike pattern detection to perform well and maintain the simulation performance on a mixed-signal CMOS neuromorphic chip with low-resolution synaptic efficacy. The chip was designed in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) 250 nm CMOS technology node and comprises a soma circuit and 256 synapse circuits along with their learning circuitry.
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Nanami T, Kohno T. Piecewise quadratic neuron model: A tool for close-to-biology spiking neuronal network simulation on dedicated hardware. Front Neurosci 2023; 16:1069133. [PMID: 36699524 PMCID: PMC9870328 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.1069133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2022] [Accepted: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Spiking neuron models simulate neuronal activities and allow us to analyze and reproduce the information processing of the nervous system. However, ionic-conductance models, which can faithfully reproduce neuronal activities, require a huge computational cost, while integral-firing models, which are computationally inexpensive, have some difficulties in reproducing neuronal activities. Here we propose a Piecewise Quadratic Neuron (PQN) model based on a qualitative modeling approach that aims to reproduce only the key dynamics behind neuronal activities. We demonstrate that PQN models can accurately reproduce the responses of ionic-conductance models of major neuronal classes to stimulus inputs of various magnitudes. In addition, the PQN model is designed to support the efficient implementation on digital arithmetic circuits for use as silicon neurons, and we confirm that the PQN model consumes much fewer circuit resources than the ionic-conductance models. This model intends to serve as a tool for building a large-scale closer-to-biology spiking neural network.
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- Takuya Nanami
- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Sakemi Y, Morino K, Morie T, Aihara K. A Supervised Learning Algorithm for Multilayer Spiking Neural Networks Based on Temporal Coding Toward Energy-Efficient VLSI Processor Design. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS 2023; 34:394-408. [PMID: 34280109 DOI: 10.1109/tnnls.2021.3095068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired mathematical models with the ability to process information in the form of spikes. SNNs are expected to provide not only new machine-learning algorithms but also energy-efficient computational models when implemented in very-large-scale integration (VLSI) circuits. In this article, we propose a novel supervised learning algorithm for SNNs based on temporal coding. A spiking neuron in this algorithm is designed to facilitate analog VLSI implementations with analog resistive memory, by which ultrahigh energy efficiency can be achieved. We also propose several techniques to improve the performance on recognition tasks and show that the classification accuracy of the proposed algorithm is as high as that of the state-of-the-art temporal coding SNN algorithms on the MNIST and Fashion-MNIST datasets. Finally, we discuss the robustness of the proposed SNNs against variations that arise from the device manufacturing process and are unavoidable in analog VLSI implementation. We also propose a technique to suppress the effects of variations in the manufacturing process on the recognition performance.
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Amiri M, Jafari AH, Makkiabadi B, Nazari S. A Novel Unsupervised Spatial–Temporal Learning Mechanism in a Bio-inspired Spiking Neural Network. Cognit Comput 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s12559-022-10097-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Zhou Y, Wang Y, Zhuge F, Guo J, Ma S, Wang J, Tang Z, Li Y, Miao X, He Y, Chai Y. A Reconfigurable Two-WSe 2 -Transistor Synaptic Cell for Reinforcement Learning. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2022; 34:e2107754. [PMID: 35104378 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202107754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2021] [Revised: 01/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Reward-modulated spike-timing-dependent plasticity (R-STDP) is a brain-inspired reinforcement learning (RL) rule, exhibiting potential for decision-making tasks and artificial general intelligence. However, the hardware implementation of the reward-modulation process in R-STDP usually requires complicated Si complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) circuit design that causes high power consumption and large footprint. Here, a design with two synaptic transistors (2T) connected in a parallel structure is experimentally demonstrated. The 2T unit based on WSe2 ferroelectric transistors exhibits reconfigurable polarity behavior, where one channel can be tuned as n-type and the other as p-type due to nonvolatile ferroelectric polarization. In this way, opposite synaptic weight update behaviors with multilevel (>6 bit) conductance states, ultralow nonlinearity (0.56/-1.23), and large Gmax /Gmin ratio of 30 are realized. By applying positive/negative reward to (anti-)STDP component of 2T cell, R-STDP learning rules are realized for training the spiking neural network and demonstrated to solve the classical cart-pole problem, exhibiting a way for realizing low-power (32 pJ per forward process) and highly area-efficient (100 µm2 ) hardware chip for reinforcement learning.
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- Yue Zhou
- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Integrated Circuits, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430000, China
- Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Integrated Circuits, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430000, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430000, China
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- Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- Frontier Institute of Chip and System, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Integrated Circuits, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430000, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Integrated Circuits, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430000, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Integrated Circuits, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430000, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Integrated Circuits, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430000, China
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- Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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Yang S, Wang J, Deng B, Azghadi MR, Linares-Barranco B. Neuromorphic Context-Dependent Learning Framework With Fault-Tolerant Spike Routing. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS 2022; 33:7126-7140. [PMID: 34115596 DOI: 10.1109/tnnls.2021.3084250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Neuromorphic computing is a promising technology that realizes computation based on event-based spiking neural networks (SNNs). However, fault-tolerant on-chip learning remains a challenge in neuromorphic systems. This study presents the first scalable neuromorphic fault-tolerant context-dependent learning (FCL) hardware framework. We show how this system can learn associations between stimulation and response in two context-dependent learning tasks from experimental neuroscience, despite possible faults in the hardware nodes. Furthermore, we demonstrate how our novel fault-tolerant neuromorphic spike routing scheme can avoid multiple fault nodes successfully and can enhance the maximum throughput of the neuromorphic network by 0.9%-16.1% in comparison with previous studies. By utilizing the real-time computational capabilities and multiple-fault-tolerant property of the proposed system, the neuronal mechanisms underlying the spiking activities of neuromorphic networks can be readily explored. In addition, the proposed system can be applied in real-time learning and decision-making applications, brain-machine integration, and the investigation of brain cognition during learning.
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Recognizing intertwined patterns using a network of spiking pattern recognition platforms. Sci Rep 2022; 12:19436. [PMID: 36376426 PMCID: PMC9663434 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-23320-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Artificial intelligence computing adapted from biology is a suitable platform for the development of intelligent machines by imitating the functional mechanisms of the nervous system in creating high-level activities such as learning, decision making and cognition in today's systems. Here, the concentration is on improvement the cognitive potential of artificial intelligence network with a bio-inspired structure. In this regard, four spiking pattern recognition platforms for recognizing digits and letters of EMNIST, patterns of YALE, and ORL datasets are proposed. All networks are developed based on a similar structure in the input image coding, model of neurons (pyramidal neurons and interneurons) and synapses (excitatory AMPA and inhibitory GABA currents), and learning procedure. Networks 1-4 are trained on Digits, Letters, faces of YALE and ORL, respectively, with the proposed un-supervised, spatial-temporal, and sparse spike-based learning mechanism based on the biological observation of the brain learning. When the networks have reached the highest recognition accuracy in the relevant patterns, the main goal of the article, which is to achieve high-performance pattern recognition system with higher cognitive ability, is followed. The pattern recognition network that is able to detect the combination of multiple patterns which called intertwined patterns has not been discussed yet. Therefore, by integrating four trained spiking pattern recognition platforms in one system configuration, we are able to recognize intertwined patterns. These results are presented for the first time and could be the pioneer of a new generation of pattern recognition networks with a significant ability in smart machines.
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LaCERA: Layer-Centric Event-Routing Architecture. Neurocomputing 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2022.11.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Lee T, Jeon SB, Kim D. A Vertical Single Transistor Neuron with Core-Shell Dual-Gate for Excitatory-Inhibitory Function and Tunable Firing Threshold Voltage. MICROMACHINES 2022; 13:1740. [PMID: 36296091 PMCID: PMC9609599 DOI: 10.3390/mi13101740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Revised: 10/10/2022] [Accepted: 10/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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A novel inhibitable and firing threshold voltage tunable vertical nanowire (NW) single transistor neuron device with core-shell dual-gate (CSDG) was realized and verified by TCAD simulation. The CSDG NW neuron is enclosed by an independently accessed shell gate and core gate to serve an excitatory-inhibitory transition and a firing threshold voltage adjustment, respectively. By utilizing the shell gate, the firing of specific neuron can be inhibited for winner-takes-all learning. It was confirmed that the independently accessed core gate can be used for adjustment of the firing threshold voltage to compensate random conductance variation before the learning and to fix inference error caused by unwanted synapse conductance change after the learning. This threshold voltage tuning can also be utilized for homeostatic function during the learning process. Furthermore, a myelination function which controls the transmission rate was obtained based on the inherent asymmetry between the source and drain in vertical NW structure. Finally, using the CSDG NW neuron device, a letter recognition test was conducted by SPICE simulation for a system-level validation. This multi-functional neuron device can contribute to construct a high-density monolithic SNN hardware combining with the previously developed vertical synapse MOSFET devices.
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- Taegoon Lee
- Department of Electronic Engineering, Kyung Hee University, 1732 Deogyeong-daero, Giheung-gu, Yongin 17104, Korea
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Hanbat National University, 125 Dongseo-daero, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34158, Korea
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Kyung Hee University, 1732 Deogyeong-daero, Giheung-gu, Yongin 17104, Korea
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Payvand M, Moro F, Nomura K, Dalgaty T, Vianello E, Nishi Y, Indiveri G. Self-organization of an inhomogeneous memristive hardware for sequence learning. Nat Commun 2022; 13:5793. [PMID: 36184665 PMCID: PMC9527242 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33476-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 09/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Learning is a fundamental component of creating intelligent machines. Biological intelligence orchestrates synaptic and neuronal learning at multiple time scales to self-organize populations of neurons for solving complex tasks. Inspired by this, we design and experimentally demonstrate an adaptive hardware architecture Memristive Self-organizing Spiking Recurrent Neural Network (MEMSORN). MEMSORN incorporates resistive memory (RRAM) in its synapses and neurons which configure their state based on Hebbian and Homeostatic plasticity respectively. For the first time, we derive these plasticity rules directly from the statistical measurements of our fabricated RRAM-based neurons and synapses. These "technologically plausible” learning rules exploit the intrinsic variability of the devices and improve the accuracy of the network on a sequence learning task by 30%. Finally, we compare the performance of MEMSORN to a fully-randomly-set-up spiking recurrent network on the same task, showing that self-organization improves the accuracy by more than 15%. This work demonstrates the importance of the device-circuit-algorithm co-design approach for implementing brain-inspired computing hardware. One gap between the neuro-inspired computing and its applications lies in the intrinsic variability of the devices. Here, Payvand et al. suggest a technologically plausible co-design of the hardware architecture which takes into account and exploits the physics behind memristors.
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- Melika Payvand
- Institute for Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Institute for Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA, Leti, F-38000, Grenoble, France
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- Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA, Leti, F-38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA, Leti, F-38000, Grenoble, France
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- Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan
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- Institute for Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Wang H, He Z, Wang T, He J, Zhou X, Wang Y, Liu L, Wu N, Tian M, Shi C. TripleBrain: A Compact Neuromorphic Hardware Core With Fast On-Chip Self-Organizing and Reinforcement Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 2022; 16:636-650. [PMID: 35802542 DOI: 10.1109/tbcas.2022.3189240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Human brain cortex acts as a rich inspiration source for constructing efficient artificial cognitive systems. In this paper, we investigate to incorporate multiple brain-inspired computing paradigms for compact, fast and high-accuracy neuromorphic hardware implementation. We propose the TripleBrain hardware core that tightly combines three common brain-inspired factors: the spike-based processing and plasticity, the self-organizing map (SOM) mechanism and the reinforcement learning scheme, to improve object recognition accuracy and processing throughput, while keeping low resource costs. The proposed hardware core is fully event-driven to mitigate unnecessary operations, and enables various on-chip learning rules (including the proposed SOM-STDP & R-STDP rule and the R-SOM-STDP rule regarded as the two variants of our TripleBrain learning rule) with different accuracy-latency tradeoffs to satisfy user requirements. An FPGA prototype of the neuromorphic core was implemented and elaborately tested. It realized high-speed learning (1349 frame/s) and inference (2698 frame/s), and obtained comparably high recognition accuracies of 95.10%, 80.89%, 100%, 94.94%, 82.32%, 100% and 97.93% on the MNIST, ETH-80, ORL-10, Yale-10, N-MNIST, Poker-DVS and Posture-DVS datasets, respectively, while only consuming 4146 (7.59%) slices, 32 (3.56%) DSPs and 131 (24.04%) Block RAMs on a Xilinx Zynq-7045 FPGA chip. Our neuromorphic core is very attractive for real-time resource-limited edge intelligent systems.
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Ahmadi-Farsani J, Ricci S, Hashemkhani S, Ielmini D, Linares-Barranco B, Serrano-Gotarredona T. A CMOS-memristor hybrid system for implementing stochastic binary spike timing-dependent plasticity. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2022; 380:20210018. [PMID: 35658675 PMCID: PMC9168445 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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This paper describes a fully experimental hybrid system in which a [Formula: see text] memristive crossbar spiking neural network (SNN) was assembled using custom high-resistance state memristors with analogue CMOS neurons fabricated in 180 nm CMOS technology. The custom memristors used NMOS selector transistors, made available on a second 180 nm CMOS chip. One drawback is that memristors operate with currents in the micro-amperes range, while analogue CMOS neurons may need to operate with currents in the pico-amperes range. One possible solution was to use a compact circuit to scale the memristor-domain currents down to the analogue CMOS neuron domain currents by at least 5-6 orders of magnitude. Here, we proposed using an on-chip compact current splitter circuit based on MOS ladders to aggressively attenuate the currents by over 5 orders of magnitude. This circuit was added before each neuron. This paper describes the proper experimental operation of an SNN circuit using a [Formula: see text] 1T1R synaptic crossbar together with four post-synaptic CMOS circuits, each with a 5-decade current attenuator and an integrate-and-fire neuron. It also demonstrates one-shot winner-takes-all training and stochastic binary spike-timing-dependent-plasticity learning using this small system. This article is part of the theme issue 'Advanced neurotechnologies: translating innovation for health and well-being'.
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- Javad Ahmadi-Farsani
- Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, IMSE-CNM (CSIC and Universidad de Sevilla), Av. Américo Vespucio 28, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, IMSE-CNM (CSIC and Universidad de Sevilla), Av. Américo Vespucio 28, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
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- Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, IMSE-CNM (CSIC and Universidad de Sevilla), Av. Américo Vespucio 28, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
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Udaya Mohanan K, Cho S, Park BG. Optimization of the structural complexity of artificial neural network for hardware-driven neuromorphic computing application. APPL INTELL 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10489-022-03783-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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AbstractThis work focuses on the optimization of the structural complexity of a single-layer feedforward neural network (SLFN) for neuromorphic hardware implementation. The singular value decomposition (SVD) method is used for the determination of the effective number of neurons in the hidden layer for Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (MNIST) dataset classification. The proposed method is also verified on a SLFN using weights derived from a synaptic transistor device. The effectiveness of this methodology in estimating the reduced number of neurons in the hidden layer makes this method highly useful in optimizing complex neural network architectures for their hardware realization.
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Yang S, Wang J, Hao X, Li H, Wei X, Deng B, Loparo KA. BiCoSS: Toward Large-Scale Cognition Brain With Multigranular Neuromorphic Architecture. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS 2022; 33:2801-2815. [PMID: 33428574 DOI: 10.1109/tnnls.2020.3045492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The further exploration of the neural mechanisms underlying the biological activities of the human brain depends on the development of large-scale spiking neural networks (SNNs) with different categories at different levels, as well as the corresponding computing platforms. Neuromorphic engineering provides approaches to high-performance biologically plausible computational paradigms inspired by neural systems. In this article, we present a biological-inspired cognitive supercomputing system (BiCoSS) that integrates multiple granules (GRs) of SNNs to realize a hybrid compatible neuromorphic platform. A scalable hierarchical heterogeneous multicore architecture is presented, and a synergistic routing scheme for hybrid neural information is proposed. The BiCoSS system can accommodate different levels of GRs and biological plausibility of SNN models in an efficient and scalable manner. Over four million neurons can be realized on BiCoSS with a power efficiency of 2.8k larger than the GPU platform, and the average latency of BiCoSS is 3.62 and 2.49 times higher than conventional architectures of digital neuromorphic systems. For the verification, BiCoSS is used to replicate various biological cognitive activities, including motor learning, action selection, context-dependent learning, and movement disorders. Comprehensively considering the programmability, biological plausibility, learning capability, computational power, and scalability, BiCoSS is shown to outperform the alternative state-of-the-art works for large-scale SNN, while its real-time computational capability enables a wide range of potential applications.
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Sandamirskaya Y, Kaboli M, Conradt J, Celikel T. Neuromorphic computing hardware and neural architectures for robotics. Sci Robot 2022; 7:eabl8419. [PMID: 35767646 DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abl8419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Neuromorphic hardware enables fast and power-efficient neural network-based artificial intelligence that is well suited to solving robotic tasks. Neuromorphic algorithms can be further developed following neural computing principles and neural network architectures inspired by biological neural systems. In this Viewpoint, we provide an overview of recent insights from neuroscience that could enhance signal processing in artificial neural networks on chip and unlock innovative applications in robotics and autonomous intelligent systems. These insights uncover computing principles, primitives, and algorithms on different levels of abstraction and call for more research into the basis of neural computation and neuronally inspired computing hardware.
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- BMW Group, Department of Research, New Technologies and Innovation, Munich, Germany.,Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stockholm, Sweden
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Huang CH, Zhang Y, Nomura K. Reconfigurable Artificial Synapses with Excitatory and Inhibitory Response Enabled by an Ambipolar Oxide Thin-Film Transistor. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:22252-22262. [PMID: 35522905 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c24327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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A gate-tunable synaptic device controlling dynamically reconfigurable excitatory and inhibitory synaptic responses, which can emulate the fundamental synaptic responses for developing diverse functionalities of the biological nervous system, was developed using ambipolar oxide semiconductor thin-film transistors (TFTs). Since the balanced ambipolarity is significant, a boron-incorporated SnO (SnO:B) oxide semiconductor channel was newly developed to improve the ambipolar charge transports by reducing the subgap defect density, which was reduced to less than 1017 cm-3. The ambipolar SnO:B-TFT could be fabricated with a good reproductivity at the maximum process temperature of 250 °C and exhibited good TFT performances, such as a nearly zero switching voltage, the saturation mobility of ∼1.3 cm2 V-1 s-1, s-value of ∼1.1 V decade-1, and an on/off-current ratio of ∼8 × 103 for the p-channel mode, while ∼0.14 cm2 V-1 s-1, ∼2.2 V decade-1and ∼1 × 103 for n-channel modes, respectively. The ambipolar device imitated potentiation/depression behaviors in both excitatory and inhibitory synaptic responses by using the p- and n-channel transports by tuning a gate bias. The low-power consumptions of <20 and <2 nJ per pulse for the excitatory and inhibitory operations, respectively, were also achieved. The presented device operated under an ambient atmosphere and confirmed a good operation reliability over 5000 pulses and a long-term air environmental stability. The study presents the high potential of an ambipolar oxide-TFT-based synaptic device with a good manufacturability to develop emerging neuromorphic perception and computing hardware for next-generation artificial intelligence systems.
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- Chi-Hsin Huang
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
- Material Science and Engineering Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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Superconducting Bio-Inspired Au-Nanowire-Based Neurons. NANOMATERIALS 2022; 12:nano12101671. [PMID: 35630895 PMCID: PMC9147065 DOI: 10.3390/nano12101671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Revised: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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High-performance modeling of neurophysiological processes is an urgent task that requires new approaches to information processing. In this context, two- and three-junction superconducting quantum interferometers with Josephson weak links based on gold nanowires are fabricated and investigated experimentally. The studied cells are proposed for the implementation of bio-inspired neurons—high-performance, energy-efficient, and compact elements of neuromorphic processor. The operation modes of an advanced artificial neuron capable of generating the burst firing activation patterns are explored theoretically. A comparison with the Izhikevich mathematical model of biological neurons is carried out.
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Yang S, Linares-Barranco B, Chen B. Heterogeneous Ensemble-Based Spike-Driven Few-Shot Online Learning. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:850932. [PMID: 35615277 PMCID: PMC9124799 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.850932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are regarded as a promising candidate to deal with the major challenges of current machine learning techniques, including the high energy consumption induced by deep neural networks. However, there is still a great gap between SNNs and the few-shot learning performance of artificial neural networks. Importantly, existing spike-based few-shot learning models do not target robust learning based on spatiotemporal dynamics and superior machine learning theory. In this paper, we propose a novel spike-based framework with the entropy theory, namely, heterogeneous ensemble-based spike-driven few-shot online learning (HESFOL). The proposed HESFOL model uses the entropy theory to establish the gradient-based few-shot learning scheme in a recurrent SNN architecture. We examine the performance of the HESFOL model based on the few-shot classification tasks using spiking patterns and the Omniglot data set, as well as the few-shot motor control task using an end-effector. Experimental results show that the proposed HESFOL scheme can effectively improve the accuracy and robustness of spike-driven few-shot learning performance. More importantly, the proposed HESFOL model emphasizes the application of modern entropy-based machine learning methods in state-of-the-art spike-driven learning algorithms. Therefore, our study provides new perspectives for further integration of advanced entropy theory in machine learning to improve the learning performance of SNNs, which could be of great merit to applied developments with spike-based neuromorphic systems.
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- Shuangming Yang
- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
- *Correspondence: Shuangming Yang,
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- Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
- Badong Chen,
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New computing technologies inspired by the brain promise fundamentally different ways to process information with extreme energy efficiency and the ability to handle the avalanche of unstructured and noisy data that we are generating at an ever-increasing rate. To realize this promise requires a brave and coordinated plan to bring together disparate research communities and to provide them with the funding, focus and support needed. We have done this in the past with digital technologies; we are in the process of doing it with quantum technologies; can we now do it for brain-inspired computing?
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Vogginger B, Kreutz F, López-Randulfe J, Liu C, Dietrich R, Gonzalez HA, Scholz D, Reeb N, Auge D, Hille J, Arsalan M, Mirus F, Grassmann C, Knoll A, Mayr C. Automotive Radar Processing With Spiking Neural Networks: Concepts and Challenges. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:851774. [PMID: 35431782 PMCID: PMC9012531 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.851774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 03/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Frequency-modulated continuous wave radar sensors play an essential role for assisted and autonomous driving as they are robust under all weather and light conditions. However, the rising number of transmitters and receivers for obtaining a higher angular resolution increases the cost for digital signal processing. One promising approach for energy-efficient signal processing is the usage of brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) implemented on neuromorphic hardware. In this article we perform a step-by-step analysis of automotive radar processing and argue how spiking neural networks could replace or complement the conventional processing. We provide SNN examples for two processing steps and evaluate their accuracy and computational efficiency. For radar target detection, an SNN with temporal coding is competitive to the conventional approach at a low compute overhead. Instead, our SNN for target classification achieves an accuracy close to a reference artificial neural network while requiring 200 times less operations. Finally, we discuss the specific requirements and challenges for SNN-based radar processing on neuromorphic hardware. This study proves the general applicability of SNNs for automotive radar processing and sustains the prospect of energy-efficient realizations in automated vehicles.
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- Bernhard Vogginger
- Chair of Highly-Parallel VLSI-Systems and Neuro-Microelectronics, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute of Principles of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- *Correspondence: Bernhard Vogginger
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- Chair of Highly-Parallel VLSI-Systems and Neuro-Microelectronics, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute of Principles of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Infineon Technologies Dresden GmbH & Co., KG, Dresden, Germany
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- Chair of Highly-Parallel VLSI-Systems and Neuro-Microelectronics, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute of Principles of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Chair of Highly-Parallel VLSI-Systems and Neuro-Microelectronics, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute of Principles of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Chair of Highly-Parallel VLSI-Systems and Neuro-Microelectronics, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute of Principles of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Infineon Technologies Dresden GmbH & Co., KG, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany
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- BMW Group, Research, New Technologies, Garching, Germany
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- Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Chair of Highly-Parallel VLSI-Systems and Neuro-Microelectronics, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute of Principles of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Centre for Tactile Internet (CeTI) With Human-In-The-Loop, Cluster of Excellence, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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Flexible synaptic floating gate devices with dual electrical modulation based on ambipolar black phosphorus. iScience 2022; 25:103947. [PMID: 35281742 PMCID: PMC8904616 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.103947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2021] [Revised: 01/19/2022] [Accepted: 02/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Two-dimensional van der Waals materials offer various possibilities for synaptic devices, matching the requirements of intelligent and energy-efficient computation. However, very few studies on robust flexible synaptic transistors have been reported, which hold great potential for soft robotics and wearable applications. Here a floating gate synaptic device based on ambipolar black phosphorus (BP) on a flexible substrate has been demonstrated with two working modes. The three-terminal mode, where the carriers are injected into the floating gate, shows a nonvolatile memory effect, whereas the two-terminal mode shows a quasi-nonvolatile memory effect. Remarkably, the synaptic device working on the three-terminal mode shows an excellent performance in the energy-efficient computation of sub-fJ/spike with a fast gate voltage response down to ∼10 ns. Furthermore, the flexible synaptic device exhibits good endurance under 5,000 bending cycles with a strain of ∼0.63%, suggesting great potential in flexible neuromorphic applications with low energy consumption. Flexible synaptic transistors based on black phosphorus Dual electrical modulation for charge trapping in floating gate structure Nanosecond-level synaptic response and low power consumption Good endurance against mechanical bending of over thousands of times
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The design of robots that interact autonomously with the environment and exhibit complex behaviours is an open challenge that can benefit from understanding what makes living beings fit to act in the world. Neuromorphic engineering studies neural computational principles to develop technologies that can provide a computing substrate for building compact and low-power processing systems. We discuss why endowing robots with neuromorphic technologies - from perception to motor control - represents a promising approach for the creation of robots which can seamlessly integrate in society. We present initial attempts in this direction, highlight open challenges, and propose actions required to overcome current limitations.
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- Chiara Bartolozzi
- Event-Driven Perception for Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via San Quirico 19D, 16163, Genova, Italy.
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- Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland
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Milde MB, Afshar S, Xu Y, Marcireau A, Joubert D, Ramesh B, Bethi Y, Ralph NO, El Arja S, Dennler N, van Schaik A, Cohen G. Neuromorphic Engineering Needs Closed-Loop Benchmarks. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:813555. [PMID: 35237122 PMCID: PMC8884247 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.813555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Neuromorphic engineering aims to build (autonomous) systems by mimicking biological systems. It is motivated by the observation that biological organisms—from algae to primates—excel in sensing their environment, reacting promptly to their perils and opportunities. Furthermore, they do so more resiliently than our most advanced machines, at a fraction of the power consumption. It follows that the performance of neuromorphic systems should be evaluated in terms of real-time operation, power consumption, and resiliency to real-world perturbations and noise using task-relevant evaluation metrics. Yet, following in the footsteps of conventional machine learning, most neuromorphic benchmarks rely on recorded datasets that foster sensing accuracy as the primary measure for performance. Sensing accuracy is but an arbitrary proxy for the actual system's goal—taking a good decision in a timely manner. Moreover, static datasets hinder our ability to study and compare closed-loop sensing and control strategies that are central to survival for biological organisms. This article makes the case for a renewed focus on closed-loop benchmarks involving real-world tasks. Such benchmarks will be crucial in developing and progressing neuromorphic Intelligence. The shift towards dynamic real-world benchmarking tasks should usher in richer, more resilient, and robust artificially intelligent systems in the future.
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Wei J, Wang Z, Li Y, Lu J, Jiang H, An J, Li Y, Gao L, Zhang X, Shi T, Liu Q. FangTianSim: High-Level Cycle-Accurate Resistive Random-Access Memory-Based Multi-Core Spiking Neural Network Processor Simulator. Front Neurosci 2022; 15:806325. [PMID: 35126046 PMCID: PMC8811373 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.806325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Realization of spiking neural network (SNN) hardware with high energy efficiency and high integration may provide a promising solution to data processing challenges in future internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). Recently, design of multi-core reconfigurable SNN chip based on resistive random-access memory (RRAM) is drawing great attention, owing to the unique properties of RRAM, e.g., high integration density, low power consumption, and processing-in-memory (PIM). Therefore, RRAM-based SNN chip may have further improvements in integration and energy efficiency. The design of such a chip will face the following problems: significant delay in pulse transmission due to complex logic control and inter-core communication; high risk of digital, analog, and RRAM hybrid design; and non-ideal characteristics of analog circuit and RRAM. In order to effectively bridge the gap between device, circuit, algorithm, and architecture, this paper proposes a simulation model—FangTianSim, which covers analog neuron circuit, RRAM model and multi-core architecture and its accuracy is at the clock level. This model can be used to verify the functionalities, delay, and power consumption of SNN chip. This information cannot only be used to verify the rationality of the architecture but also guide the chip design. In order to map different network topologies on the chip, SNN representation format, interpreter, and instruction generator are designed. Finally, the function of FangTianSim is verified on liquid state machine (LSM), fully connected neural network (FCNN), and convolutional neural network (CNN).
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- Jinsong Wei
- Zhejiang Laboratory, Institute of Intelligent Computing, Hangzhou, China
- Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Zhejiang Laboratory, Institute of Intelligent Computing, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang Laboratory, Institute of Intelligent Computing, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang Laboratory, Institute of Intelligent Computing, Hangzhou, China
- School of Microelectronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Zhejiang Laboratory, Institute of Intelligent Computing, Hangzhou, China
- School of Microelectronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- School of Microelectronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Zhejiang Laboratory, Institute of Intelligent Computing, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang Laboratory, Institute of Intelligent Computing, Hangzhou, China
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- Frontier Institute of Chip and System, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Zhejiang Laboratory, Institute of Intelligent Computing, Hangzhou, China
- Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Tuo Shi,
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- Frontier Institute of Chip and System, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Yoo J, Shoaran M. Neural interface systems with on-device computing: machine learning and neuromorphic architectures. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2021; 72:95-101. [PMID: 34735990 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2021.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2021] [Revised: 10/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Development of neural interface and brain-machine interface (BMI) systems enables the treatment of neurological disorders including cognitive, sensory, and motor dysfunctions. While neural interfaces have steadily decreased in form factor, recent developments target pervasive implantables. Along with advances in electrodes, neural recording, and neurostimulation circuits, integration of disease biomarkers and machine learning algorithms enables real-time and on-site processing of neural activity with no need for power-demanding telemetry. This recent trend on combining artificial intelligence and machine learning with modern neural interfaces will lead to a new generation of low-power, smart, and miniaturized therapeutic devices for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders. This paper reviews the recent development of the 'on-chip' machine learning and neuromorphic architectures, which is one of the key puzzles in devising next-generation clinically viable neural interface systems.
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- Jerald Yoo
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117585, Singapore; The N.1 Institute for Health, Singapore, Singapore, 117456, Singapore
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- Institute of Electrical Engineering, Center for Neuroprosthetics, École polytechnique federal de Lausanne (EPFL), 1202, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Gautam A, Kohno T. An Adaptive STDP Learning Rule for Neuromorphic Systems. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:741116. [PMID: 34630026 PMCID: PMC8498208 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.741116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 08/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The promise of neuromorphic computing to develop ultra-low-power intelligent devices lies in its ability to localize information processing and memory storage in synaptic circuits much like the synapses in the brain. Spiking neural networks modeled using high-resolution synapses and armed with local unsupervised learning rules like spike time-dependent plasticity (STDP) have shown promising results in tasks such as pattern detection and image classification. However, designing and implementing a conventional, multibit STDP circuit becomes complex both in terms of the circuitry and the required silicon area. In this work, we introduce a modified and hardware-friendly STDP learning (named adaptive STDP) implemented using just 4-bit synapses. We demonstrate the capability of this learning rule in a pattern recognition task, in which a neuron learns to recognize a specific spike pattern embedded within noisy inhomogeneous Poisson spikes. Our results demonstrate that the performance of the proposed learning rule (94% using just 4-bit synapses) is similar to the conventional STDP learning (96% using 64-bit floating-point precision). The models used in this study are ideal ones for a CMOS neuromorphic circuit with analog soma and synapse circuits and mixed-signal learning circuits. The learning circuit stores the synaptic weight in a 4-bit digital memory that is updated asynchronously. In circuit simulation with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) 250 nm CMOS process design kit (PDK), the static power consumption of a single synapse and the energy per spike (to generate a synaptic current of amplitude 15 pA and time constant 3 ms) are less than 2 pW and 200 fJ, respectively. The static power consumption of the learning circuit is less than 135 pW, and the energy to process a pair of pre- and postsynaptic spikes corresponding to a single learning step is less than 235 pJ. A single 4-bit synapse (capable of being configured as excitatory, inhibitory, or shunting inhibitory) along with its learning circuitry and digital memory occupies around 17,250 μm2 of silicon area.
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- Ashish Gautam
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Nishi Y, Nomura K, Marukame T, Mizushima K. Stochastic binary synapses having sigmoidal cumulative distribution functions for unsupervised learning with spike timing-dependent plasticity. Sci Rep 2021; 11:18282. [PMID: 34521895 PMCID: PMC8440757 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-97583-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2021] [Accepted: 08/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Spike timing-dependent plasticity (STDP), which is widely studied as a fundamental synaptic update rule for neuromorphic hardware, requires precise control of continuous weights. From the viewpoint of hardware implementation, a simplified update rule is desirable. Although simplified STDP with stochastic binary synapses was proposed previously, we find that it leads to degradation of memory maintenance during learning, which is unfavourable for unsupervised online learning. In this work, we propose a stochastic binary synaptic model where the cumulative probability of the weight change evolves in a sigmoidal fashion with potentiation or depression trials, which can be implemented using a pair of switching devices consisting of serially connected multiple binary memristors. As a benchmark test we perform simulations of unsupervised learning of MNIST images with a two-layer network and show that simplified STDP in combination with this model can outperform conventional rules with continuous weights not only in memory maintenance but also in recognition accuracy. Our method achieves 97.3% in recognition accuracy, which is higher than that reported with standard STDP in the same framework. We also show that the high performance of our learning rule is robust against device-to-device variability of the memristor's probabilistic behaviour.
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- Yoshifumi Nishi
- Frontier Research Laboratory, Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corporation, 1, Komukai-Toshiba-Cho, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, 212-8582, Japan.
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- Frontier Research Laboratory, Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corporation, 1, Komukai-Toshiba-Cho, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, 212-8582, Japan
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- Frontier Research Laboratory, Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corporation, 1, Komukai-Toshiba-Cho, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, 212-8582, Japan
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- Frontier Research Laboratory, Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corporation, 1, Komukai-Toshiba-Cho, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, 212-8582, Japan
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Vanattou-Saïfoudine N, Han C, Krause R, Vasilaki E, von der Behrens W, Indiveri G. A robust model of Stimulus-Specific Adaptation validated on neuromorphic hardware. Sci Rep 2021; 11:17904. [PMID: 34504155 PMCID: PMC8429557 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-97217-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 08/10/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Stimulus-Specific Adaptation (SSA) to repetitive stimulation is a phenomenon that has been observed across many different species and in several brain sensory areas. It has been proposed as a computational mechanism, responsible for separating behaviorally relevant information from the continuous stream of sensory information. Although SSA can be induced and measured reliably in a wide variety of conditions, the network details and intracellular mechanisms giving rise to SSA still remain unclear. Recent computational studies proposed that SSA could be associated with a fast and synchronous neuronal firing phenomenon called Population Spikes (PS). Here, we test this hypothesis using a mean-field rate model and corroborate it using a neuromorphic hardware. As the neuromorphic circuits used in this study operate in real-time with biologically realistic time constants, they can reproduce the same dynamics observed in biological systems, together with the exploration of different connectivity schemes, with complete control of the system parameter settings. Besides, the hardware permits the iteration of multiple experiments over many trials, for extended amounts of time and without losing the networks and individual neural processes being studied. Following this "neuromorphic engineering" approach, we therefore study the PS hypothesis in a biophysically inspired recurrent networks of spiking neurons and evaluate the role of different linear and non-linear dynamic computational primitives such as spike-frequency adaptation or short-term depression (STD). We compare both the theoretical mean-field model of SSA and PS to previously obtained experimental results in the area of novelty detection and observe its behavior on its neuromorphic physical equivalent model. We show how the approach proposed can be extended to other computational neuroscience modelling efforts for understanding high-level phenomena in mechanistic models.
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- Natacha Vanattou-Saïfoudine
- Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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A Cost-Efficient High-Speed VLSI Architecture for Spiking Convolutional Neural Network Inference Using Time-Step Binary Spike Maps. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21186006. [PMID: 34577214 PMCID: PMC8471769 DOI: 10.3390/s21186006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2021] [Revised: 08/31/2021] [Accepted: 09/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Neuromorphic hardware systems have been gaining ever-increasing focus in many embedded applications as they use a brain-inspired, energy-efficient spiking neural network (SNN) model that closely mimics the human cortex mechanism by communicating and processing sensory information via spatiotemporally sparse spikes. In this paper, we fully leverage the characteristics of spiking convolution neural network (SCNN), and propose a scalable, cost-efficient, and high-speed VLSI architecture to accelerate deep SCNN inference for real-time low-cost embedded scenarios. We leverage the snapshot of binary spike maps at each time-step, to decompose the SCNN operations into a series of regular and simple time-step CNN-like processing to reduce hardware resource consumption. Moreover, our hardware architecture achieves high throughput by employing a pixel stream processing mechanism and fine-grained data pipelines. Our Zynq-7045 FPGA prototype reached a high processing speed of 1250 frames/s and high recognition accuracies on the MNIST and Fashion-MNIST image datasets, demonstrating the plausibility of our SCNN hardware architecture for many embedded applications.
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Han JK, Oh J, Yun GJ, Yoo D, Kim MS, Yu JM, Choi SY, Choi YK. Cointegration of single-transistor neurons and synapses by nanoscale CMOS fabrication for highly scalable neuromorphic hardware. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:7/32/eabg8836. [PMID: 34348898 PMCID: PMC8336957 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg8836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Cointegration of multistate single-transistor neurons and synapses was demonstrated for highly scalable neuromorphic hardware, using nanoscale complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication. The neurons and synapses were integrated on the same plane with the same process because they have the same structure of a metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor with different functions such as homotype. By virtue of 100% CMOS compatibility, it was also realized to cointegrate the neurons and synapses with additional CMOS circuits. Such cointegration can enhance packing density, reduce chip cost, and simplify fabrication procedures. The multistate single-transistor neuron that can control neuronal inhibition and the firing threshold voltage was achieved for an energy-efficient and reliable neural network. Spatiotemporal neuronal functionalities are demonstrated with fabricated single-transistor neurons and synapses. Image processing for letter pattern recognition and face image recognition is performed using experimental-based neuromorphic simulation.
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- Joon-Kyu Han
- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- National Nanofab Center (NNFC), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea.
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An adaptive threshold neuron for recurrent spiking neural networks with nanodevice hardware implementation. Nat Commun 2021; 12:4234. [PMID: 34244491 PMCID: PMC8270926 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24427-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2020] [Accepted: 06/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We propose a Double EXponential Adaptive Threshold (DEXAT) neuron model that improves the performance of neuromorphic Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks (RSNNs) by providing faster convergence, higher accuracy and a flexible long short-term memory. We present a hardware efficient methodology to realize the DEXAT neurons using tightly coupled circuit-device interactions and experimentally demonstrate the DEXAT neuron block using oxide based non-filamentary resistive switching devices. Using experimentally extracted parameters we simulate a full RSNN that achieves a classification accuracy of 96.1% on SMNIST dataset and 91% on Google Speech Commands (GSC) dataset. We also demonstrate full end-to-end real-time inference for speech recognition using real fabricated resistive memory circuit based DEXAT neurons. Finally, we investigate the impact of nanodevice variability and endurance illustrating the robustness of DEXAT based RSNNs. Recurrent spiking neural networks have garnered interest due to their energy efficiency; however, they suffer from lower accuracy compared to conventional neural networks. Here, the authors present an alternative neuron model and its efficient hardware implementation, demonstrating high classification accuracy across a range of datasets.
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We propose a spiking neural network (SNN) approach for radar-based hand gesture recognition (HGR), using frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) millimeter-wave radar. After pre-processing the range-Doppler or micro-Doppler radar signal, we use a signal-to-spike conversion scheme that encodes radar Doppler maps into spike trains. The spike trains are fed into a spiking recurrent neural network, a liquid state machine (LSM). The readout spike signal from the SNN is then used as input for different classifiers for comparison, including logistic regression, random forest, and support vector machine (SVM). Using liquid state machines of less than 1000 neurons, we achieve better than state-of-the-art results on two publicly available reference datasets, reaching over 98% accuracy on 10-fold cross-validation for both data sets.
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Stapmanns J, Hahne J, Helias M, Bolten M, Diesmann M, Dahmen D. Event-Based Update of Synapses in Voltage-Based Learning Rules. Front Neuroinform 2021; 15:609147. [PMID: 34177505 PMCID: PMC8222618 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2021.609147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Due to the point-like nature of neuronal spiking, efficient neural network simulators often employ event-based simulation schemes for synapses. Yet many types of synaptic plasticity rely on the membrane potential of the postsynaptic cell as a third factor in addition to pre- and postsynaptic spike times. In some learning rules membrane potentials not only influence synaptic weight changes at the time points of spike events but in a continuous manner. In these cases, synapses therefore require information on the full time course of membrane potentials to update their strength which a priori suggests a continuous update in a time-driven manner. The latter hinders scaling of simulations to realistic cortical network sizes and relevant time scales for learning. Here, we derive two efficient algorithms for archiving postsynaptic membrane potentials, both compatible with modern simulation engines based on event-based synapse updates. We theoretically contrast the two algorithms with a time-driven synapse update scheme to analyze advantages in terms of memory and computations. We further present a reference implementation in the spiking neural network simulator NEST for two prototypical voltage-based plasticity rules: the Clopath rule and the Urbanczik-Senn rule. For both rules, the two event-based algorithms significantly outperform the time-driven scheme. Depending on the amount of data to be stored for plasticity, which heavily differs between the rules, a strong performance increase can be achieved by compressing or sampling of information on membrane potentials. Our results on computational efficiency related to archiving of information provide guidelines for the design of learning rules in order to make them practically usable in large-scale networks.
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- Jonas Stapmanns
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), JARA Institute Brain Structure Function Relationship (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
- Department of Physics, Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), JARA Institute Brain Structure Function Relationship (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
- Department of Physics, Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), JARA Institute Brain Structure Function Relationship (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
- Department of Physics, Faculty 1, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), JARA Institute Brain Structure Function Relationship (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
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Bogdan PA, Marcinnò B, Casellato C, Casali S, Rowley AGD, Hopkins M, Leporati F, D'Angelo E, Rhodes O. Towards a Bio-Inspired Real-Time Neuromorphic Cerebellum. Front Cell Neurosci 2021; 15:622870. [PMID: 34135732 PMCID: PMC8202688 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2021.622870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Accepted: 03/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
This work presents the first simulation of a large-scale, bio-physically constrained cerebellum model performed on neuromorphic hardware. A model containing 97,000 neurons and 4.2 million synapses is simulated on the SpiNNaker neuromorphic system. Results are validated against a baseline simulation of the same model executed with NEST, a popular spiking neural network simulator using generic computational resources and double precision floating point arithmetic. Individual cell and network-level spiking activity is validated in terms of average spike rates, relative lead or lag of spike times, and membrane potential dynamics of individual neurons, and SpiNNaker is shown to produce results in agreement with NEST. Once validated, the model is used to investigate how to accelerate the simulation speed of the network on the SpiNNaker system, with the future goal of creating a real-time neuromorphic cerebellum. Through detailed communication profiling, peak network activity is identified as one of the main challenges for simulation speed-up. Propagation of spiking activity through the network is measured, and will inform the future development of accelerated execution strategies for cerebellum models on neuromorphic hardware. The large ratio of granule cells to other cell types in the model results in high levels of activity converging onto few cells, with those cells having relatively larger time costs associated with the processing of communication. Organizing cells on SpiNNaker in accordance with their spatial position is shown to reduce the peak communication load by 41%. It is hoped that these insights, together with alternative parallelization strategies, will pave the way for real-time execution of large-scale, bio-physically constrained cerebellum models on SpiNNaker. This in turn will enable exploration of cerebellum-inspired controllers for neurorobotic applications, and execution of extended duration simulations over timescales that would currently be prohibitive using conventional computational platforms.
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Affiliation(s)
- Petruţ A Bogdan
- Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
| | - Beatrice Marcinnò
- Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - Claudia Casellato
- Neurophysiology Unit, Neurocomputational Laboratory, Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - Stefano Casali
- Neurophysiology Unit, Neurocomputational Laboratory, Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - Andrew G D Rowley
- Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
| | - Michael Hopkins
- Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
| | - Francesco Leporati
- Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - Egidio D'Angelo
- Neurophysiology Unit, Neurocomputational Laboratory, Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.,IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy
| | - Oliver Rhodes
- Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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