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Device-aware inference operations in SONOS nonvolatile memory arrays

IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium Proceedings

Bennett, Christopher H.; Xiao, T.P.; Dellana, Ryan A.; Feinberg, Benjamin M.; Agarwal, Sapan; Marinella, Matthew; Agrawal, Vineet; Prabhakar, Venkatraman; Ramkumar, Krishnaswamy; Hinh, Long; Saha, Swatilekha; Raghavan, Vijay; Chettuvetty, Ramesh

Non-volatile memory arrays can deploy pre-trained neural network models for edge inference. However, these systems are affected by device-level noise and retention issues. Here, we examine damage caused by these effects, introduce a mitigation strategy, and demonstrate its use in fabricated array of SONOS (Silicon-Oxide-Nitride-Oxide-Silicon) devices. On MNIST, fashion-MNIST, and CIFAR-10 tasks, our approach increases resilience to synaptic noise and drift. We also show strong performance can be realized with ADCs of 5-8 bits precision.

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Plasticity-enhanced domain-wall MTJ neural networks for energy-efficient online learning

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Bennett, Christopher H.; Xiao, T.P.; Cui, Can; Hassan, Naimul; Akinola, Otitoaleke G.; Incorvia, Jean A.C.; Velasquez, Alvaro; Friedman, Joseph S.; Marinella, Matthew

Machine learning implements backpropagation via abundant training samples. We demonstrate a multi-stage learning system realized by a promising non-volatile memory device, the domain-wall magnetic tunnel junction (DW-MTJ). The system consists of unsupervised (clustering) as well as supervised sub-systems, and generalizes quickly (with few samples). We demonstrate interactions between physical properties of this device and optimal implementation of neuroscience-inspired plasticity learning rules, and highlight performance on a suite of tasks. Our energy analysis confirms the value of the approach, as the learning budget stays below 20µJ even for large tasks used typically in machine learning.

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Energy and Performance Benchmarking of a Domain Wall-Magnetic Tunnel Junction Multibit Adder

IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits

Xiao, T.P.; Bennett, Christopher H.; Hu, Xuan; Feinberg, Benjamin M.; Jacobs-Gedrim, Robin B.; Agarwal, Sapan; Brunhaver, John S.; Friedman, Joseph S.; Incorvia, Jean A.C.; Marinella, Matthew

The domain-wall (DW)-magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device implements universal Boolean logic in a manner that is naturally compact and cascadable. However, an evaluation of the energy efficiency of this emerging technology for standard logic applications is still lacking. In this article, we use a previously developed compact model to construct and benchmark a 32-bit adder entirely from DW-MTJ devices that communicates with DW-MTJ registers. The results of this large-scale design and simulation indicate that while the energy cost of systems driven by spin-Transfer torque (STT) DW motion is significantly higher than previously predicted, the same concept using spin-orbit torque (SOT) switching benefits from an improvement in the energy per operation by multiple orders of magnitude, attaining competitive energy values relative to a comparable CMOS subprocessor component. This result clarifies the path toward practical implementations of an all-magnetic processor system.

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