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most citedLow-Energy Deep Belief Networks using Intrinsic Sigmoidal Spintronic-based Probabilistic Neurons

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cs.ET2020

Electrically-Tunable Stochasticity for Spin-based Neuromorphic Circuits: Self-Adjusting to Variation

Hossein Pourmeidani, Punyashloka Debashis, Zhihong Chen +2

Energy-efficient methods are addressed for leveraging low energy barrier nanomagnetic devices within neuromorphic architectures. Using a Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM…

cs.ET2020

Modular Simulation Framework for Process Variation Analysis of MRAM-based Deep Belief Networks

Paul Wood, Hossein Pourmeidani, Ronald F. DeMara

Magnetic Random-Access Memory (MRAM) based p-bit neuromorphic computing devices are garnering increasing interest as a means to compactly and efficiently realize machine learning o…

cs.ET2019

Adaptive Non-Uniform Compressive Sensing using SOT-MRAM Multibit Crossbar Arrays

Soheil Salehi, Ronald F. DeMara

A Compressive Sensing (CS) approach is applied to utilize intrinsic computation capabilities of Spin-Orbit Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (SOT-MRAM) devices for IoT applicati…

cs.ET2019

IRC: Cross-layer design exploration of Intermittent Robust Computation units for IoTs

Arman Roohi, Ronald F DeMara

Energy-harvesting-powered computing offers intriguing and vast opportunities to dramatically transform the landscape of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices by utilizing ambient so…

cs.ET2019

Clockless Spin-based Look-Up Tables with Wide Read Margin

Soheil Salehi, Ramtin Zand, Ronald F. DeMara

In this paper, we develop a 6-input fracturable non-volatile Clockless LUT (C-LUT) using spin Hall effect (SHE)-based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJs) and provide a detailed compar…

cs.ET2019

AQuRate: MRAM-based Stochastic Oscillator for Adaptive Quantization Rate Sampling of Sparse Signals

Soheil Salehi, Ramtin Zand, Alireza Zaeemzadeh +2

Recently, the promising aspects of compressive sensing have inspired new circuit-level approaches for their efficient realization within the literature. However, most of these rece…

cs.ET2019

SNRA: A Spintronic Neuromorphic Reconfigurable Array for In-Circuit Training and Evaluation of Deep Belief Networks

Ramtin Zand, Ronald F. DeMara

In this paper, a spintronic neuromorphic reconfigurable Array (SNRA) is developed to fuse together power-efficient probabilistic and in-field programmable deterministic computing d…

cs.ET2018★ 40 cited

Composable Probabilistic Inference Networks Using MRAM-based Stochastic Neurons

Ramtin Zand, Kerem Y. Camsari, Supriyo Datta +1

Magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) technologies with thermally unstable nanomagnets are leveraged to develop an intrinsic stochastic neuron as a building block for restri…

cs.ET2017★ 45 cited

Low-Energy Deep Belief Networks using Intrinsic Sigmoidal Spintronic-based Probabilistic Neurons

Ramtin Zand, Kerem Yunus Camsari, Steven D. Pyle +3

A low-energy hardware implementation of deep belief network (DBN) architecture is developed using near-zero energy barrier probabilistic spin logic devices (p-bits), which are mode…