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most citedBand-to-Band Tunneling based Ultra-Energy Efficient Silicon Neuron

57 citations · 183 across the 33 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

cs.NE2023★ 1 cited

Non-Ideal Program-Time Conservation in Charge Trap Flash for Deep Learning

Shalini Shrivastava, Vivek Saraswat, Gayatri Dash +2

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) is computationally intensive but arrays of non-volatile memories like Charge Trap Flash (CTF) can accelerate DNN operations using in-memory com…

eess.SY2023

Ferroelectric MirrorBit-Integrated Field-Programmable Memory Array for TCAM, Storage, and In-Memory Computing Applications

Paritosh Meihar, Rowtu Srinu, Sandip Lashkare +6

In-memory computing on a reconfigurable architecture is the emerging field which performs an application-based resource allocation for computational efficiency and energy optimizat…

physics.app-ph2023

Process Voltage Temperature Variability Estimation of Tunneling Current for Band-to-Band-Tunneling based Neuron

Shubham Patil, Anand Sharma, Gaurav R +5

Compact and energy-efficient Synapse and Neurons are essential to realize the full potential of neuromorphic computing. In addition, a low variability is indeed needed for neurons…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Evolution of ferroelectricity with annealing temperature and thickness in sputter deposited undoped HfO on silicon

Md Hanif Ali, Adityanarayan Pandey, Rowtu Srinu +4

Ferroelectricity in sputtered undoped-HfO is attractive for composition control for low power and non-volatile memory and logic applications. Unlike doped HfO, evolution of…

cs.ET2023

Schottky Barrier MOSFET Enabled Ultra-Low Power Real-Time Neuron for Neuromorphic Computing

Shubham Patil, Jayatika Sakhuja, Ajay Kumar Singh +5

Energy-efficient real-time synapses and neurons are essential to enable large-scale neuromorphic computing. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate the Schottky-Barrier MOSFET-ba…

eess.SY2023

FeFET-based MirrorBit cell for High-density NVM storage

Paritosh Meihar, Rowtu Srinu, Vivek Saraswat +6

HfO2-based Ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) has become a center of attraction for non-volatile memory applications because of their low power, fast switching speed, hi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 16 cited

Interlayer-engineered local epitaxial templating induced enhancement in polarization (2P > 70C/cm) in HfZrO thin films

Srinu Rowtu, Paritosh Meihar, Adityanarayan Pandey +3

In this work, we report a high remnant polarization, 2Pr >70C/cm in thermally processed atomic layer deposited Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 (HZO) film on Silicon with NH3 plasma exposed thi…

cs.NE2022★ 2 cited

A temporally and spatially local spike-based backpropagation algorithm to enable training in hardware

Anmol Biswas, Vivek Saraswat, Udayan Ganguly

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a hardware efficient architecture for classification tasks. The challenge of spike-based encoding has been the lack of a universal tr…

cs.ET2021

Stochasticity Invariance Control in PrCaMnO RRAM to enable Large-Scale Stochastic Recurrent Neural Networks

Vivek Saraswat, Udayan Ganguly

Emerging non-volatile memories have been proposed for a wide range of applications from easing the von-Neumann bottleneck to neuromorphic applications. Specifically, scalable RRAMs…

physics.app-ph2021★ 5 cited

An Accurate Process Induced Variability Aware Compact Model-based Circuit Performance Estimation for Design-Technology Co-optimization

Shubham Patil, Amita Rawat, Udayan Ganguly

In sub-10nm FinFETs, Line-edge-roughness (LER) and metal-gate granularity (MGG) are the two most dominant sources of variability and are mostly modeled semi-empirically. In this wo…

cs.ET2021★ 1 cited

Exploiting the Electrothermal Timescale in PrMnO3 RRAM for a compact, clock-less neuron exhibiting biological spiking patterns

Omkar Phadke, Jayatika Sakhuja, Vivek Saraswat +1

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are gaining widespread momentum in the field of neuromorphic computing. These network systems integrated with neurons and synapses provide computatio…

cs.NE2021

Algorithm For 3D-Chemotaxis Using Spiking Neural Network

Jayesh Choudhary, Vivek Saraswat, Udayan Ganguly

In this work, we aim to devise an end-to-end spiking implementation for contour tracking in 3D media inspired by chemotaxis, where the worm reaches the region which has the given s…

cs.NE2021

Spiking-GAN: A Spiking Generative Adversarial Network Using Time-To-First-Spike Coding

Vineet Kotariya, Udayan Ganguly

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have shown great potential in solving deep learning problems in an energy-efficient manner. However, they are still limited to simple classification…

q-bio.NC2021

Simplified Klinokinesis using Spiking Neural Networks for Resource-Constrained Navigation on the Neuromorphic Processor Loihi

Apoorv Kishore, Vivek Saraswat, Udayan Ganguly

C. elegans shows chemotaxis using klinokinesis where the worm senses the concentration based on a single concentration sensor to compute the concentration gradient to perform forag…

eess.AS2021

Hardware-Friendly Synaptic Orders and Timescales in Liquid State Machines for Speech Classification

Vivek Saraswat, Ajinkya Gorad, Anand Naik +2

Liquid State Machines are brain inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) with random reservoir connectivity and bio-mimetic neuronal and synaptic models. Reservoir computing network…

eess.SY2020

India's Rise in Nanoelectronics Research

Udayan Ganguly, Sandip Lashkare, Swaroop Ganguly

Modern semiconductors innovation has a strong relation to scale and skill. While India has a significant demand for semiconductors, it has a daunting challenge to create a semicond…

q-bio.NC2020

Adaptive Chemotaxis for improved Contour Tracking using Spiking Neural Networks

Shashwat Shukla, Rohan Pathak, Vivek Saraswat +1

In this paper we present a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) for autonomous navigation, inspired by the chemotaxis network of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans. In particular, we focus on…

physics.app-ph2020★ 10 cited

Investigating Transient Characteristics of Volatile Hysteresis and Self-Heating of PrMnO based RRAM

J. Sakhuja, S. Lashkare, K. Jana +1

PrMnO (PMO) based RRAM shows selector-less behavior due to high-non-linearity. Recently, the non-linearity, along with volatile hysteresis, is demonstrated and utilized as a co…

physics.app-ph2020★ 16 cited

Reaction-Drift Model for Switching Transients in PrCaMnO-Based Resistive RAM

Vivek Saraswat, Shankar Prasad, Abhishek Khanna +5

PrCaMnO (PCMO) based RRAM shows promising memory properties like non-volatility, low variability, multiple resistance states and scalability. From a modeling pe…

physics.app-ph2020

Understanding the Location of Resistance Change in the Pr0.7Ca0.3MnO3 RRAM

Sandip Lashkare, Udayan Ganguly

Pr1-xCaxMnO3 (PCMO) based resistance random access memory (RRAM) is attractive in large scale memory and neuromorphic applications as it is non-filamentary, area scalable and has m…

cs.LG2020

Software-Level Accuracy Using Stochastic Computing With Charge-Trap-Flash Based Weight Matrix

Varun Bhatt, Shalini Shrivastava, Tanmay Chavan +1

The in-memory computing paradigm with emerging memory devices has been recently shown to be a promising way to accelerate deep learning. Resistive processing unit (RPU) has been pr…

q-bio.NC2019

Structured Mean-field Variational Inference and Learning in Winner-take-all Spiking Neural Networks

Shashwat Shukla, Hideaki Shimazaki, Udayan Ganguly

The Bayesian view of the brain hypothesizes that the brain constructs a generative model of the world, and uses it to make inferences via Bayes' rule. Although many types of approx…

cs.NE2019★ 57 cited

Band-to-Band Tunneling based Ultra-Energy Efficient Silicon Neuron

Tanmay Chavan, Sangya Dutta, Nihar R. Mohapatra +1

The human brain comprises about a hundred billion neurons connected through quadrillion synapses. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) take inspiration from the brain to model complex co…

cs.ET2019★ 4 cited

Ultra-low Energy charge trap flash based synapse enabled by parasitic leakage mitigation

Shalini Shrivastava, Tanmay Chavan, Udayan Ganguly

Brain-inspired computation promises complex cognitive tasks at biological energy efficiencies. The brain contains synapses per neuron. Hence, ultra-low energy, high-density…