Ferroelectric field effect transistors based approach for euclidean distance calculation in neuromorphic hardware
AssigneeUniversity of Cincinnati
InventorsSiddharth Barve, Rashmi Jha
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Abstract
An apparatus may comprise a synapse comprising a first reconfigurable field-effect transistor; a second reconfigurable field-effect transistor connected in parallel to the first reconfigurable field-effect transistor; an input voltage applied to each of the first reconfigurable field-effect transistor and the second reconfigurable field-effect transistor corresponding to an input attribute associated with an error computation; and a current sensor measures a saturation drain current of the first reconfigurable field-effect transistor and the second reconfigurable field-effect transistor and determines a Euclidean error based on the saturation drain current of the FETs
Claims20
An apparatus comprising a synapse comprising:
- a first reconfigurable field-effect transistor;
- a second reconfigurable field-effect transistor connected in parallel to the first reconfigurable field-effect transistor;
- an input voltage applied to each of the first reconfigurable field-effect transistor and the second reconfigurable field-effect transistor corresponding to an input attribute associated with an error computation;
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- a current sensor measures a saturation drain current of the first reconfigurable field-effect transistor and the second reconfigurable field-effect transistor and determines a Euclidean error based on the saturation drain current of the first reconfigurable field-effect transistor and the second reconfigurable field-effect transistor.
A method comprising:
- receiving an input voltage corresponding to an input attribute of a self-organizing feature map;
- applying the input voltage to each synapse of a two-dimensional grid of synapses, each synapse corresponding to a neuron of the self-organizing feature map, and comprising two reconfigurable field-effect transistors, wherein a weight associated with the neuron is stored as a threshold voltage of at least one of the reconfigurable field-effect transistors;
- determining a best matching neuron based on a saturation drain current of at least one of the reconfigurable field-effect transistors;
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- updating the threshold voltages of the reconfigurable field-effect transistors based on the best matching neurons.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.