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Record W4395456619 · doi:10.1002/eng2.12902

A reliable non‐volatile in‐memory computing associative memory based on spintronic neurons and synapses

2024· article· en· W4395456619 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueEngineering Reports · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAdvanced Memory and Neural Computing
Canadian institutionsInstitut interdisciplinaire d'innovation technologiqueUniversité de Sherbrooke
Fundersnot available
KeywordsContent-addressable memoryComputer scienceAssociative propertyNon-volatile memorySpintronicsNeuroscienceComputer architecturePsychologyComputer hardwareArtificial neural networkArtificial intelligenceMathematicsPhysics

Abstract

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Abstract This article introduces an innovative non‐volatile associative memory (AM) that leverages spintronic synapses, employing magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) in conjunction with neurons constructed using carbon nanotube field‐effect transistors (CNTFETs). Our proposed design represents a significant advancement in area optimization and outperforms prior designs. We adopt MTJ‐based spintronic devices due to their remarkable attributes, including dependable reconfigurability and nonvolatility. Simultaneously, CNTFETs effectively address the longstanding limitations traditionally associated with MOSFETs. In this work, our proposed design undergoes rigorous simulations that account for process variations. The results demonstrate that our AM system closely approximates its ideal mathematical model, even with significant process variations. Furthermore, we investigate the impact of Tunnel Magnetoresistance (TMR) on the performance of our proposed AM system. Our investigations reveal that, even with a TMR as low as 100%, our design matches and often surpasses the performance of its counterparts operating with a TMR of 300%. This achievement holds profound significance from a fabrication standpoint, as fabricating MTJs with high TMR values can be intricate and costly. Overall, our novel AM system represents a significant breakthrough in emerging technologies, harnessing the unique strengths of spintronic synapses and advanced carbon nanotube transistors while robustly addressing challenges in performance and variability.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.210
Teacher spread0.205 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it