Nathaniel Cady, Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp, Karsten Beckmann, Joseph Van Nostrand, Gangotree Chakma, Sherif Amer, Ryan Weiss, Sagarvarma Sayyaparaju, Mussabir Adnan, John Murray, Mark Dean, James S. Plank and Garrett Rose

March, 2019

44th Annual GOMACTech Conference

https://www.gomactech.net/2019/index.html

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Abstract

Spiking networks are biologically-inspired or ‘neuromorphic’ systems which aim to emulate features of biological neuronal networks such as tolerance to failure, on-line learning, and very low power consumption. While many spiking networks are simulated in software on standard computing hardware, dedicated hardware is required to gain all the advantages of spiking networks. Under an AFRL-sponsored program, we have developed mrDANNA, a dedicated neuromorphic nanoelectronic platform for spiking networks. One key feature of mrDANNA is that connections between its spike-integrating neurons are encoded in a nanoscale resistive memory element (ReRAM). This allows for both very small footprint and lower power consumption. However, ReRAM is still a developing memory which can contain large levels of variability. In this work, we investigate the impacts of this variability in designing and executing spiking networks on physical neuromorphic hardware.

Citation Information

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title       Adapting Spiking Networks to Neuromorphic Hardware Subject to Process Variability
author      N. Cady and W. Olin-Ammentorp and K. Beckmann and J. V. Nostrand and 
            G. Chakma and S. Amer and R. Weiss and S. Sayyaparaju and M. Adnan and 
            J. Murray and
            M. Dean and J. S. Plank and Garrett Rose
booktitle   44th Annual GOMACTech Conference
month       March
year        2019
address     Albuquerque
url         http://neuromorphic.eecs.utk.edu/raw/files/publications/2019-Gomac-Cady.pdf

Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{cob:19:asn,
    title = "Adapting Spiking Networks to Neuromorphic Hardware Subject to Process Variability",
    author = "N. Cady and W. Olin-Ammentorp and K. Beckmann and J. V. Nostrand and G. Chakma
                and S. Amer and R. Weiss and S. Sayyaparaju and M. Adnan and J. Murray and
                M. Dean and J. S. Plank and Garrett Rose",
    booktitle = "44th Annual GOMACTech Conference",
    month = "March",
    year = "2019",
    address = "Albuquerque",
    url = "http://neuromorphic.eecs.utk.edu/raw/files/publications/2019-Gomac-Cady.pdf"
}