Sponsor
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under awards # 1028378, # 1028238, and # 1318833, and by DARPA under award # HR0011-13-2-0015.
Published In
AIMS Molecular Science
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2015
Subjects
Memristors, Neural networks (Computer science), Prediction models
Abstract
Resistive switches are a class of emerging nanoelectronics devices that exhibit a wide variety of switching characteristics closely resembling behaviors of biological synapses. Assembled into random networks, such resistive switches produce emerging behaviors far more complex than that of individual devices. This was previously demonstrated in simulations that exploit information processing within these random networks to solve tasks that require nonlinear computation as well as memory. Physical assemblies of such networks manifest complex spatial structures and basic processing capabilities often related to biologically-inspired computing. We model and simulate random resistive switch networks and analyze their computational capacities. We provide a detailed discussion of the relevant design parameters and establish the link to the physical assemblies by relating the modeling parameters to physical parameters. More globally connected networks and an increased network switching activity are means to increase the computational capacity linearly at the expense of exponentially growing energy consumption. We discuss a new modular approach that exhibits higher computational capacities and energy consumption growing linearly with the number of networks used. The results show how to optimize the trade-off between computational capacity and energy efficiency and are relevant for the design and fabrication of novel computing architectures that harness random assemblies of emerging nanodevices.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15810
Citation Details
Burger, J., Goudarzi, A., Stefanovic, D., & Teuscher, C. (2015). Computational capacity and energy consumption of complex resistive switch networks. AIMS Materials Science, 2(4), 530–545.
Description
Copyright Info: © 2015, Jens Bürger, Alireza Goudarzi, et al., licensee AIMS Press. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licese (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)