Resistive memories to enable frugal AI devices
Elisa Vianello a, Filippo Moro a, Tifenn Hirtzlin a, Emmanuel Hardy a, Bruno Fain a, Melika Payvand b, Damien Querlioz c
a Grenoble Alpes University, CEA, LETI, F38000 Grenoble, France,
b University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse, 190, Zürich, Switzerland
c Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies site de Marcoussis CNRS Université Paris Sud Université Paris Saclay route de Nozay 91460 Marcoussis, France
Proceedings of Materials, devices and systems for neuromorphic computing 2022 (MatNeC22)
Groningen, Netherlands, 2022 March 28th - 29th
Organizers: Jasper van der Velde, Elisabetta Chicca, Yoeri van de Burgt and Beatriz Noheda
Invited Speaker, Elisa Vianello, presentation 017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matnec.2022.017
Publication date: 23rd February 2022

Resistive random access memory (RRAM) technologies, often referred to as memristors, hold fantastic promise for implementing novel in-memory computing systems for massively parallel, low-power and low-latency computation. Compared to conventional systems, these solutions offer promising advantages in terms of energy efficiency and computing power when processing AI workloads. This talk will first present the role of RRAM to enable the hardware implementation of resource-constrained neuromorphic hardware. I will present a event-driven object localization system that couples state-of-the-art piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer (pMUT) sensors to a neuromorphic resistive memories-based computational map. Second, I will present an approach where the random nature of resistive memories, instead of being mitigated, is fully exploited to implement a type of probabilistic learning in Bayesian neural networks. The inherent variability of resistive memories can naturally implement the sampling step in the Metropolis-Hastings Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm. This approch constitutes a new path to bring learning to the edge.

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