SOT-MRAM based Sigmoidal Neuron for Neuromorphic Architectures
In this paper, the intrinsic physical characteristics of spin-orbit torque (SOT) magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) devices are leveraged to realize sigmoidal neurons in neuromorphic architectures. Performance comparisons with the previous power- and area-efficient sigmoidal neuron circuits exhibit 74x and 12x reduction in power-area-product values for the proposed SOT-MRAM based neuron. To verify the functionally of the proposed neuron within larger scale designs, we have implemented a circuit realization of a 784x16x10 SOT-MRAM based multiplayer perceptron (MLP) for MNIST pattern recognition application using SPICE circuit simulation tool. The results obtained exhibit that the proposed SOT-MRAM based MLP can achieve accuracies comparable to an ideal binarized MLP architecture implemented on GPU, while realizing orders of magnitude increase in processing speed.
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