High-Precision Symmetric Weight Update of Memristor by Gate Voltage Ramping Method for Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator

被引:37
作者
Chen, Jia [1 ]
Pan, Wen-Qian [1 ]
Li, Yi [1 ]
Kuang, Rui [1 ]
He, Yu-Hui [1 ]
Lin, Chih-Yang [2 ]
Duan, Nian [1 ]
Feng, Gui-Rong [1 ]
Zheng, Hao-Xuan [2 ]
Chang, Ting-Chang [2 ]
Sze, Simon M. [3 ]
Miao, Xiang-Shui [1 ]
机构
[1] Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Opt & Elect Informat, Wuhan Natl Lab Optoelect, Wuhan 430074, Peoples R China
[2] Natl Sun Yat Sen Univ, Dept Phys, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan
[3] Natl Chiao Tung Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Memristor; symmetric weight update; convolutional neural network; MEMORY; CLASSIFICATION;
D O I
10.1109/LED.2020.2968388
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Memristor emerges as the key enabler for neural network accelerator. Here, we demonstrate high-precision symmetric weight update in a one transistor one resistor (1T1R) structure Ti/HfO2/TiN memristor using a gate voltage ramping method, with over 120-level states and low variation (< 4%). Incorporating all experimental non-idealities, the proposed mixed hardware-software convolutional neural network demonstrates over 92.79% online learning accuracy (against software equivalent 98.45%) for MNIST recognition task. The network also shows robustness to input image noises, array yield, and retention issues.
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页码:353 / 356
页数:4
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