An 8-bit In Resistive Memory Computing Core with Regulated Passive Neuron and Bit Line Weight Mapping
Yewei Zhang (Student Member, IEEE), Kejie Huang (Senior Member, IEEE),, Rui Xiao (Student Member, IEEE), and Haibin Shen

TL;DR
This paper presents an 8-bit resistive memory computing core with a novel neuron and weight mapping scheme that enhances power efficiency and robustness for edge AI applications.
Contribution
It introduces a low power RRAM-based CIM core with a bit line regulator and weight mapping algorithm to improve accuracy and performance.
Findings
Power consumption is only 3.61mW for the 256x256 core.
Achieves SFDR of 59.13 dB and SNDR of 46.13 dB.
Improves top-1 accuracy by up to 3.47% on VGG16 with 8-bit mode.
Abstract
The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) increases the requirement for edge computing with low power and relatively high processing speed devices. The Computing-In-Memory(CIM) schemes based on emerging resistive Non-Volatile Memory(NVM) show great potential in reducing the power consumption for AI computing. However, the device inconsistency of the non-volatile memory may significantly degenerate the performance of the neural network. In this paper, we propose a low power Resistive RAM (RRAM) based CIM core to not only achieve high computing efficiency but also greatly enhance the robustness by bit line regulator and bit line weight mapping algorithm. The simulation results show that the power consumption of our proposed 8-bit CIM core is only 3.61mW (256*256). The SFDR and SNDR of the CIM core achieve 59.13 dB and 46.13 dB, respectively. The…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Memory and Neural Computing · Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices · Machine Learning and ELM
