Concept of a System-on-Chip Research Platform Benchmarking Interaction of Memristor-based Bio-inspired Computing Paradigms

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel System-on-Chip architecture integrating memristor-based bio-inspired computing arrays, designed as a benchmark platform to evaluate future memristor-CMOS integration and communication strategies.

Contribution

It introduces a specialized SoC architecture that combines memristor-based arrays with communication interfaces, addressing integration challenges and providing a flexible benchmark platform.

Findings

Design of a memristor-CMOS integrated architecture

Consideration of data bandwidth for internal monitoring

Flexible measurement options for benchmarking

Abstract

A system architecture is suggested for a System on Chip that will combine several different memristor-based, bio-inspired computation arrays with inter- and intra-chip communication. It will serve as a benchmark system for future developments. The architecture takes the special requirements into account which are caused by the memristor co-integration on commercial CMOS structures in a post processing step of the chip. The interface considers the necessary data bandwidth to monitor the internal Network on Chip at speed and provides enough flexibility to give different measurement options.