Impact of PCM resistance-drift in neuromorphic systems and drift-mitigation strategy

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, NANOARCH 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 140-145

  Suri, Manan ^a   Garbin, Daniele ^a   Bichler, Olivier ^b   Querlioz, Damien ^d   Vuillaume, Dominique ^c   Gamrat, Christian ^b   Desalvo, Barbara ^a  

^a CEA LETI   (France)

^b CEA LIST   (France)

^c INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^d UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS PHASE; NEUROMORPHIC ARCHITECTURES; NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING; NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEMS; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY (PCM); POWER CONSUMPTION ANALYSIS; RESISTIVE MEMORY; SYSTEM LEVEL SIMULATION;

BENCHMARKING; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84886768743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NanoArch.2013.6623059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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