Physical Implementation of Coherently Coupled Oscillator Networks

IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 76-84

  Pufall, Matthew R ^a   Rippard, William H ^a   Csaba, György ^b   Nikonov, Dmitri E ^c   Bourianoff, George I ^c   Porod, Wolfgang ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative processing; Non Boolean computing; Oscillator synchronization; Spin torque oscillators

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); SYNCHRONIZATION;

ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONSTRUCT MODELS; COUPLED OSCILLATOR NETWORKS; COUPLED OSCILLATORS; NON-BOOLEAN COMPUTING; SIMULATION STUDIES; SPIN-TORQUE OSCILLATORS;

ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING;

COMPUTATION; OSCILLATORS; SIMULATION;

EID: 84988477688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23299231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JXCDC.2015.2468070     Document Type: Article

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