Coupled-oscillator associative memory array operation for pattern recognition

IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 85-93

  Nikonov, Dmitri E ^a   Csaba, Gyorgy ^b   Porod, Wolfgang ^b   Shibata, Tadashi ^c   Voils, Danny ^d   Hammerstrom, Dan ^e   Young, Ian A ^a   Bourianoff, George I ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^e DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Array; Associative memory; Neural networks; Non Boolean computing; Oscillator; Phase locked loop (PLL); Sparse representation; Spin torque

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; ASSOCIATIVE STORAGE; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ARRAY; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; NON-BOOLEAN COMPUTING; PHASE LOCKED LOOP (PLL); SPARSE REPRESENTATION; SPIN TORQUE;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

NEURAL NETWORKS; OSCILLATORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 85015264827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23299231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JXCDC.2015.2504049     Document Type: Article

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