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Jun Cai^1,2, Peng Wu^3,4, Rahul Tripathi^1,2

¹Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States.

|August 13, 2024

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Researchers developed a single-transistor Ternary Content-Addressable Memory (TCAM) using 2D materials. This reliable, nonvolatile memory enables efficient in-memory computing for artificial intelligence applications.

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Ternary content-addressable memory few-shot learning floating-gate transistor in-memory computing two-dimensional materials

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Computer Engineering

Background:

Ternary Content-Addressable Memory (TCAM) is crucial for AI due to parallel in-memory computing.
Building reliable single-component TCAM cells remains a significant challenge.
Existing TCAM technologies face limitations in scalability and efficiency.

Purpose of the Study:

To demonstrate a novel single-transistor TCAM cell.
To leverage two-dimensional (2D) materials for enhanced memory performance.
To enable efficient in-memory computing for AI applications.

Main Methods:

Fabrication of a TCAM cell using a floating-gate, 2D ambipolar MoTe2 field-effect transistor with graphene contacts.
Utilizing a bottom graphene contact scheme for gate-modulated Schottky barrier heights.
Integration with a floating-gate stack for nonvolatile memory characteristics.

Main Results:

Achieved a TCAM cell with a resistance ratio greater than 1000 and symmetrical complementary states.
Demonstrated the potential for device scaling beyond silicon due to 2D materials.
Verified the feasibility of in-memory Hamming distance computation via circuit simulations for up to 128 cells.

Conclusions:

The developed single-transistor TCAM offers a reliable and scalable solution for AI hardware.
The use of 2D materials and graphene contacts facilitates high performance and device miniaturization.
This TCAM architecture is well-suited for implementing large-scale in-memory computing arrays.