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Dendritic Computing with Multigate Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistors.

A N M Nafiul Islam¹, Xuezhong Niu², Jiahui Duan²

¹School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States.

|October 27, 2025

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We developed novel dendritic neurons using ferroelectric transistors to mimic brain computation. This hardware significantly enhances neuromorphic system efficiency and learning capacity for edge applications.

Keywords:

Brain-inspired computing Dendrites Edge artificial intelligence Ferroelectric field-effect transistor Hardware-software codesign

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Area of Science:

Neuromorphic Engineering
Artificial Intelligence Hardware
Computational Neuroscience

Background:

Artificial neural networks typically use simplified point-neurons, lacking the complex processing capabilities of biological neurons.
Biological neurons possess dendritic arbors that perform local computations, crucial for information processing and learning.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a novel artificial neuron design that mimics biological dendrites using multigate ferroelectric field-effect transistors.
To leverage ferroelectric nonlinearity for local dendritic computations and transistor action for neuronal output.

Main Methods:

Development of a multigate ferroelectric field-effect transistor-based neuron design.
Implementation of an experimentally calibrated device-circuit-algorithm co-simulation framework.
Comparison of network performance with and without dendritic neurons.

Main Results:

The proposed dendritic neuron design mimics local nonlinear accumulation found in biological dendrites.
Networks with dendritic neurons achieved superior performance with significantly fewer trainable parameters (approximately 17x reduction).
Branched architecture facilitates smaller crossbar arrays for improved hardware integration efficiency.

Conclusions:

Dendritic hardware, utilizing ferroelectric nonlinearity, can substantially enhance the computational efficiency of neuromorphic systems.
This approach offers improved learning capacity, particularly for edge computing applications.
The novel neuron design represents a significant step towards more biologically plausible and efficient artificial intelligence hardware.