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Guilherme Migliato Marega1,2, Yanfei Zhao1,2, Ahmet Avsar1,2
1Electrical Engineering Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Nature
|November 5, 2020
まとめ
研究者らは,大面積のモリブデンジスルファイド (MoS2) を使用した新しいロジックインメモリ装置を開発した. 脳にインスパイアされた コンピューティング要素は ロジックとメモリを統合し 機械学習のアプリケーションに 相当なエネルギー節約を約束します
科学分野:
- 材料科学
- 電気工学
- コンピュータ科学
背景:
- 機械学習はエネルギー効率の良いハードウェアを必要とし 伝統的なフォン・ノイマン・アーキテクチャを超えた研究を推進します
- 脳を模倣したインメモリーコンピューティングは ロジックとストレージを統合して データ中心のコンピューティングのエネルギーコストを削減します
- インメモリコンピューティングデバイスに適した材料プラットフォームを開発することは,依然として重要なエンジニアリングの課題です.
研究 の 目的:
- ロジック・イン・メモリーデバイスの活性チャネル材料として,大面積のモリブデン・ディスルファイド (MoS2) を調査する.
- フローティングゲートフィールド効果トランジスタ (FGFET) を設計し,統合された論理およびメモリ機能を搭載する.
- これらの新しいデバイスアーキテクチャを使用して再構成可能な論理回路の実現可能性を実証します.
主な方法:
- 装置の製造のための大面積のMoS2フィルムの製造
- フローティングゲートフィールド効果トランジスタ (FGFET) の設計と特徴付け.
- FGFETの枠内で,NORゲートを含むプログラム可能な論理ゲートの実装とテスト.
主要な成果:
- FGFETの導電性を正確かつ継続的に調節することが証明された.
- MoS2ベースのFGFETを使用してプログラム可能なNORロジックゲートを成功裏に実装しました.
- より複雑なプログラム可能な論理機能を実現するために設計を拡張し,機能的な完全性を示しました.
結論:
- MoS2のような 原子的に薄い半導体は 低電力電子機器に 期待されています
- MoS2ベースのFGFETは,統合された論理とメモリで効率的なインメモリコンピューティングを可能にします.
- このアプローチはAIと機械学習のための 次世代のエネルギー効率の良い 電子ハードウェアの道を開きます
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