一个CMOS兼容的基于振荡的VO2 晶片机解决器
Olivier Maher1,2, Manuel Jiménez3, Corentin Delacour4
1IBM Research Europe - Zurich, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Zürich, Switzerland. OGM@zurich.ibm.com.
Nature communications
|April 18, 2024
概括
使用二氧化纳米级振荡器的相位编码振荡神经网络可以解决复杂的优化问题. 这些新型系统提供超低功耗和快速计算,超越了加速并行计算的当前技术.
科学领域:
- 材料科学 材料科学 材料科学
- 计算神经科学是一种神经科学.
- 纳米技术 纳米技术
背景情况:
- 金属氧化物半导体技术在复杂的优化和功率效率方面面临着局限.
- 振荡神经网络为先进的计算提供了一个有希望的替代方案.
- 二氧化 (VO2) 纳米级振荡器为神经形态计算提供了独特的特性.
研究的目的:
- 研究阶段编码振荡神经网络在解决复杂优化问题的能力.
- 展示纳米尺度二氧化振荡器在平台上的应用,用于解决非确定性多项式时间 (NP) 复杂性问题.
- 评估这些新型计算系统的性能,功率效率和可扩展性.
主要方法:
- 使用纳米尺度的二氧化 (VO2) 振荡器集成到平台上.
- 基于Ising哈密尔顿公式设计多达九个横杆VO2振荡器的电路,用于问题映射.
- 使用亚波注入锁定技术来二元化振荡器溶液空间.
- 分析组合优化问题的收行为,如图形配色,Max-cut和Max-3SAT.
主要成果:
- 成功演示了使用合的VO2设备解决组合优化问题的方法.
- 观察到,连接密度高 (η > 0.4) 的图表表现出更快的趋同到最佳解决方案.
- 在25个振荡周期内实现系统稳定.
- 突出超低功耗和快速计算性能.
结论:
- 用VO2纳米级振荡器进行相位编码的振荡神经网络对于解决NP难度优化问题的有效.
- 与现有技术相比,这些系统显示出更高的功率效率和扩展潜力.
- 这些发现为通过大规模互连的振荡器网络加速并行计算铺平了道路.
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