TY - JOUR
T1 - Stochastic electronics : a neuro-inspired design paradigm for integrated circuits
AU - Hamilton, Tara Julia
AU - Afshar, Saeed
AU - Schaik, André van
AU - Tapson, Jonathan
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - As advances in integrated circuit (IC) fabrication technology reduce feature sizes to dimensions on the order of nanometers, IC designers are facing many of the problems that evolution has had to overcome in order to perform meaningful and accurate computations in biological neural circuits. In this paper, we explore the current state of IC technology including the many new and exciting opportunities “beyond CMOS.” We review the role of noise in both biological and engineered systems and discuss how “stochastic facilitation” can be used to perform useful and precise computation. We explore nondeterministic methodologies for computation in hardware and introduce the concept of stochastic electronics (SE); a new way to design circuits and increase performance in highly noisy and mismatched fabrication environments. This approach is illustrated with several circuit examples whose results demonstrate its exciting potential.
AB - As advances in integrated circuit (IC) fabrication technology reduce feature sizes to dimensions on the order of nanometers, IC designers are facing many of the problems that evolution has had to overcome in order to perform meaningful and accurate computations in biological neural circuits. In this paper, we explore the current state of IC technology including the many new and exciting opportunities “beyond CMOS.” We review the role of noise in both biological and engineered systems and discuss how “stochastic facilitation” can be used to perform useful and precise computation. We explore nondeterministic methodologies for computation in hardware and introduce the concept of stochastic electronics (SE); a new way to design circuits and increase performance in highly noisy and mismatched fabrication environments. This approach is illustrated with several circuit examples whose results demonstrate its exciting potential.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/544982
U2 - 10.1109/JPROC.2014.2310713
DO - 10.1109/JPROC.2014.2310713
M3 - Article
SN - 0018-9219
VL - 102
SP - 843
EP - 859
JO - Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
JF - Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IS - 5
M1 - 6785952
ER -