Impact of HKMG and FDSOI FeFET drain current variation in processing-in-memory architectures
Impact of HKMG and FDSOI FeFET drain current variation in processing-in-memory architectures
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DOI:
10.1557/s43578-021-00393-1
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发表时间:
2021-09
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Nathan Eli Miller;Zheng Wang;Saurabh Dash;A. Khan;S. Mukhopadhyay
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作者:
Nathan Eli Miller;Zheng Wang;Saurabh Dash;A. Khan;S. Mukhopadhyay
In this study, we analyze the impact of drain current (IDS\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$ I_{{{\text{DS}}}} $$\end{document}) variation in 28 nm high-K metal-gate and 22 nm fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator Ferroelectric FET devices on processing-in-memory (PIM) deep neural network (DNN) accelerators. When performing repeated read operations on several devices at various read frequencies and under various biasing and programming conditions, non-Normal variation in IDS\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$ I_{{{\text{DS}}}} $$\end{document} is observed. Device-circuit co-analysis is used to emulate PIM performance subject to noise when classifying images. Marginal degradation is observed in Fashion-MNIST classification accuracy using LeNet-5, and more significant degradation is observed in CIFAR-10 classification accuracy using MobileNetV2. Variation-aware training is shown to fully recover minor drops in LeNet-5 accuracy but becomes difficult for large workloads like MobileNetV2. We demonstrate that IDS\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$ I_{{{\text{DS}}}} $$\end{document} variation in individual FeFETs over many read cycles is not prohibitive to designing DNN accelerators with small workloads, but advanced design techniques are required to mitigate error for larger workloads.