Collaborative Research: SHF: Small: RUI: CMOS+X: Honey-ReRAM Enabled 3D Neuromorphic Accelerator

合作研究：SHF：小型：RUI：CMOS X：Honey-ReRAM 支持的 3D 神经形态加速器

• 批准号: 2247343
• 负责人: Jinhui Wang
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of South Alabama
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2247343&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; SHF; Small; RUI

Current computing systems are facing significant challenges including extremely high energy demand, tremendous consumption of nonrenewable materials, environmental and health issues by electronic waste, and lack of technologies to improve system performance by integration of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) microchips with emerging device technologies (denoted X) – “CMOS+X”. This project will address these challenges by exploring an innovative technology to integrate CMOS periphery circuits with a novel memory technology - natural organic honey based resistive switching random access memory (honey-ReRAM) for a new brain-inspired neuromorphic computing system. The prototyped “CMOS + honey-ReRAM” computing system is promising to promote high performance, energy efficient, and sustainable in-memory computing capability for many high impact domains such as engineering, social science, national health, and defense. In addition, the proposed education activities offer unique training opportunities for underrepresented researchers including female, African American, and Native American students.This project targets to explore innovations in device fabrication and system integration technologies to optimize honey-ReRAM devices, establish the feasibility of 3D integration of CMOS circuits with honey-ReRAM arrays, and prototype a CMOS + honey-ReRAM enabled neuromorphic accelerator, an essential neural network hardware component for data processing in a vast range of devices in computing and artificial intelligence. The honey-ReRAM will have highly reproducible memory characteristics, thermal stability, long-term reliability, low-cost, as well as being sustainable. The honey ReRAM will also utilize an eco-friendly synthesis process and device manufacture. A novel three-dimensional (3D) architecture and fabrication technology with a formal design flow will be developed to ensure the compatibility of combining CMOS circuitry with honey-ReRAM arrays by a heterogeneous integration on the microchip. Furthermore, this research will provide a solution to the incompatibility problem in the integration between CMOS and X and effectively accelerate the development and application of CMOS+X technologies for system-level improvements in computing. This project is jointly funded by the Software and Hardware Foundations (SHF) program in the Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) division, and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

当前的计算系统面临着巨大的挑战，包括极高的能源需求，非可再生材料的大量消耗，通过电子废物对环境和健康问题的大量消耗，以及缺乏通过将补充金属氧化物半导体（CMOS）微芯片与Emerging Device技术（Emerged Device Indecies（Emerged Device）技术（表示X）的整合整合来改善系统性能的技术（表示）。该项目将通过探索创新的技术来解决这些挑战，以将CMOS外围电路与新型的记忆技术（天然有机蜂蜜基于自然的电阻转换随机接入记忆（Honey-Reram）），用于新的受脑启发的神经形态计算系统。原型的“ CMOS + Honey-Reram”计算系统有望促进许多高影响力领域（例如工程，社会科学，国家健康和国防）的高性能，节能和可持续的内存计算能力。此外，拟议的教育活动还为包括女性，非洲裔美国人和美洲原住民学生在内的代表性不足的研究人员提供了独特的培训机会。该项目的目标是探索设备制造和系统集成技术的创新，以优化蜂蜜 - reram设备，并建立3D CMOS Circuts与蜂蜜型和原子型型蜂蜜 +蜂蜜疗法的3D整合的耐心性，用于数据处理的神经元网络硬件组件在计算和人工智能中的各种设备中。蜂蜜招呼将具有高度可再现的记忆特性，热稳定性，长期可靠性，低成本以及可持续性。 Honey Reram还将利用环保的合成过程和设备制造。将开发一种具有正式设计流的新型三维（3D）结构和制造技术，以确保通过微芯片上的异质集成将CMOS电路与蜂蜜reram阵列相结合的兼容性。此外，这项研究将为CMOS和X之间的集成中的不兼容问题提供解决方案，并有效加速CMOS+X技术的开发和应用，以用于系统级别的计算改进。该项目由计算与通信基金会（CCF）部门的软件和硬件基金会（SHF）计划共同资助，并且既定的计划刺激竞争研究（EPSCOR）。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的智力和更广泛影响的评估来审查Criteria，通过评估来通过评估来获得支持。