Tunable Synaptic Working Memory with Volatile Memristive Devices

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Autores principales: Ricci, Saverio, Kappel, David, Tetzlaff, Christian, Ielmini, Daniele, Covi, Erika
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Publicado: 2023
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author Ricci, Saverio
Kappel, David
Tetzlaff, Christian
Ielmini, Daniele
Covi, Erika
author_facet Ricci, Saverio
Kappel, David
Tetzlaff, Christian
Ielmini, Daniele
Covi, Erika
contents Different real-world cognitive tasks evolve on different relevant timescales. Processing these tasks requires memory mechanisms able to match their specific time constants. In particular, the working memory utilizes mechanisms that span orders of magnitudes of timescales, from milliseconds to seconds or even minutes. This plentitude of timescales is an essential ingredient of working memory tasks like visual or language processing. This degree of flexibility is challenging in analog computing hardware because it requires the integration of several reconfigurable capacitors of different size. Emerging volatile memristive devices present a compact and appealing solution to reproduce reconfigurable temporal dynamics in a neuromorphic network. We present a demonstration of working memory using a silver-based memristive device whose key parameters, retention time and switching probability, can be electrically tuned and adapted to the task at hand. First, we demonstrate the principles of working memory in a small scale hardware to execute an associative memory task. Then, we use the experimental data in two larger scale simulations, the first featuring working memory in a biological environment, the second demonstrating associative symbolic working memory.
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spellingShingle Tunable Synaptic Working Memory with Volatile Memristive Devices
Ricci, Saverio
Kappel, David
Tetzlaff, Christian
Ielmini, Daniele
Covi, Erika
Emerging Technologies
Different real-world cognitive tasks evolve on different relevant timescales. Processing these tasks requires memory mechanisms able to match their specific time constants. In particular, the working memory utilizes mechanisms that span orders of magnitudes of timescales, from milliseconds to seconds or even minutes. This plentitude of timescales is an essential ingredient of working memory tasks like visual or language processing. This degree of flexibility is challenging in analog computing hardware because it requires the integration of several reconfigurable capacitors of different size. Emerging volatile memristive devices present a compact and appealing solution to reproduce reconfigurable temporal dynamics in a neuromorphic network. We present a demonstration of working memory using a silver-based memristive device whose key parameters, retention time and switching probability, can be electrically tuned and adapted to the task at hand. First, we demonstrate the principles of working memory in a small scale hardware to execute an associative memory task. Then, we use the experimental data in two larger scale simulations, the first featuring working memory in a biological environment, the second demonstrating associative symbolic working memory.
title Tunable Synaptic Working Memory with Volatile Memristive Devices
topic Emerging Technologies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14691