no code implementations • 18 Apr 2023 • Mohammed E. Elbtity, Brendan Reidy, Md Hasibul Amin, Ramtin Zand
To leverage the strengths of TPUs for convolutional layers and IMAC circuits for dense layers, we propose a unified learning algorithm that incorporates mixed-precision training techniques to mitigate potential accuracy drops when deploying models on the TPU-IMAC architecture.
no code implementations • 24 May 2021 • Mohammed Elbtity, Abhishek Singh, Brendan Reidy, Xiaochen Guo, Ramtin Zand
In this paper, we develop an in-memory analog computing (IMAC) architecture realizing both synaptic behavior and activation functions within non-volatile memory arrays.
no code implementations • 22 Sep 2020 • Brendan Reidy, Golareh Jalilvand, Tengfei Jiang, Ramtin Zand
Results obtained show that the CNN model with optimized complexity, dropout, and data augmentation can achieve a classification accuracy comparable to that of a human expert.
no code implementations • 1 Jun 2020 • Brendan Reidy, Ramtin Zand
In this paper, the intrinsic physical characteristics of spin-orbit torque (SOT) magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) devices are leveraged to realize sigmoidal neurons in neuromorphic architectures.