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    Pengcheng Xu Headshot
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    Pengcheng Xu
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Fraunhofer Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT
    Country
    Country
    Germany
    Author(s)
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    Pengcheng Xu
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Fraunhofer Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT
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    Lei Zhang
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Tsinghua University
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Fraunhofer Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT
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    David Borggreve
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Fraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies
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    Frank Vanselow
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Fraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies
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    Ralf Brederlow
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Technical University of Munich
    Abstract

    This work proposes a charge-transfer-based crossbar, where the accumulation is performed by counting the transferred charges into capacitors. Thanks to the time-discrete property of the charge transfer, the entire proposed design is almost fully dynamic excepting an auxiliary amplifier and very insensitive to parasitic wire resistance. In addition, adaptive reference and body-biasing techniques are used to realize a self-adjustable operating range for neural network computations and stable computation behavior over process corners, respectively. A computation and power efficiency of 1024GOP/s and 78TOPS/w is achieved for computation with 1-bit inputs, 1-bit weight, and 4-bit output.

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    • A Dynamic Charge-Transfer-Based Crossbar with Low Sensitivity to Parasitic Wire-Resistance (application/pdf)