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ArticleNature communications2018

Biological plausibility and stochasticity in scalable VO

Wei Yi, Kenneth K Tsang, Stephen K Lam, Xiwei Bai, Jack A Crowell, Elias A Flores

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 118 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

118 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Wei YiHRL Laboratories, 3011 Malibu Canyon Rd, Malibu, CA, 90265, USA. wyi@hrl.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4841-3600
Kenneth K TsangHRL Laboratories, 3011 Malibu Canyon Rd, Malibu, CA, 90265, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0272-1579
Stephen K LamHRL Laboratories, 3011 Malibu Canyon Rd, Malibu, CA, 90265, USA.
Xiwei BaiHRL Laboratories, 3011 Malibu Canyon Rd, Malibu, CA, 90265, USA.
Jack A CrowellHRL Laboratories, 3011 Malibu Canyon Rd, Malibu, CA, 90265, USA.
Elias A FloresHRL Laboratories, 3011 Malibu Canyon Rd, Malibu, CA, 90265, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuromorphic networks of artificial neurons and synapses can solve computationally hard problems with energy efficiencies unattainable for von Neumann architectures. For image processing, silicon neuromorphic processors outperform graphic processing units in energy efficiency by a large margin, but deliver much lower chip-scale throughput. The performance-efficiency dilemma for silicon processors may not be overcome by Moore's law scaling of silicon transistors. Scalable and biomimetic active memristor neurons and passive memristor synapses form a self-sufficient basis for a transistorless neural network. However, previous demonstrations of memristor neurons only showed simple integrate-and-fire behaviors and did not reveal the rich dynamics and computational complexity of biological neurons. Here we report that neurons built with nanoscale vanadium dioxide active memristors possess all three classes of excitability and most of the known biological neuronal dynamics, and are intrinsically stochastic. With the favorable size and power scaling, there is a path toward an all-memristor neuromorphic cortical computer.

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Action PotentialsBiomimeticsElectric CapacitanceNeuronsOxidesStochastic ProcessesVanadium CompoundsOxidesVanadium Compoundsvanadium dioxide

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PMID30405124
PMCPMC6220189

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