Wang Manman, Yuan Yuhai, Jiang Yanfeng
Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Internet of Things (IoTs), Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China.
Micromachines (Basel). 2023 Sep 23;14(10):1820. doi: 10.3390/mi14101820.
As the third-generation neural network, the spiking neural network (SNN) has become one of the most promising neuromorphic computing paradigms to mimic brain neural networks over the past decade. The SNN shows many advantages in performing classification and recognition tasks in the artificial intelligence field. In the SNN, the communication between the pre-synapse neuron (PRE) and the post-synapse neuron (POST) is conducted by the synapse. The corresponding synaptic weights are dependent on both the spiking patterns of the PRE and the POST, which are updated by spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) rules. The emergence and growing maturity of spintronic devices present a new approach for constructing the SNN. In the paper, a novel SNN is proposed, in which both the synapse and the neuron are mimicked with the spin transfer torque magnetic tunnel junction (STT-MTJ) device. The synaptic weight is presented by the conductance of the MTJ device. The mapping of the probabilistic spiking nature of the neuron to the stochastic switching behavior of the MTJ with thermal noise is presented based on the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation. In this way, a simplified SNN is mimicked with the MTJ device. The function of the mimicked SNN is verified by a handwritten digit recognition task based on the MINIST database.
作为第三代神经网络,脉冲神经网络(SNN)在过去十年中已成为模拟大脑神经网络最具前景的神经形态计算范式之一。SNN在人工智能领域执行分类和识别任务方面具有诸多优势。在SNN中,突触前神经元(PRE)和突触后神经元(POST)之间的通信由突触进行。相应的突触权重取决于PRE和POST的脉冲发放模式,并通过脉冲时间依赖可塑性(STDP)规则进行更新。自旋电子器件的出现和日益成熟为构建SNN提供了一种新方法。本文提出了一种新型SNN,其中突触和神经元均由自旋转移矩磁隧道结(STT-MTJ)器件模拟。突触权重由MTJ器件的电导表示。基于随机朗道-里夫希茨-吉尔伯特(LLG)方程,展示了神经元的概率脉冲发放特性到具有热噪声的MTJ的随机开关行为的映射。通过这种方式,用MTJ器件模拟了一个简化的SNN。基于MINIST数据库的手写数字识别任务验证了模拟SNN的功能。