Towards In-Memory Computing: Arithmetic Operations on Real Memristors

Thore Kolms; Christine Lang; Andreas Waldner; Philipp Grothe; Jan Haase

doi:10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9254441

Towards In-Memory Computing: Arithmetic Operations on Real Memristors

Thore Kolms, Christine Lang, Andreas Waldner, Philipp Grothe, Jan Haase

Institute of Computer Engineering

Abstract

In-memory-computing is an emerging approach that aims to shift computational load away from CPUs. It does so by taking over simple calculations that can be performed in memory. Apart from improving performance for these operations, this also results in a lower energy consumption, effectively rendering this technique very suitable for embedded systems.Due to being variable as well as non-volatile resistors, memristors are capable of storing analog values. This renders them particularly useful for in-memory computing.This paper presents a prototypical implementation of analog calculations (addition, subtraction and multiplication), including a way of representing the value zero. The prototype shown is based on an ESP32 microcontroller and typical calculations currently take around 1μs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Number of pages	6
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	18.10.2020
Pages	2296-2301
Article number	9254441
ISBN (Print)	978-1-7281-5415-2, 978-1-7281-5413-8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7281-5414-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9254441
Publication status	Published - 18.10.2020
Event	46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society - Virtual, Singapore, Singapore Duration: 19.10.2020 → 21.10.2020 Conference number: 165032

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Kolms, T., Lang, C., Waldner, A., Grothe, P., & Haase, J. (2020). Towards In-Memory Computing: Arithmetic Operations on Real Memristors. In IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (pp. 2296-2301). Article 9254441 (IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference); Vol. 2020-October). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9254441

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Kolms, T, Lang, C, Waldner, A, Grothe, P & Haase, J 2020, Towards In-Memory Computing: Arithmetic Operations on Real Memristors. in IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society., 9254441, IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference), vol. 2020-October, IEEE, pp. 2296-2301, 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society , Singapore, Singapore, 19.10.20. https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9254441

Towards In-Memory Computing: Arithmetic Operations on Real Memristors. / Kolms, Thore; Lang, Christine; Waldner, Andreas et al.
IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. IEEE, 2020. p. 2296-2301 9254441 (IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference); Vol. 2020-October).

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