IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits • Vol 11
1.58-b FeFET-Based Ternary Neural Networks: Achieving Robust Compute-In-Memory With Weight-Input Transformations
January 2025 • Imtiaz Ahmed, Akul Malhotra, Revanth Koduru, Sumeet Kumar Gupta
Ternary weight neural networks (TWNs), with weights quantized to three states (−1, 0, and 1), have emerged as promising solutions for resource-constrained edge artificial intelligence (AI) platforms due to their high energy efficiency with acceptable inference accuracy. Further energy savings can be achieved with TWN accelerators utilizing techniques such as compute-in-memory (CiM) and scalable technologies such as ferroelectric transistors (FeFETs). Although the standard 1T-FeFET CiM design offers high den…