IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits • Vol 9 • No 2
XNOR-VSH: A Valley-Spin Hall Effect-Based Compact and Energy-Efficient Synaptic Crossbar Array for Binary Neural Networks
September 2023 • Karam Cho, Akul Malhotra, Sumeet Kumar Gupta
Binary neural networks (BNNs) have shown an immense promise for resource-constrained edge artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. However, prior designs typically either require two bit-cells to encode signed weights leading to an area overhead, or require complex peripheral circuitry. In this article, we address this issue by proposing a compact and low power in-memory computing (IMC) of XNOR-based dot products featuring signed weight encoding in a single bit-cell. Our approach utilizes valley-spin Hall (VSH) eff…