The EU-funded FET-Open project SpinAge started officially on October 1st. 2020. This project is coordinated by Aarhus University and INL participates with activities from the combined effort of the Spintronics research group and Systems Engineering group. The goal of SpinAge is to demonstrate a novel neuromorphic computing system which brings together several cutting-edge technologies to achieve an improvement in performance (operation/sec/Watt/cm3) over current systems by at least 4 orders of magnitude. The current implementation of the neuromorphic computing systems (NCS) using Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technologies has 5-6 orders of magnitude lower performance compared to the brain. As a result, even state-of-the-art NCSs based on CMOS has a very small number of neurons and are limited in the complexity of the problems that they can be trained to solve. SpinAge aims at bringing us closer to mimicking the brain with an electronic system. To do so, SpinAge will combine in the same system technologies that so far have been developed separately and were unable to reach this goal on an individual level. The ambitious neuromorphic computing system will include spintronic components (acting like neurons and synapses), memristors (acting as non-volatile synaptic weights), CMOS (system control and input/output interface) and photonics components (efficient […]
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