화학공학소재연구정보센터
Solid-State Electronics, Vol.89, 17-21, 2013
Preliminary results on low power sigmoid neuron transistor response in 28 nm high-k metal gate Fully Depleted SOI technology
The purpose of this paper is to describe a preliminary approach to achieve a sigmoid neuron transistor response using the 28 nm high-k metal gate Fully Depleted SOI (FDSOI) technology. It is well known that a neural network is an ambitious way to handle signal and/or data flow. Of interest also is the 'learning phase' of the proposed structure. However, the major difficulty of such structures, where the elementary device is a "Neuron Design (ND)" is in their integration. The elementary ND is based upon a circuit with at least ten interconnected CMOS transistors in order to obtain a sigmoid response activation function (in this example) with multiple inputs typically as per the McCulloch and Pitts model. Given that a large number of NDs are required to build an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), the power consumption of such a structure is a key topic that is also addressed. Another open question concerns the dispersion response due to process variability. This study reports on a new single undoped Formal Neuron Transistor (NT) solution. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.