Efficient and reconfigurable reservoir computing to realize alphabet pronunciation recognition based on processing-in-memory

With its high energy efficiency and ultra-high speed, processing-in-memory (PIM) technology is promising to enable high performance in Reservoir Computing (RC) systems. In this work, we demonstrate an RC system based on an as-fabricated PIM chip platform. The RC system extracts input into a high-dim...

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Main Authors: Liu, Shuang, Wu, Yuancong, Xiong, Canlong, Liu, Yihe, Yang, Jing, Yu, Q., Hu, S. G., Chen, Tupei, Liu, Y.
Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153571
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Summary:With its high energy efficiency and ultra-high speed, processing-in-memory (PIM) technology is promising to enable high performance in Reservoir Computing (RC) systems. In this work, we demonstrate an RC system based on an as-fabricated PIM chip platform. The RC system extracts input into a high-dimensional space through the nonlinear characteristic and randomly connected reservoir states inside the PIM-based RC. To examine the system, nonlinear dynamic system predictions, including nonlinear auto-regressive moving average equation of order 10 driven time series, isolated spoken digit recognition task, and recognition of alphabet pronunciation, are carried out. The system saves about 50% energy and requires much fewer operations as compared with the RC system implemented with digital logic. This paves a pathway for the RC algorithm application in PIM with lower power consumption and less hardware resource required.