NEUROTEC I: Neuro-inspired Artificial Intelligence Technologies for the Electronics of the Future
Melvin Galicia1, Stephan Menzel8, Farhad Merchant1, Maximilian Müller2, Hsin-Yu Chen8, Qing-Tai Zhao9, Felix Cüppers10, Abdur R. Jalil10, Qi Shu10, Peter Schüffelgen10, Gregor Mussler9, Carsten Funck3, Christian Lanius5, Stefan Wiefels8, Moritz von Witzleben3, Christopher Bengel3, Nils Kopperberg3, Tobias Ziegler3, R. Walied Ahmad8, Alexander Krüger10, Leticia Pöhls5, Regina Dittmann8, Susanne Hoffmann-Eifert10, Vikas Rana10, Detlev Grützmacher9,10, Matthias Wuttig2,10, Dirk Wouters3, Andrei Vescan4, Tobias Gemmeke5, Joachim Knoch6, Max Lemme7, Rainer Leupers1 and Rainer Waser3,8,10
1Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems
2Institute of Physics, Physics of Novel Materials
3Institute of Materials in Electrical Engineering II
4Compound Semiconductor Technology
5Institute of Integrated Digital Systems and Circuit Design
6Institute of Semiconductor Electronics
7Chair of Electronic Devices, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
8Peter-Grünberg Institute-7
9Peter-Grünberg Institute-9
10Peter-Grünberg Institute-10, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH and JARA-Fit, Germany
ABSTRACT
The field of neuromorphic computing is approaching an era of rapid adoption driven by the urgent need of a substitute for the von Neumann computing architecture. NEUROTEC I: ”Neuro-inspired Artificial Intelligence Technologies for the Electronics of the Future” project is an initiative sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF for its initials in German), that aims to effectively advance the foundations for the utilization and exploitation of neuromorphic computing. NEUROTEC I stands at its successful ”final stage” driven by the collaboration from more than 8 institutes from the Jülich Research Center and the RWTH Aachen University, as well as collaboration from several high-tech industry partners. The NEUROTEC I project considers the field interplay among materials, circuits, design and simulation tools. This paper provides an overview of the project’s overall structure and discusses the scientific achievements of its individual activities.
