Functionally scaled computing technology: From novel devices to non-von Neumann architectures and algorithms for a connected intelligent world

Project Information

Fun-COMP

Grant agreement ID: 780848

DOI 10.3030/780848

Project closed

EC signature date 23 November 2017

Start date 1 March 2018

End date 31 August 2022

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost € 3 996 951,25

EU contribution € 3 996 951,25

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
United Kingdom

Deliverables

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)

Hardware demonstrator for computing-in-memory using N-vN device arrays

D4.2 Hardware demonstrator for computing-in-memory using N-vN device arrays (M40)

Hardware demonstrator consisting of a photonic RC network incorporating phase-change elements and with self-learning Hebbian capabilities

D3.2 Hardware demonstrator consisting of a photonic RC network incorporating phase-change elements and with self-learning Hebbian capabilities (M42)

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (8)

Second cross-disciplinary training session and associated training webinars/videos

D5.8 Second cross-disciplinary training session and associated training webinars/videos (M18)

Website for access by general public made live

D5.1 Website for access by general public made live (M2)

Web-based report and animations of N-vN device simulations

D1.5 Web-based report and animations of N-vN device simulations (selected results from T1.5 hosted on public pages of project website) (M18)

Final event

D511 Final communication and dissemination event M45

Open technology workshop

D510 Open technology workshop M26

Open-source design kit online

D5.9 Open-source design kit online (M24)

Article published in popular scientific/technical magazine/website

D5.4 Article published in popular scientific/technical magazine/website (M18)

First cross-disciplinary training session and associated training webinars/videos

D5.7 First cross-disciplinary training session and associated training webinars/videos (M9)

Documents, reports (8)

Mixed-precision memcomputing: A new approach for fast energy-efficient computation

D4.4 Mixed-precision memcomputing: A new approach for fast energy-efficient computation (public report covering concepts and general findings from T4.2) (M30)

Report on fabrication and performance of first-generation basic N-vN unit-cell devices

D1.1 Report on fabrication and performance of first-generation basic N-vN unit-cell devices (web-hosted public report covering concepts and general results from T1.1) (M9)

Public summary of mid-project results

D5.2 Public summary of mid-project results (M24)

Report on concepts of, and fabrication methods for, N-vN cell arrays from T2.1 and T2.2) (M24)

D2.1 Report on concepts of, and fabrication methods for, N-vN cell arrays (web-hosted public report covering concepts and general results from T2.1 and T2.2) (M24)

A new approach to reservoir computing

D3.1 A new approach to reservoir computing (public report covering concepts and general findings) (M30)

Public summary of end-of-project results

D53 Public summary of endofproject results M48

Extended unit-cell with WDM capability demonstrated

D1.2 Extended unit-cell with WDM capability demonstrated (web-hosted public report covering concepts and general results from T1.2) (M18)

Correlations in big-data extracted using computing in memory

D4.1 Correlations in big-data extracted using computing in memory approaches (public report covering concepts and general findings from T4.1) (M30)

Publications

Conference proceedings (12)

Sub-wavelength plasmonic-enhanced phase-change memory

Author(s): Emanuele Gemo, Santiago García-Cuevas Carrillo, Joaquin Faneca, Carlota Ruíz de Galarreta, Hasan Hayat, Nathan Youngblood, Anna Baldycheva, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran, C. David Wright
Published in: Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures X, Issue 112891E, 2020, Page(s) 50, ISBN 9781510633421
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2546031

Neuromorphic information processing using silicon photonics

Author(s): Peter Bienstman, Joni Dambre, Andrew Katumba, Matthias Freiberger, Floris Laporte, Alessio Lugnan, Stijn Sackesyn, Chonghuai Ma
Published in: Proceedings Volume 11081, Active Photonic Platforms XI, Issue 5 September 2019, 2019, Page(s) 110811i
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2524707

Silicon Photonics Neuromorphic Computing and its Application to Telecommunications (Invited)

Author(s): Andrew Katumba, Xin Yin, Joni Dambre, Peter Bienstman
Published in: 2018 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Issue 2018, 2018, Page(s) 1-3, ISBN 978-1-5386-4862-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecoc.2018.8535262

Realization of functional nanophotonic circuits by hybrid 2D-3D integration

Author(s): Wolfram H. P. Pernice
Published in: Proc. SPIE 11292, Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics XIII, 2020, Page(s) 112920L
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2545593

Artificial photonic neural networks

Author(s): Wolfram H. P. Pernice
Published in: Proceedings Volume 11284, Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XXII, 2020, Page(s) 1128409
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2545601

On-chip Phase Change Optical Matrix Multiplication Core

Author(s): Xuan Li, Nathan Youngblood, Wen Zhou, Johannes Feldmann, Jacob Swett, Samarth Aggarwal, A. Sebastian, C. David Wright, Wolfram Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran
Published in: 2020 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2020, Page(s) 7.5.1-7.5.4, ISBN 978-1-7281-8888-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iedm13553.2020.9372052

Integrated photonic delay-lasers for reservoir computing

Author(s): Guy Van der Sande, Krishan Harkhoe, Andrew Katumba, Peter Bienstman, Guy Verschaffelt
Published in: Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXVIII, Issue 112740D, 2020, Page(s) 11, ISBN 9781510633124
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2550576

Silicon Photonics Reservoir Computing at 32 Gbit/S

Author(s): Peter Bienstman, Joni Dambre, Andrew Katumba, Matthias Freiberger, Floris Laporte, Alessio Lugnan, Stijn Sackesyn, Chonghuai Ma, Emmanuel Gooskens
Published in: 5th Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Brain-Inspired Information Processing, Issue 29-31 July, 2019, 2019
Publisher: www.gsds.uni-konstanz.de

Stable and Repeatable Multilevel Storage Using Phase Change Photonics

Author(s): Xuan Li, Nathan Youngblood, Carlos A. Ríos Ocampo, Zengguang Cheng, Wolfram Pernice, C. David Wright and Harish Bhaskaran
Published in: MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit, November 25-30, 2018, Issue 2018, 2018, Page(s) Novel Photonic and Plasmonic Materials Enabling New Functionalities 04.07.09
Publisher: Materials Research Society

Integrated Phase-change Photonics: A Strategy for Merging Communication and Computing

Author(s): C David Wright, Harish Bhaskaran, Wolfram. H. P. Pernice, Santiago G-C Carrillo, Emanuele Gemo, Anna Baldycheva, Zengguang Cheng, Xuan Li, Carlos Rios, Nathan Youngblood, Johannes Feldmann, Nico Gruhler, Matthias Stegmaier
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2019, Issue 2019, 2019, Page(s) M1D.3, ISBN 978-1-943580-53-8
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2019.m1d.3

In-memory computing using electrical and photonic memory devices

Author(s): Abu Sebastian
Published in: 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), Issue 23-27 June 2019, 2019, Page(s) JSI-1.1, ISBN 978-1-7281-0469-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2019.8871822

Photontorch: Simulation and Optimization of Large Photonic Circuits Using the Deep Learning Framework PyTorch

Author(s): Floris Laporte, Joni Dambre, Peter Bienstman
Published in: 2019 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM), Issue 2019, 2019, Page(s) 1-2, ISBN 978-1-7281-0597-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/phosst.2019.8794941

Peer reviewed articles (29)

Experimental investigation of silicon and silicon nitride platforms for phase-change photonic in-memory computing

Author(s): Xuan Li, Nathan Youngblood, Zengguang Cheng, Santiago Garcia-Cuevas Carrillo, Emanuele Gemo, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, C. David Wright, Harish Bhaskaran
Published in: Optica, Issue 7/3, 2020, Page(s) 218, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: OSA Publishing
DOI: 10.1364/optica.379228

A plasmonically enhanced route to faster and more energy-efficient phase-change integrated photonic memory and computing devices

Author(s): E. Gemo, J. Faneca, S. G.-C. Carrillo, A. Baldycheva, W. H. P. Pernice, H. Bhaskaran, C. D. Wright
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 129/11, 2021, Page(s) 110902, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0042962

Behavioral modeling of integrated phase-change photonic devices for neuromorphic computing applications

Author(s): Santiago G.-C. Carrillo, Emanuele Gemo, Xuan Li, Nathan Youngblood, Andrew Katumba, Peter Bienstman, Wolfram Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran, C. David Wright
Published in: APL Materials, Issue 7/9, 2019, Page(s) 091113, ISSN 2166-532X
Publisher: AIP
DOI: 10.1063/1.5111840

Performance characteristics of phase-change integrated silicon nitride photonic devices in the O and C telecommunications bands

Author(s): Joaquin Faneca, Santiago Garcia-Cuevas Carrillo, Emanuele Gemo, Carlota Ruiz de Galarreta, Thalía Domínguez Bucio, Frederic Y. Gardes, Harish Bhaskaran, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, C. David Wright, Anna Baldycheva
Published in: Optical Materials Express, Issue 10/8, 2020, Page(s) 1778, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.10.001778

Integrated phase-change photonic devices and systems

Author(s): C. David Wright, Harish Bhaskaran, Wolfram H.P. Pernice
Published in: MRS Bulletin, Issue 44/09, 2019, Page(s) 721-727, ISSN 0883-7694
Publisher: Materials Research Society
DOI: 10.1557/mrs.2019.203

Photonic neuromorphic information processing and reservoir computing

Author(s): A. Lugnan, A. Katumba, F. Laporte, M. Freiberger, S. Sackesyn, C. Ma, E. Gooskens, J. Dambre, P. Bienstman
Published in: APL Photonics, Issue 5/2, 2020, Page(s) 020901, ISSN 2378-0967
Publisher: AIP
DOI: 10.1063/1.5129762

Parallel convolutional processing using an integrated photonic tensor core

Author(s): J. Feldmann, N. Youngblood, M. Karpov, H. Gehring, X. Li, M. Stappers, M. Le Gallo, X. Fu, A. Lukashchuk, A. S. Raja, J. Liu, C. D. Wright, A. Sebastian, T. J. Kippenberg, W. H. P. Pernice, H. Bhaskaran
Published in: Nature, Issue 589/7840, 2021, Page(s) 52-58, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-03070-1

Addressing limited weight resolution in a fully optical neuromorphic reservoir computing readout

Author(s): Chonghuai Ma, Floris Laporte, Joni Dambre, Peter Bienstman
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11/1, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82720-4

Simple technique for determining the refractive index of phase-change materials using near-infrared reflectometry

Author(s): E. Gemo, S. V. Kesava, C. Ruiz De Galarreta, L. Trimby, S. García-Cuevas Carrillo, M. Riede, A. Baldycheva, A. Alexeev, C. D. Wright
Published in: Optical Materials Express, Issue 10/7, 2020, Page(s) 1675, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.395353

Roadmap on emerging hardware and technology for machine learning

Author(s): Karl Berggren, Qiangfei Xia, Konstantin K Likharev, Dmitri B Strukov, Hao Jiang, Thomas Mikolajick, Damien Querlioz, Martin Salinga, John R Erickson, Shuang Pi, Feng Xiong, Peng Lin, Can Li, Yu Chen, Shisheng Xiong, Brian D Hoskins, Matthew W Daniels, Advait Madhavan, James A Liddle, Jabez J McClelland, Yuchao Yang, Jennifer Rupp, Stephen S Nonnenmann, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Nanbo Gong, Miguel Angel La
Published in: Nanotechnology, Issue 32/1, 2021, Page(s) 012002, ISSN 0957-4484
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/aba70f

Phase-change memtransistive synapses for mixed-plasticity neural computations

Author(s): Syed Ghazi Sarwat , Benedikt Kersting, Timoleon Moraitis , Vara Prasad Jonnalagadda and Abu Sebastian
Published in: Nature Nanotechnology, 2022, ISSN 1748-3387
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-022-01095-3

Demonstrating delay-based reservoir computing using a compact photonic integrated chip

Author(s): Krishan Harkhoe, Guy Verschaffelt, Andrew Katumba, Peter Bienstman, Guy Van der Sande
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 28/3, 2020, Page(s) 3086, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.382556

Integrated 256 Cell Photonic Phase-Change Memory With 512-Bit Capacity

Author(s): Johannes Feldmann, Nathan Youngblood, Xuan Li, C. David Wright, Harish Bhaskaran, Wolfram H. P. Pernice
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Issue 26/2, 2020, Page(s) 1-7, ISSN 1077-260X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2019.2956871

Fully embedded photonic crystal cavity with Q=06 million fabricated within a full-process CMOS multiproject wafer

Author(s): Delphin Dodane, Jérôme Bourderionnet, Sylvain Combrié, Alfredo de Rossi
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 26/16, 2018, Page(s) 20868, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.26.020868

Controlled switching of phase-change materials by evanescent-field coupling in integrated photonics [Invited]

Author(s): Carlos Rios, Matthias Stegmaier, Zengguang Cheng, Nathan Youngblood, C. David Wright, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran
Published in: Optical Materials Express, Issue 8/9, 2018, Page(s) 2455, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.8.002455

Device-Level Photonic Memories and Logic Applications Using Phase-Change Materials

Author(s): Zengguang Cheng, Carlos Ríos, Nathan Youngblood, C. David Wright, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 30/32, 2018, Page(s) 1802435, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201802435

A Neuromorphic Silicon Photonics Nonlinear Equalizer For Optical Communications With Intensity Modulation and Direct Detection

Author(s): Andrew Katumba, Xin Yin, Joni Dambre, Peter Bienstman
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 37/10, 2019, Page(s) 2232-2239, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2019.2900568

Reconfigurable Nanophotonic Cavities with Nonvolatile Response

Author(s): Jan von Keitz, Johannes Feldmann, Nico Gruhler, Carlos Ríos, C. David Wright, Harish Bhaskaran, Wolfram H. P. Pernice
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 5/11, 2018, Page(s) 4644-4649, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b01127

Engineering Interface-Dependent Photoconductivity in Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 Nanoscale Devices

Author(s): Syed Ghazi Sarwat, Nathan Youngblood, Yat-Yin Au, Jan A. Mol, C. David Wright, Harish Bhaskaran
Published in: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Issue 10/51, 2018, Page(s) 44906-44914, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b17602

Fast and reliable storage using a 5  bit, nonvolatile photonic memory cell

Author(s): Xuan Li, Nathan Youngblood, Carlos Ríos, Zengguang Cheng, C. David Wright, Wolfram HP Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran
Published in: Optica, Issue 6/1, 2019, Page(s) 1, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1364/optica.6.000001

In-memory computing on a photonic platform

Author(s): Carlos Ríos, Nathan Youngblood, Zengguang Cheng, Manuel Le Gallo, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, C. David Wright, Abu Sebastian, Harish Bhaskaran
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 5/2, 2019, Page(s) eaau5759, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau5759

Tunable Volatility of Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 in Integrated Photonics

Author(s): Nathan Youngblood, Carlos Ríos, Emanuele Gemo, Johannes Feldmann, Zengguang Cheng, Anna Baldycheva, Wolfram HP Pernice, C. David Wright, Harish Bhaskaran
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, Issue 29/11, 2019, Page(s) 1807571, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201807571

Plasmonically-enhanced all-optical integrated phase-change memory

Author(s): Emanuele Gemo, Santiago Garcia-Cuevas Carrillo, Carlota Ruiz De Galarreta, Anna Baldycheva, Hasan Hayat, Nathan Youngblood, Harish Bhaskaran, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, C. David Wright
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 27/17, 2019, Page(s) 24724, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.024724

Highly parallel simulation and optimization of photonic circuits in time and frequency domain based on the deep-learning framework PyTorch

Author(s): Floris Laporte, Joni Dambre, Peter Bienstman
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-42408-2

Strong Opto-Structural Coupling in Low Dimensional GeSe 3 Films

Author(s): Syed Ghazi Sarwat, Zengguang Cheng, Nathan Youngblood, Mohd Sharizal Alias, Sapna Sinha, Jamie Warner, Harish Bhaskaran
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 19/10, 2019, Page(s) 7377-7384, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03039

All-optical spiking neurosynaptic networks with self-learning capabilities

Author(s): J. Feldmann, N. Youngblood, C. D. Wright, H. Bhaskaran, W. H. P. Pernice
Published in: Nature, Issue 569/7755, 2019, Page(s) 208-214, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1157-8

Plasmonic nanogap enhanced phase-change devices with dual electrical-optical functionality

Author(s): Nikolaos Farmakidis, Nathan Youngblood, Xuan Li, James Tan, Jacob L. Swett, Zengguang Cheng, C. David Wright, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 5/11, 2019, Page(s) eaaw2687, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw2687

Dynamics of mode-locked nanolasers based on Hermite-Gaussian modes

Author(s): Yifan Sun, Sylvain Combrié, Alfredo De Rossi, Fabien Bretenaker
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 102/4, 2020, Page(s) 043503, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.102.043503

Reconfigurable Nanophotonic Circuitry Enabled by Direct-Laser-Writing

Author(s): Helge Gehring, Matthias Blaicher, Thomas Grottke, Wolfram H. P. Pernice
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Issue 26/5, 2020, Page(s) 1-5, ISSN 1077-260X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2020.3004278

Intellectual Property Rights

Patent (2)

ORIFICE-COMPRISING MODE-LOCKED LASER AND ASSOCIATED OPTICAL COMPONENT

Application/Publication number: 20 799717
Date: 2020-11-04

ORIFICE-COMPRISING MODE-LOCKED LASER AND ASSOCIATED OPTICAL COMPONENT

Application/Publication number: 20 799717
Date: 2020-11-04
Applicant(s): THALES