Objective
The growing need to transfer massive amounts of data among multitudes of interconnected devices for e.g. self-driving vehicles, IoT or industry 4.0 has led to a quest towards low-power and secure approaches to locally processing data. Neuromorphic computing, a brain-inspired approach, addresses this need by radically changing the processing of information. Although neuromorphic electrical computing systems offer advantages in terms of CMOS implementations and scalability, they inherit limitations of conventional electronics such as low energy-efficiency, high latency and low bandwidth density. Besides, such systems often require robust security layers for e.g. safety-critical applications. Security layers based on memory-stored secret keys are prone to several types of memory-accessing attacks. Therefore, silicon hardware approaches for security primitives such as physical unclonable functions (PUFs) are currently investigated because of their absence of long-term digital memory storage. Although electronic PUFs have received major attention thanks to their native CMOS implementation, for secure authentication they are prone to machine learning and side-channel attacks due to their CMOS technology.
The NEUROPULS project aims to build next-generation low-power and secure edge-computing systems by developing novel photonic computing architectures and security layers based on photonic PUFs in augmented silicon photonics CMOS-compatible platforms. The integration of emerging non-volatile phase change materials for synapses/neurons and III-V materials for on-chip spiking sources, for the first time, will allow to build novel neuromorphic accelerators featuring RISC-V compliant interfaces for smooth adoption and programmability. Optimal performance will be achieved thanks to a novel full-system simulation platform for design space exploration. Three relevant use-cases will be considered for benchmarking to demonstrate 2 orders of magnitude energy efficiency improvement.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitycryptography
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputational sciencemultiphysics
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynanophotonics
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
75794 Paris
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21078 Dijon Cedex
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69134 Ecully
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75015 Paris 15
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9000 Gent
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10129 Torino
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1000 029 Lisboa
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08034 Barcelona
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1831 Diegem
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08012 Barcelona
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10561 Athina
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80539 Muenchen
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547 01 Nachod
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37129 Verona
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