One main fault-tolerant method for a neural network accelerator based on resistive random access memory crossbars is the programming-based method, which is also known as write-and-verify (W-V). In the basic W-V scheme, all devices in crossbars are programmed repeatedly until they are close enough to their targets, which costs huge overhead. To reduce the cost, we optimize the W-V scheme by proposing a probabilistic termination criterion on a single device and a systematic optimization method on multiple devices. Furthermore, we propose a joint algorithm that assists the novel W-V scheme by incremental retraining, which further reduces the W-V cost. Compared to the basic W-V scheme, our proposed method improves the accuracy by 0.23% for ResNet18 on CIFAR10 with only 9.7% W-V cost under variation with σ = 1.2.
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Meng, Z., Sun, Y., & Qian, W. (2022). Write or Not: Programming Scheme Optimization for RRAM-based Neuromorphic Computing. In Proceedings - Design Automation Conference (pp. 985–990). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3489517.3530558
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