Logic synthesis for majority based in-memory computing

Abstract

The resistive switching property exhibited by many emerging memory technologies enables the execution of logic operations directly with memory arrays. This opens new horizons to a modern era of computer architectures beyond the traditional Von Neumann architectures which have separated memory and computing units. In this chapter, the memristive behavior of RRAM is abstracted as a majority based logic operation for efficient synthesis of logic-in-memory circuits and systems. Amajority based Programmable Logic-in-Memory (PLiM) architecture is also introduced and compiled addressing the latency and area issues.