Abstract:
Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems for a circuit to shift a voltage level. The circuit may include a first inverter that includes a first transistor coupled to pass a low voltage signal and a second inverter coupled to receive the low voltage signal. The circuit may further include a second transistor coupled to receive the low voltage signal from the second inverter to serve as a feedback device and produce a high voltage signal. In embodiments, the first transistor conducts asymmetrically to prevent crossover of the high voltage signal into the low voltage domain. A low voltage memory array is also described. In embodiments, the circuit to shift a voltage level may assist communication between a logic component including the low voltage memory array of a low voltage domain and a logic component of a high voltage domain. Additional embodiments may also be described.
Abstract:
An embodiment includes an oscillator comprising an amplifier formed on a substrate; a multiple gate resonant channel array, formed on the substrate, including: (a) transistors including fins, each of the fins having a channel between source and drain nodes, coupled to common source and drain contacts; and (b) common first and second tri-gates coupled to each of the fins and located between the source and drain contacts; wherein the fins mechanically resonate at a first frequency when one of the first and second tri-gates is periodically activated to produce periodic downward forces on the fins. Other embodiments include a non planar transistor with a channel between the source and drain nodes and a tri-gate on the fin; wherein the fin mechanically resonates when the first tri-gate is periodically activated to produce periodic downward forces on the fin. Other embodiments are described herein.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are staged oscillators for neural computing, as well as related methods and assemblies. In some embodiments, neural computing circuitry may include a first oscillator set, a second oscillator set, and an averaging structure coupled between the first oscillator set and the second oscillator set.
Abstract:
Embodiments may relate to a system to be used in an oscillating neural network (ONN). The system may include a control node and a plurality of nodes wirelessly communicatively coupled with a control node. A node of the plurality of nodes may be configured to identify an oscillation frequency of the node based on a weight W and an input X. The node may further be configured to transmit a wireless signal to the control node, wherein a frequency of the wireless signal oscillates based on the identified oscillation frequency. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
Abstract:
Described herein are ferroelectric (FE) memory cells that include transistors having gate stacks separate from FE capacitors of these cells. An example memory cell may be implemented as an IC device that includes a support structure (e.g., a substrate) and a transistor provided over the support structure and including a gate stack. The IC device also includes a FE capacitor having a first capacitor electrode, a second capacitor electrode, and a capacitor insulator of a FE material between the first capacitor electrode and the second capacitor electrode, where the FE capacitor is separate from the gate stack (i.e., is not integrated within the gate stack and does not have any layers that are part of the gate stack). The IC device further includes an interconnect structure, configured to electrically couple the gate stack and the first capacitor electrode.
Abstract:
A capacitor is disclosed that includes a first metal layer and a seed layer on the first metal layer. The seed layer includes a polar phase crystalline structure. The capacitor also includes a ferroelectric layer on the seed layer and a second metal layer on the ferroelectric layer.
Abstract:
A integrated circuit structure comprises a fin extending from a substrate. The fin comprises source and drain regions and a channel region between the source and drain regions. A multilayer high-k gate dielectric stack comprises at least a first high-k material and a second high-k material, the first high-k material extending conformally over the fin over the channel region, and the second high-k material conformal to the first high-k material, wherein either the first high-k material or the second high-k material has a modified material property different from the other high-k material, wherein the modified material property comprises at least one of ferroelectricity, crystalline phase, texturing, ordering orientation of the crystalline phase or texturing to a specific crystalline direction or plane, strain, surface roughness, and lattice constant and combinations thereof. A gate electrode ix over and on a topmost high-k material in the multilayer high-k gate dielectric stack. A selector element is above the metal layer.
Abstract:
Described herein are integrated circuit devices formed using perovskite materials. Perovskite materials with a similar crystal structure and different electrical properties can be layered to realize a transistor or memory device. In some embodiments, a ferroelectric perovskite can be incorporated into a device with other perovskite films to form a ferroelectric memory device.
Abstract:
Embodiments may relate to a structure to be used in a neural network. A first column and a second column, both of which are to couple with a substrate. A capacitor structure may be electrically coupled with the first column. An insulator-metal transition (IMT) structure may be coupled with the first column such that the capacitor structure is electrically positioned between the IMT structure and the first column. A resistor structure may further be electrically coupled with the IMT structure and the second column such that the resistor structure is electrically positioned between the second column and the IMT structure. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
Abstract:
A routing structure is disclosed. A first wiring line coupled to a programming access device and a routing block driver and receiver enabling device and a second wiring line coupled to a programming access device and a routing block driver and receiver enabling device. An insulator-metal-transistor device that includes a top electrode, a middle electrode and a bottom electrode, coupled at the intersection of the first wiring line and the second wiring line.