A two-terminal floating-gate transistor for neuromorphic computing

Researchers at Technion and TowerJazz in Israel have recently built a low-power, two-terminal floating-gate transistor that could have useful applications in neuromorphic computing. This transistor, presented in a paper in Nature Electronics, was fabricated using standard single-poly technology and a commercial 180-nm CMOS process. "Our lab usually works on circuits and architectures with emerging devices, such as memristors," Shahar Kvatinsky, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told TechXplore. "The problem with these devices is that they are not commercially available and we can only get them on a small scale and with poor reliability. So usually, we either rely on simulations or on small proofs-of-concept with available devices."