Hardware Error Correction for MZI-Based Matrix Computation

Autor: Huihuang Hou, Pengfei Xu, Zhiping Zhou, Hui Su
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Micromachines, Vol 14, Iss 5, p 955 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-666X
DOI: 10.3390/mi14050955
Popis: With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the electronic system has fallen short of providing the needed computation speed. It is believed that silicon-based optoelectronic computation may be a solution, where Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI)-based matrix computation is the key due to its advantages of simple implementation and easy integration on a silicon wafer, but one of the concerns is the precision of the MZI method in the actual computation. This paper will identify the main hardware error sources of MZI-based matrix computation, summarize the available hardware error correction methods from the perspective of the entire MZI meshes and a single MZI device, and propose a new architecture that will largely improve the precision of MZI-based matrix computation without increasing the size of the MZI’s mesh, which may lead to a fast and accurate optoelectronic computing system.
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