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Matthew Pufall (Fed)

Publications

Synaptic weighting in single flux quantum neuromorphic computing

Author(s)
Michael L. Schneider, Christine A. Donnelly, Ian W. Haygood, Alex Wynn, Stephen E. Russek, Manuel C. Castellanos Beltran, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Peter F. Hopkins, Matthew R. Pufall, William H. Rippard
Josephson junctions act as a natural spiking neuron-like device for neuromorphic computing. By leveraging the advances recently demonstrated in digital single

Energy efficient single flux quantum based neuromorphic computing

Author(s)
Michael L. Schneider, Christine A. Donnelly, Stephen E. Russek, Burm Baek, Matthew R. Pufall, Peter F. Hopkins, William H. Rippard
Many neuromorphic hardware technologies are being explored for their potential to increase the efficiency of computing certain problems, and thus facilitate
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Patents

Neural Member, Neural Network, and Neurological Memory

NIST Inventors
Stephen E. Russek, William Rippard and Matthew Pufall
Patent Description We propose a new form of artificial synapse based on dynamically reconfigurable superconducting Josephson junctions with magnetic clusters in the barrier. The spiking energy per pulse varies with the magnetic configuration. The critical current of each magnetic Josephson junction
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Created October 9, 2019