<p>Analogue computing uses the physical behaviours of devices to provide energy-efficient arithmetic operations. However, scaling up analogue computing platforms by simply increasing the number of devices leads to challenges such as device-to-device variation. Here we report scalable analogue computing and neural networks in the synthetic frequency domain using an integrated nonlinear phononic platform on lithium niobate. This synthetic-domain computing is robust to device variations, as vectors and matrices are concurrently encoded at different frequencies within a single device, achieving a high throughput per area. Leveraging inherent nonlinearities, our device-aware neural network can perform a four-class classification task with an accuracy of 98.2%. The nonlinear phononic computing hardware also maintains consistent performance over a wide operational temperature range (characterized up to 192 °C). Our synthetic-domain computing combines single-device parallelism, inherent nonlinearity and environmental stability, and could be of use in edge computing applications in which power efficiency and environmental resilience are crucial.</p>

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Synthetic-domain computing and neural networks using lithium niobate integrated nonlinear phononics

  • Jun Ji,
  • Zichen Xi,
  • Joseph G. Thomas,
  • Bernadeta R. Srijanto,
  • Ivan I. Kravchenko,
  • Pranay Baikadi,
  • Minglei Sun,
  • William G. Vandenberghe,
  • Ming Jin,
  • Yizheng Zhu,
  • Wenjie Xiong,
  • Linbo Shao

摘要

Analogue computing uses the physical behaviours of devices to provide energy-efficient arithmetic operations. However, scaling up analogue computing platforms by simply increasing the number of devices leads to challenges such as device-to-device variation. Here we report scalable analogue computing and neural networks in the synthetic frequency domain using an integrated nonlinear phononic platform on lithium niobate. This synthetic-domain computing is robust to device variations, as vectors and matrices are concurrently encoded at different frequencies within a single device, achieving a high throughput per area. Leveraging inherent nonlinearities, our device-aware neural network can perform a four-class classification task with an accuracy of 98.2%. The nonlinear phononic computing hardware also maintains consistent performance over a wide operational temperature range (characterized up to 192 °C). Our synthetic-domain computing combines single-device parallelism, inherent nonlinearity and environmental stability, and could be of use in edge computing applications in which power efficiency and environmental resilience are crucial.