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Minor-embedding heuristics for large-scale annealing processors with sparse hardware graphs of up to 102,400 nodes
Minor-embedding heuristics have become an indispensable tool for compiling problems in quadratically unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) into the hardware graphs of quantum and CMOS annealing processors. ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Graph Minors from Simulated Annealing for Annealing Machines with Sparse Connectivity
The emergence of new annealing hardware in the last decade and its potential for efficiently solving NP hard problems in quadratically unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) by emulating the ground state sea...
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Open AccessUncertain behaviours of integrated circuits improve computational performance
Improvements to the performance of conventional computers have mainly been achieved through semiconductor scaling; however, scaling is reaching its limitations. Natural phenomena, such as quantum superposition...
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Chapter
Low-Power SRAM
Today, SRAM is an indispensable device in SoCs. The SRAM is used in processor LSIs as an embedded memory because SRAM has manufacturing process compatibility and performance compatibility to the logic circuits...
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Chapter
Electrical Stability (Read and Write Operations)
In SRAM, read and write are fundamental operations. To ensure the correct operations, the stability analysis is indispensable. In this chapter, electrical stability analysis is explained. In Sect. 3.1, the SRA...
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Chapter
Future Technologies
The design solution described in Chap. 5 will help the minimum operating voltage (VDDmin) of a general 6T single-port SRAM. However, it will eventually face the limitation of the SRAM VDDmin because of the degrad...
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Chapter
Low Power Memory Cell Design Technique
This chapter describes the low power memory cell design technique. Section 4.1 introduces fundamentals of leakage of SRAM array. In Sect. 4.2, source line voltage control techniques are explained as new design...
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Chapter
Low-Power Array Design Techniques
This chapter introduces circuit technologies that enhance electric stability of the cell, the latest technologies that provide moderate timing generation, as well as larger cell stability. In Sect. 5.1, the vo...