Laboratory for Intelligent Nano-Integration System, RIEC, Tohoku Univ.

Research Target

Our research activities cover the fields of architectures of Brain computing systems, characterization and application of artificial neural networks, computer aided designs and fabrications of intelligent integrated circuits, and exploitation of new devices for neural circuits.

We have constructed a stochastic artificial neural network with one million synaptic units, analyzed the dynamic behaviour of neural networks aiming at a time-dependent data processing, succeeded to propose a system where we are able to get off successfully from any local minima fallen into on the way of data processing in neural networks, and fabricated its prototype hardware system on the siliconmicrochip by using the CMOS technology. We have also presented an FFT and a neural system operated by using a flux quantum logic in superconducting integrated circuits.

At present research is focused on the large scale integration of Brain computing system and exploitations of new neural devices proposing a neuromorphic quantum computation.