Test and Reliability of Emerging Memory-based Spiking Neural Networks – EMINENT

The EMINENT project is concerned with the following research areas: (i) emerging memory technologies (memristors and spintronic devices) used in a non-Von Neumann context, (ii) hardware implementations of bio-inspired neural networks (Spiking Neural Networks), (iii) hardware dependability (robustness, reliability and test) and design-for-dependability. The goal of the EMINENT project is to provide a dependable Emerging Memory-based Spiking Neural Network architecture. This goal will be achieved by fulfilling the following objectives: (i) study of meaningful dependability threats in SNN architectures, (ii) reliability estimation campaign; (iii) post-fabrication test strategy and design-for-test solutions; (iv) strategy for architecture dependability improvement.