Looking Into Nature The electron transport chain in photosystem II is one of the most important biochemical reaction pathways for life on this planet [1]. It starts with the absorption of a photon of light from the sun and through a sequential chain of se... read more
Introduction Knowm partner Hillary Riggs and I had the great pleasure of attending the Navy Karles Invitational Conference on Neuroelectronics, hosted by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC from August 18-19, 2015. It was a small and short even... read more
Oxide-based Memristors I have been asked a number of times how the memristors I designed for Knowm Inc. differ from HP’s memristor. For every comment I make, I have to stress that I have not personally tested HP’s memristors. Their actual elec... read more
The Biological Complexity Monster For about a decade I have seen the same pattern repeat itself. A circuit designer builds a Spike-Timing-Dependant-Plasticty (STDP) neuron. They justify their efforts because STDP is popular and by saying “that is wh... read more
Dr. Kris Campbell introducing the Silver and Copper self directed channel memristor at the 5th Memristor Symposium in August 2016 in Dresden. Development history of Self Directed Channel Memristor including IP information. Introduction SDC Electrical Resp... read more
The Knowm team attended this year’s NICE workshop at IBM Almaden, sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation, IBM and the Kavli Foundation. The conference was filled with a good sampling of the modern celebrities of neuromorphics and representa... read more
Overview The goal of the ICRC conference is to “discover and foster novel methodologies to reinvent computing technology, including new materials and physics, devices and circuits, system and network architectures, and algorithms and software”... read more
The sixth annual Neuro Inspired Computational Elements (NICE) was hosted by Intel at the Jones Farm campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, February 27 to March 1. It featured talks on Intel’s new neuromorphic chip arrival “Loihi” as well upgrades ... read more
Knowm Memristors are impressive, but like all memristors there have remained two issues related to their use in VLSI deep learning accelerators. The first issue is reliably programming the state of a memristor in a compact and time efficient way. While ap... read more
The Oxide-Memristor Paradox Since launching Knowm Inc four years ago there has been a perplexing paradox that I believe has finally resolved itself. Soon after publication of AHaH Computing: From Meta-Stable Switches to Machine Learning I had the great fo... read more