MemDANCE

Memristor-based Dendritic Analog Computing Enhancement

Partners

Gordon_Pipa

Prof. Dr. Gordon Pipa

Neuroinformatics, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück

John_Paul_Strachan

Prof. Dr. John Paul Strachan

Neuromorphic Compute Nodes (PGI-14), FZ Jülich

Outcome

Biologically Inspired Multi-Timescale Sequence Processing in Hybrid CMOS-Memristive Hardware

Ming-Jay Yang, Pascal Nieters, Johannes Hellwig, Dimitrios Spithouris; Regina Dittmann, Gordon Pipa, John Paul Strachan

32nd IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), 17-19 November 2025

CMOS-Memristive Dendrite Architecture for Reliable Temporal Pattern Recognition

Ming-Jay Yang, et al

MEMRISYS 2025, Edinburgh, UK (Oral presentation)

CMOS-Memristive Analog In-Memory Computing for Efficient Sequence Processing

Ming-Jay Yang, Sebastian Siegel, Regina Dittmann, John Paul Strachan

Neuromorphic Symposium 2025, 24.-26.09.2025 in Paris, France (Invited oral presentation)

When firing rate falls short: spike synchrony reliably disentangles stimulus saliency and familiarity

Viktoria Zemliak, Gordon Pipa, Pascal Nieters

bioRxiv, 12.08.2025

Preprint

Project Description

This project will advance the field of neuromorphic computing in two major directions. First, it will develop memristor-based hardware for extremely energy-efficient spiking recurrent neuronal networks including dendritic computing, a major component of real neuronal systems that is mostly ignored in the field of artificial neuronal networks by today. Secondly, the inclusion of dendritic computing will enable boosting the computational power of spiking recurrent neuronal networks by increasing temporal memory which is necessary for the effective processing of complex temporal sequences including signatures across different temporal scales. Taking both together, this project has the potential for an extremely energy-efficient memristor-based spiking recurrent neuronal network that may be used in edge devices and for hardware-based neuromorphic applications of AI with significantly improved performance.

Further involved scientists

Ming-Jay_Yang

Dr. Ming-Jay Yang

Neuromorphic Compute Nodes (PGI-14), FZ Jülich

Viktoria Zemliak

Viktoria Zemliak

Neuroinformatics, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück

Hanna Willkomm

Hanna Willkomm

Neuroinformatics, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück