{"id":11533,"date":"2018-12-20T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=11533"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:38","slug":"new-device-mimics-brain-like-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/20\/new-device-mimics-brain-like-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"New device mimics brain-like computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11537\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11537\" class=\"wp-image-11537 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses-4A-e1545244477773.png\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" width=\"570\" height=\"420\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A diagram of a synapse receiving a signal from one of the connecting neurons. The new device is the first to mimic this process directly, without the need for software or complicated circuits. (Xiaojian Zhu, Nanoelectronics Group, U-M)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses\/\">A new electronic device developed at U-M can directly model the behaviors of a synapse<\/a>, which is a connection between two neurons. \u201cNeuroscientists have argued that competition and cooperation behaviors among synapses are very important. Our new memristive devices allow us to implement a faithful model of these behaviors in a solid-state system,\u201d said <strong>Wei Lu<\/strong>, U-M professor of electrical and computer engineering and senior author of the study. These memristors could enable new platforms that process a vast number of signals in parallel and are capable of advanced machine learning.<\/p>\n<p>Memristors are electrical resistors with memory that can store and process data simultaneously, which makes them a lot more efficient than traditional systems. However, the memristor\u2019s ability to conduct electricity could not be precisely controlled in previous devices. Now, the U-M team has made a memristor in which they have better command of the conducting pathways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new electronic device developed at U-M can directly model the behaviors of a synapse, which is a connection between two neurons. \u201cNeuroscientists have argued that competition and cooperation behaviors among synapses are very important. Our new memristive devices allow us to implement a faithful model of these behaviors in a solid-state system,\u201d said Wei Lu, U-M professor\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/20\/new-device-mimics-brain-like-computing\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[201,270,21,130],"class_list":["post-11533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-electronics","tag-hardware","tag-innovation","tag-research"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses-4A-e1545244477773.png",570,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses-4A-190x140.png",190,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses-4A-271x200.png",271,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses-4A-768x566.png",665,490,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses-4A-700x516.png",600,442,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses-4A-e1545244477773.png",570,420,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses-4A-e1545244477773.png",570,420,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses-4A-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses-4A-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses-4A-658x300.png",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses-4A-665x490.png",665,490,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses-4A-e1545244477773.png",339,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A new electronic device developed at U-M can directly model the behaviors of a synapse, which is a connection between two neurons. \u201cNeuroscientists have argued that competition and cooperation behaviors among synapses are very important. 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