Presentation 2020-03-06
Circuit Architecture Exploration for Optical Neural Network based on Integrated Nanophotonics
Naoki Hattori, Yutaka Masuda, Tohru Ishihara, Jun Shiomi, Akihiko Shinya, Masaya Notomi,
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Abstract(in English) With a rapid progress of the integrated nanophotonics technology, optical neural networksbased on the integrated nanophotonics attract significant attention. This paper presents an optical neural network architecture which can perform inference processing at a speed of light. The architecture fully exploits optical parallelism of lights using wavelength divisionmultiplexing (WDM) in vector-matrix multiplication. The paper also presents a light-speed activation circuit based on nanophotonic O-E-O converter. Finally, using an intrusion detection system as an application, the paper explores appropriate circuit structures which can fully exploit ultra-low latency nature and optical parallelism of lights without degrading the inference accuracy.
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Keyword(in English) Optical Neural Network / Wavelength Division Multiplexing / Intrusion Detection System
Paper # VLD2019-137,HWS2019-110
Date of Issue 2020-02-26 (VLD, HWS)

Conference Information
Committee HWS / VLD
Conference Date 2020/3/4(4days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Okinawa Ken Seinen Kaikan
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Design Technology for System-on-Silicon, Hardware Security, etc.
Chair Shinichi Kawamura(Toshiba) / Nozomu Togawa(Waseda Univ.)
Vice Chair Makoto Ikeda(Univ. of Tokyo) / Yasuhisa Shimazaki(Renesas Electronics) / Daisuke Fukuda(Fujitsu Labs.)
Secretary Makoto Ikeda(SECOM) / Yasuhisa Shimazaki(Kyushu Univ.) / Daisuke Fukuda(Univ. of Aizu)
Assistant / Kazuki Ikeda(Hitachi)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Hardware Security / Technical Committee on VLSI Design Technologies
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Circuit Architecture Exploration for Optical Neural Network based on Integrated Nanophotonics
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Optical Neural Network
Keyword(2) Wavelength Division Multiplexing
Keyword(3) Intrusion Detection System
1st Author's Name Naoki Hattori
1st Author's Affiliation Nagoya University(Nagoya Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Yutaka Masuda
2nd Author's Affiliation Nagoya University(Nagoya Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Tohru Ishihara
3rd Author's Affiliation Nagoya University(Nagoya Univ.)
4th Author's Name Jun Shiomi
4th Author's Affiliation Kyoto University(Kyoto Univ.)
5th Author's Name Akihiko Shinya
5th Author's Affiliation NTT Nanophotonics Center(NTT)
6th Author's Name Masaya Notomi
6th Author's Affiliation NTT Basic Research Center(NTT)
Date 2020-03-06
Paper # VLD2019-137,HWS2019-110
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) VLD-443,HWS-444
Page pp.pp.251-256(VLD), pp.251-256(HWS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2020-02-26 (VLD, HWS)