GIST graduate student won '18th Korea Semiconductor Design Competition Special Company Award - SK Hynix'

From the left: In-June Yeo, Sang-Gyun Gi, and Professor Byung-Geun Lee

□ As members of the ‘AMIC-Neuromorphic’ team, graduate students In-June Yeo and Sang-Gyun Gi under their advisor Professor Byung-Geun Lee at the Gwangju Institute of Science (GIST, President Seung Hyeon) were awarded a special company award (SK-Hynix) in the 18th Korea semiconductor design war.

∘ Hosted by the Korean Intellectual Property Office and co-organized by the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association, the conference has been held every year since 2000 to identify outstanding semiconductor design students and to promote the development of semiconductor design technology in Korea.

∘ The 'AMIC-Neuromorphic' team developed a silicon neuron and an energy-efficient pattern recognition system that simulate the multiplication / summation / activation operations analogously using the recently studied memristor synapses.

∘ The proposed silicon neurons imitate specific neuro-bio dynamics using pulse-frequency modulation and probability-based calculations and was able to realize four reconfigurable functions with only one comparator.

□ Intelligent neuromorphic processor using low-power synapse / neuron circuit simulating the neural behavior mechanism can recognize various non-standard patterns (images, sounds, etc.) through a self-learning function and can open a new computing paradigm .

□ The winner will be exhibited at Seminar (SEDEX), which will be held in COEX from October 17 to October 19, 2017. Professor Byung-Geun Lee's teams has received 15 awards in the last 16 Semiconductor Design Competition.