# SHE-MTJ Circuits for Convolutional Neural Networks

Source: [SHE-MTJ Circuits for Convolutional Neural Networks](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67f61e209131cea19766>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-25T22:25:59.816Z

Authors: Andrew W. Stephan, Steven J. Koester

Published: 2020-07-16T16:24:00.000Z

## Abstract

We report the performance characteristics of a notional Convolutional Neural Network based on the previously-proposed Multiply-Accumulate-Activate-Pool set, an MTJ-based spintronic circuit made to compute multiple neural functionalities in parallel. A study of image classification with the MNIST handwritten digits dataset using this network is provided via simulation. The effect of changing the weight representation precision, the severity of device process variation within the MAAP sets and the computational redundancy are provided. The emulated network achieves between 90 and 95\\% image classification accuracy at a cost of ~100 nJ per image.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08437>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.08437.pdf>)