Computational Architectures Based on Coupled Oscillators

Matthew J. Cotter, Yan Fang, Steven P. Levitan, Donald M. Chiarulli, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Abstract: Recent advances in device technology have opened the door to exploration of new computing paradigms. These paradigms are geared to exploit the behavior of emerging devices such as coupled oscillator arrays. Coupled oscillators are one such device technology that offloads some of the computational complexity to the devices exploiting the physics of the device to perform computation, rather than relying purely on Boolean logic. In this work, we explore the variety of available coupled oscillator architectures. Additionally, we evaluate some basic computation using these architectures in the image processing domain, with an eye towards more complex algorithms and applications.