A delayed feedback reservoir (DFR) is a type of reservoir computing system
well-suited for hardware implementations owing to its simple structure. Most
existing DFR implementations use analog circuits that require both
digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters for interfacing. However,
digital DFRs emulate analog nonlinear components in the digital domain,
resulting in a lack of design flexibility and higher power consumption. In this
paper, we propose a novel modular DFR model that is suitable for fully digital
implementations. The proposed model reduces the number of hyperparameters and
allows flexibility in the selection of the nonlinear function, which improves
the accuracy while reducing the power consumption. We further present two DFR
realizations with different nonlinear functions, achieving 10x power reduction
and 5.3x throughput improvement while maintaining equal or better accuracy.

该论文提出了一种适用于完全数字实现的新型模块化延迟反馈储层模型，减少了超参数数量，提供了非线性函数选择的灵活性，从而提高了准确性并降低了功耗。通过采用不同的非线性函数，实现了 10 倍的功耗降低和 5.3 倍的吞吐量提升，同时保持相等或更好的准确性。