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Nonvolatile phase change random access memory (PCRAM) is regarded as one of promising candidates for emerging mass storage in the era of Big Data. However, relatively high programming energy hurdles the further reduction of power…

The increasing computational demand of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) necessitates energy-efficient acceleration strategies. Compute-in-Memory (CIM) architectures based on Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) offer a promising…

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Compute-in-Memory (CIM) and weight sparsity are two effective techniques to reduce data movement during Neural Network (NN) inference. However, they can hardly be employed in the same accelerator simultaneously because CIM requires…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Weiping Yang , Shilin Zhou , Hui Xu , Yujiao Nie , Qimin Zhou , Zhiwei Li , Changlin Chen

Although we may be at the end of Moore's law, lowering chip power consumption is still the primary driving force for the designers. To enable low-power operation, we propose a resonant energy recovery static random access memory (SRAM). We…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Riadul Islam , Biprangshu Saha , Ignatius Bezzam

The sensitive conductance change of semiconductor nanowires and carbon nanotubes in response to binding of charged molecules provide a novel sensing modality which is generally denoted as nanoFET sensors. In this paper, we study the scaling…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Fu-Shan Zhou , Qi-Huo Wei

The surge in AI usage demands innovative power reduction strategies. Novel Compute-in-Memory (CIM) architectures, leveraging advanced memory technologies, hold the potential for significantly lowering energy consumption by integrating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 José Cubero-Cascante , Arunkumar Vaidyanathan , Rebecca Pelke , Lorenzo Pfeifer , Rainer Leupers , Jan Moritz Joseph

In a previous work (Li et al. Science 364, 170) [1], we proposed a heat transfer system that preserves the anti-parity-time (APT) symmetry, and observe the rest-to-motion phase transition during the symmetry breaking. Recently, it was…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-26 Ying Li , Wei Li , Cheng-Wei Qiu

The thermalization of non-equilibrium charge carriers is at the heart of thermoelectric energy conversion. In nanoscale systems, the equilibration length can be on the order of the system size, leading to a situation where thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Fabian Könemann , I-Ju Chen , Sebastian Lehmann , Claes Thelander , Bernd Gotsmann

Cell switching is a promising approach for improving energy efficiency in wireless networks; however, existing studies largely rely on simplified models and energy-centric formulations that overlook key performance-limiting factors. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Mehmet Eren Uluçınar , Özgün Ersoy , Berk Ciloglu , Metin Ozturk , Ali Gorcin

The use of magnetic nanowires as memory units is made possible by the exponential divergence of the characteristic time for magnetization reversal at low temperature, but the slow relaxation makes the manipulation of the frozen magnetic…

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Unipolar switching phenomena have attracted a great deal of recent attention, but the wide distributions of switching voltages still pose major obstacles for scientific advancement and practical applications. Using NiO capacitors, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 S. B. Lee , S. C. Chae , S. H. Chang , J. S. Lee , S. Seo , B. Kahng , T. W. Noh

Classical simulations are essential for the development of quantum computing, and their exponential scaling can easily fill any modern supercomputer. In this paper we consider the performance and energy consumption of large Quantum Fourier…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jakub Adamski , James Peter Richings , Oliver Thomson Brown

For decades, conventional computers based on the von Neumann architecture have performed computation by repeatedly transferring data between their processing and their memory units, which are physically separated. As computation becomes…

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Neuromorphic computing with non-volatile memory (NVM) can significantly improve performance and lower energy consumption of machine learning tasks implemented using spike-based computations and bio-inspired learning algorithms. High…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Shihao Song , Anup Das

This paper studies the transmit power optimization in a multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. To overcome the scalability issue of network-wide max-min fairness (NW-MMF), we propose a novel power control (PC)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Amin Ghazanfari , Hei Victor Cheng , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

The commercialization of non-volatile memories based on ferroelectric transistors (FeFETs) has remained elusive due to scaling, retention, and endurance issues. Thus, it is important to develop accurate characterization tools to quantify…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 Nicoló Zagni , Paolo Pavan , Muhammad Ashraful Alam

Wireless Sensor Networks research and demand are now in full expansion, since people came to understand these are the key to a large number of issues in industry, commerce, home automation, healthcare, agriculture and environment,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Andreea Picu , Antoine Fraboulet , Eric Fleury

Neuromorphic hardware platforms can significantly lower the energy overhead of a machine learning inference task. We present a design-technology tradeoff analysis to implement such inference tasks on the processing elements (PEs) of a Non-…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Shihao Song , Adarsha Balaji , Anup Das , Nagarajan Kandasamy

This paper investigates the energy savings that near-subthreshold processors can obtain in edge AI applications and proposes strategies to improve them while maintaining the accuracy of the application. The selected processors deploy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zichao Shen , Neil Howard , Jose Nunez-Yanez

Computer simulations have long been key to understanding and designing phase-change materials (PCMs) for memory technologies. Machine learning is now increasingly being used to accelerate the modelling of PCMs, and yet it remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-13 Yuxing Zhou , Daniel F. Thomas du Toit , Stephen R. Elliott , Wei Zhang , Volker L. Deringer