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Memory accounts for a considerable portion of the total power budget and area of digital systems. Furthermore, it is typically the performance bottleneck of the processing units. Therefore, it is critical to optimize the memory with respect…
This paper describes a memory-efficient transformer model designed to drive a reduction in memory usage and execution time by substantial orders of magnitude without impairing the model's performance near that of the original model.…
Deep neural network inference accelerators are rapidly growing in importance as we turn to massively parallelized processing beyond GPUs and ASICs. The dominant operation in feedforward inference is the multiply-and-accumlate process, where…
Recently, crossbar array based in-memory accelerators have been gaining interest due to their high throughput and energy efficiency. While software and compiler support for the in-memory accelerators has also been introduced, they are…
The rapid growth of deep neural network (DNN) workloads has significantly increased the demand for large-capacity on-chip SRAM in machine learning (ML) applications, with SRAM arrays now occupying a substantial fraction of the total die…
The brain performs intelligent tasks with extremely low energy consumption. This work takes inspiration from two strategies used by the brain to achieve this energy efficiency: the absence of separation between computing and memory…
Systems that require high-throughput and fault tolerance, such as key-value stores and databases, are looking to persistent memory to combine the performance of in-memory systems with the data-consistent fault-tolerance of nonvolatile…
Today, there are a plethora of In-Memory Computing (IMC) devices- SRAMs, PCMs & FeFETs, that emulate convolutions on crossbar-arrays with high throughput. Each IMC device offers its own pros & cons during inference of Deep Neural Networks…
Memory management is necessary with the increasing number of multi-connected AI devices and data bandwidth issues. For this purpose, high-speed multi-port memory is used. The traditional multi-port memory solutions are hard-bounded to a…
Crossbar memory arrays have been touted as the workhorse of in-memory computing (IMC)-based acceleration of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), but the associated hardware non-idealities limit their efficacy. To address this, cross-layer design…
Recent development in memory technologies has introduced Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic RAM (STT-MRAM) as the most promising replacement for SRAMs in on-chip cache memories. Besides its lower leakage power, higher density, immunity to…
Memristors, when utilized as electronic components in circuits, can offer opportunities for the implementation of novel reconfigurable electronics. While they have been used in large arrays, studies in ensembles of devices are comparatively…
The emergence of resistive non-volatile memories opens the way to highly energy-efficient computation near- or in-memory. However, this type of computation is not compatible with conventional ECC, and has to deal with device unreliability.…
Parallel wireless digital communication with ultralow power consumption is critical for emerging edge technologies such as 5G and Internet of Things. However, the physical separation between digital computing units and analogue transmission…
The advent of memristive devices offers a promising avenue for efficient and scalable analog computing, particularly for linear algebra operations essential in various scientific and engineering applications. This paper investigates the…
Emerging memory technologies have gained significant attention as a promising pathway to overcome the limitations of conventional computing architectures in deep learning applications. By enabling computation directly within memory, these…
Low-power designs are a necessity with the increasing demand of portable devices which are battery operated. In many of such devices the operational speed is not as important as battery life. Logic-in-memory structures using nano-devices…
We analyzed micrometer-scale titanium-niobium-oxide prototype memristors, which exhibited low write-power (<3 {\mu}W) and energy (<200 fJ/bit/{\mu}m2), low read-power (~nW), and high endurance (>millions of cycles). To understand their…
3D DRAM has emerged as a promising approach for continued density scaling, but its viability is limited by routing and hybrid bonding constraints to periphery, which may degrade sensing margin, latency, and array efficiency. With device…
Memristive devices hold promise to improve the scale and efficiency of machine learning and neuromorphic hardware, thanks to their compact size, low power consumption, and the ability to perform matrix multiplications in constant time.…