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As modern computing gets continuously pushed up against the von Neumann Bottleneck -- limiting the ultimate speeds for data transfer and computation -- new computing methods are needed in order to bypass this issue and keep our computer's…

Processing-In-Memory (PIM) is a novel approach that augments existing DRAM memory chips with lightweight logic. By allowing to offload computations to the PIM system, this architecture allows for circumventing the data-bottleneck problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-18 André Lopes , Daniel Castro , Paolo Romano

Large-scale genomic workflows used in precision medicine can process datasets spanning tens to hundreds of gigabytes per sample, leading to high memory spikes, intensive disk I/O, and task failures due to out-of-memory errors. Simple static…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Daniel Mas Montserrat , Ray Verma , Míriam Barrabés , Francisco M. de la Vega , Carlos D. Bustamante , Alexander G. Ioannidis

Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) is the de-facto choice for main memory devices due to its cost-effectiveness. It offers a larger capacity and higher bandwidth compared to SRAM but is slower than the latter. With each passing generation,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kaustav Goswami , Hemanta Kumar Mondal , Shirshendu Das , Dip Sankar Banerjee

Spin-torque transfer magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) is a promising emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) technology with wide applications. However, the data recovery of STT-MRAM is affected by the diversity of channel raw bit error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xingwei Zhong , Kui Cai , Peng Kang , Guanghui Song , Bin Dai

The SRAM cell is made up of latch, which ensures that the cell data is preserved as long as power is turned on and refresh operation is not required for the SRAM cell. SRAM is widely used for on-chip cache memory in microprocessors, game…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Apollos Ezeogu

Computing-in-memory (CIM) is proposed to alleviate the processor-memory data transfer bottleneck in traditional Von-Neumann architectures, and spintronics-based magnetic memory has demonstrated many facilitation in implementing CIM…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Xueyan Wang , Jianlei Yang , Yinglin Zhao , Xiaotao Jia , Gang Qu , Weisheng Zhao

Maintaining benefits of CMOS technology scaling is becoming challenging due to increased manufacturing complexities and unwanted passive power dissipations. This is particularly challenging in SRAM, where manufacturing precision and leakage…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-04-03 Mostafizur Rahman , Santosh Khasanvis , Csaba Andras Moritz

Quantum Random Access Memory (QRAM) is a critical component for enabling data queries in superposition, which is the cornerstone of quantum algorithms. Among various QRAM architectures, the bucket-brigade model stands out due to its noise…

Designing lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) models is an active research area in edge AI. Compute-in-memory (CIM) provides a new computing paradigm to alleviate time and energy consumption caused by data transfer in von Neumann…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Wenyong Zhou , Yuan Ren , Jiajun Zhou , Tianshu Hou , Ngai Wong

Verification of binary neural network (BNN) robustness is NP-hard, as it can be formulated as a combinatorial search for an adversarial perturbation that induces misclassification. Exact verification methods therefore scale poorly with…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Madhav Vadlamani , Rahul Singh , Yuyao Kong , Zheng Zhang , Shimeng Yu

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.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Marc Bocquet , Tifenn Hirtzlin , Jacques-Olivier Klein , Etienne Nowak , Elisa Vianello , Jean-Michel Portal , Damien Querlioz

The ever-increasing computation complexity of fast-growing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has requested new computing paradigms to overcome the memory wall in conventional Von Neumann computing architectures. The emerging Computing-In-Memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Kaining Zhou , Yangshuo He , Rui Xiao , Kejie Huang

This paper proposes a frequent itemset mining algorithm based on the Boolean matrix method, aiming to solve the storage and computational bottlenecks of traditional frequent pattern mining algorithms in high-dimensional and large-scale…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xuan Li , Tingyi Ruan , Yankaiqi Li , Quanchao Lu , Xiaoxuan Sun

Two distinguishing features of state-of-the-art mobile and autonomous systems are 1) there are often multiple workloads, mainly deep neural network (DNN) inference, running concurrently and continuously; and 2) they operate on shared memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Ismet Dagli , Mehmet Belviranli

In this paper, we develop an in-memory analog computing (IMAC) architecture realizing both synaptic behavior and activation functions within non-volatile memory arrays. Spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (SOT-MRAM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Mohammed Elbtity , Abhishek Singh , Brendan Reidy , Xiaochen Guo , Ramtin Zand

A programmable optical computer has remained an elusive concept. To construct a practical computing primitive equivalent to an electronic Boolean logic, one should find a nonlinear phenomenon that overcomes weaknesses present in many…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Tuomo von Lerber , Matti Lassas , Quang Trung Le , Vladimir Lyubopytov , Arkadi Chipouline , Klaus Hofmann , Franko Kueppers

In this work, we experimentally demonstrate two key building blocks for realizing Binary/Ternary Neural Networks (BNNs/TNNs): (i) 130 nm CMOS based sigmoidal neurons and (ii) HfOx based multi-level (MLC) OxRAM-synaptic blocks. An optimized…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Sandeep Kaur Kingra , Vivek Parmar , Manoj Sharma , Manan Suri

Hardware neural networks that implement synaptic weights with embedded non-volatile memory, such as spin torque memory (ST-MRAM), are a major lead for low energy artificial intelligence. In this work, we propose an approximate storage…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Nicolas Locatelli , Adrien F. Vincent , Damien Querlioz

RRAM-based in-memory computing (IMC) offers high energy efficiency but suffers from conductance drift that severely degrades long-term accuracy. Existing approaches including retraining, noise-aware training, and Batch Normalization…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Weirong Dong , Kai Zhou , Zhen Kong , Zhengke Yang , Quan Cheng , Haoyuan Li , Junkai Huang , Jun Lan , Yida Li , Masanori Hashimoto , Longyang Lin