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Training of deep neural networks (DNNs) is a computationally intensive task and requires massive volumes of data transfer. Performing these operations with the conventional von Neumann architectures creates unmanageable time and power…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Murat Onen , Brenden A. Butters , Emily Toomey , Tayfun Gokmen , Karl K. Berggren

The Von Neumann bottleneck, a fundamental challenge in conventional computer architecture, arises from the inability to execute fetch and data operations simultaneously due to a shared bus linking processing and memory units. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Md Tawsif Rahman Chowdhury , Huynh Quang Nguyen Vo , Paritosh Ramanan , Murat Yildirim , Gozde Tutuncuoglu

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

Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) is an essential mathematical tool for computing polynomial multiplication in promising lattice-based cryptography. However, costly division operations and complex data dependencies make efficient and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Jingyao Zhang , Mohsen Imani , Elaheh Sadredini

Embedded machine learning (ML) systems have now become the dominant platform for deploying ML serving tasks and are projected to become of equal importance for training ML models. With this comes the challenge of overall efficient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Ahmet Inci , Mehmet Meric Isgenc , Diana Marculescu

Analog compute-in-memory (CIM) in static random-access memory (SRAM) is promising for accelerating deep learning inference by circumventing the memory wall and exploiting ultra-efficient analog low-precision arithmetic. Latest analog CIM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zhiyu Chen , Ziyuan Wen , Weier Wan , Akhil Reddy Pakala , Yiwei Zou , Wei-Chen Wei , Zengyi Li , Yubei Chen , Kaiyuan Yang

In-memory computing is a promising approach to addressing the processor-memory data transfer bottleneck in computing systems. We propose Spin-Transfer Torque Compute-in-Memory (STT-CiM), a design for in-memory computing with Spin-Transfer…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Shubham Jain , Ashish Ranjan , Kaushik Roy , Anand Raghunathan

The demand for edge artificial intelligence to process event-based, complex data calls for hardware beyond conventional digital, von-Neumann architectures. Neuromorphic computing, using spiking neural networks (SNNs) with emerging…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Zhu Wang , Song Wang , Zhiyuan Du , Ruibin Mao , Yu Xiao , Hayden Kwok-Hay So , Peng Lin , Can Li

The memristor is promising to be the basic cell of next-generation computation systems. Compared to the traditional MOSFET device, the memristor is efficient over energy and area. But one of the biggest challenges faced with researchers is…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Junyi Li , Fulin Peng , Fan Yang , Xuan Zeng

Developing ultra-low-energy superconducting computing and fault-tolerant quantum computing will require scalable superconducting memory. While conventional superconducting logic-based memory cells have facilitated early demonstrations,…

A compact, accurate, and bitwidth-programmable in-memory computing (IMC) static random-access memory (SRAM) macro, named CAP-RAM, is presented for energy-efficient convolutional neural network (CNN) inference. It leverages a novel…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Zhiyu Chen , Zhanghao Yu , Qing Jin , Yan He , Jingyu Wang , Sheng Lin , Dai Li , Yanzhi Wang , Kaiyuan Yang

Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) based in-memory computing (IMC) accelerators offer significant performance and energy advantages for deep neural networks (DNNs), but face three major limitations: (1) they support only \textit{static}…

Magneto-Electric FET (MEFET) is a recently developed post-CMOS FET, which offers intriguing characteristics for high speed and low-power design in both logic and memory applications. In this paper, for the first time, we propose a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Shaahin Angizi , Navid Khoshavi , Andrew Marshall , Peter Dowben , Deliang Fan

In energy-constrained scenarios such as IoT applications, the primary requirement for System-on-Chips (SoCs) is to increase battery life. However, when performing sub/near-threshold operations, the relatively large leakage current hinders…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shan Shen , Hao Xu , Yongliang Zhou , Ming Ling , Wenjian Yu

The modern implementation of machine learning architectures faces significant challenges due to frequent data transfer between memory and processing units. In-memory computing, primarily through memristor-based analog computing, offers a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Omar Ghazal , Tian Lan , Shalman Ojukwu , Komal Krishnamurthy , Alex Yakovlev , Rishad Shafik

Memristive in-memory computing (IMC) has emerged as a promising solution for addressing the bottleneck in the Von Neumann architecture. However, the couplingbetweenthecircuitandalgorithm in IMC makes computing reliability susceptible to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Houji Zhou , Ling Yang , Zhiwei Zhou , Yi Li , Xiangshui Miao

Conventional 6T SRAM is used in microprocessors in the cache memory design. The basic 6T SRAM cell and a 6 bit memory array layout are designed in LEdit. The design and analysis of key SRAM components, sense amplifiers, decoders, write…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Justin London

Using memristive properties common for the titanium dioxide thin film devices, we designed a simple write algorithm to tune device conductance at a specific bias point to 1% relative accuracy (which is roughly equivalent to 7-bit precision)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Fabien Alibart , Ligang Gao , Brian Hoskins , Dmitri Strukov

This work presents a novel approach to configure 2T-nC ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) for performing single cell logic-in-memory operations, highlighting its advantages in energy-efficient computation over conventional DRAM-based approaches.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Rudra Biswas , Jiahui Duan , Shan Deng , Xuezhong Niu , Yixin Qin , Prapti Panigrahi , Varun Parekh , Rajiv Joshi , Kai Ni , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Sorting is fundamental and ubiquitous in modern computing systems. Hardware sorting systems are built based on comparison operations with Von Neumann architecture, but their performance are limited by the bandwidth between memory and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Lianfeng Yu , Yaoyu Tao , Teng Zhang , Zeyu Wang , Xile Wang , Zelun Pan , Bowen Wang , Zhaokun Jing , Jiaxin Liu , Yuqi Li , Yihang Zhu , Bonan Yan , Yuchao Yang