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Developing mixed-signal analog-digital neuromorphic circuits in advanced scaled processes poses significant design challenges. We present compact and energy efficient sub-threshold analog synapse and neuron circuits, optimized for a 28 nm…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ning Qiao , Giacomo Indiveri

Energy management systems (EMS) rely on (non)-intrusive load monitoring (N)ILM to monitor and manage appliances and help residents be more energy efficient and thus more frugal. The robustness as well as the transfer potential of the most…

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The increasing computational demands of modern AI systems have exposed fundamental limitations of digital hardware, driving interest in alternative paradigms for efficient large-scale inference. Dense Associative Memory (DenseAM) is a…

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Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM), or memristive, devices promise energy-efficient realization of deep learning, when efficiently integrated with mixed-signal integrated circuits on a CMOS substrate. Even though several algorithmic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Vishal Saxena , Xinyu Wu , Kehan Zhu

In recent years, due to a higher demand for portable devices, which provide restricted amounts of processing capacity and battery power, the need for energy and time efficient hard- and software solutions has increased. Preliminary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-04 Christian Herglotz , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup , Arne Hendricks , Marc Reichenbach , Dietmar Fey

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become essential in a variety of applications due to their advanced language understanding and generation capabilities. However, their computational and memory requirements pose significant challenges to…

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We introduce PULSE, a sub-microsecond optical circuit-switched data centre network architecture controlled by distributed hardware schedulers. PULSE is a flat architecture that uses parallel passive coupler-based broadcast and select…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Joshua L. Benjamin , Thomas Gerard , Domaniç Lavery , Polina Bayvel , Georgios Zervas

Recent works demonstrated the promise of using resistive random access memory (ReRAM) as an emerging technology to perform inherently parallel analog domain in-situ matrix-vector multiplication -- the intensive and key computation in DNNs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Geng Yuan , Payman Behnam , Zhengang Li , Ali Shafiee , Sheng Lin , Xiaolong Ma , Hang Liu , Xuehai Qian , Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi , Yanzhi Wang , Caiwen Ding

The gap between abstraction levels in analog design is a major obstacle for advancing analog and mixed-signal (AMS) design automation and computer-aided design (CAD). Intelligent models for low-level analog building blocks are needed to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Saraju P. Mohanty , Elias Kougianos

Accommodating all the weights on-chip for large-scale NNs remains a great challenge for SRAM based computing-in-memory (SRAM-CIM) with limited on-chip capacity. Previous non-volatile SRAM-CIM (nvSRAM-CIM) addresses this issue by integrating…

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On superconducting architectures, the state of a qubit is manipulated by using microwave pulses. Typically, the pulses are stored in the waveform memory and then streamed to the Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) to synthesize the gate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 Satvik Maurya , Swamit Tannu

Hybrid memory systems, comprised of emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) and DRAM, have been proposed to address the growing memory demand of applications. Emerging NVM technologies, such as phase-change memories (PCM), memristor, and 3D…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Fei Wen , Mian Qin , Paul V. Gratz , A. L. Narasimha Reddy

Vector-matrix-multiplication (VMM) accel-erators have gained a lot of traction, especially due to therise of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and the desireto compute them on the edge. Besides the classical digitalapproach, analog…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Florian Freye , Jie Lou , Christian Lanius , Tobias Gemmeke

The massive use of artificial neural networks (ANNs), increasingly popular in many areas of scientific computing, rapidly increases the energy consumption of modern high-performance computing systems. An appealing and possibly more…

In this extended abstract, we have introduced a highly memory-efficient state vector simulation of quantum circuits premised on data compression, harnessing the capabilities of both CPUs and GPUs. We have elucidated the inherent challenges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Boyuan Zhang , Bo Fang , Qiang Guan , Ang Li , Dingwen Tao

A programmable linear resistor with a compact footprint would have profound implications for microelectronics, enabling efficient in-sensor analog signal processing and in-memory computing. Non-volatile memory offers a potential solution…

In recent years, Compute-in-memory (CiM) architectures have emerged as a promising solution for deep neural network (NN) accelerators. Multiply-accumulate~(MAC) is considered a {\textit de facto} unit operation in NNs. By leveraging the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Dhandeep Challagundla , Ignatius Bezzam , Riadul Islam

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

High-performance computing systems are moving towards 2.5D and 3D memory hierarchies, based on High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) to mitigate the main memory bottlenecks. This trend is also creating new opportunities…

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