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Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are now widely used in various computer vision applications, its huge resource demanding on parameter storage and computation makes the deployment on mobile and embedded devices difficult.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Zhe Xu , Ray C. C. Cheung

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have begun to permeate all corners of electronic society (from voice recognition to scene generation) due to their high accuracy and machine efficiency per operation. At their core, CNN computations are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Kartik Hegde , Jiyong Yu , Rohit Agrawal , Mengjia Yan , Michael Pellauer , Christopher W. Fletcher

Computation and Data Reuse is critical for the resource-limited Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) accelerators. This paper presents Universal Computation Reuse to exploit weight sparsity, repetition, and similarity simultaneously in a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Alireza Khadem , Haojie Ye , Trevor Mudge

In this work, PRUNIX, a framework for training and pruning convolutional neural networks is proposed for deployment on memristor crossbar based accelerators. PRUNIX takes into account the numerous non-ideal effects of memristor crossbars…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Ali Alshaarawy , Amirali Amirsoleimani , Roman Genov

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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jihoon Park , Jeongin Choe , Dohyun Kim , Jae-Joon Kim

Redox-based resistive switching devices (ReRAM) are an emerging class of non-volatile storage elements suited for nanoscale memory applications. In terms of logic operations, ReRAM devices were suggested to be used as programmable…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-03-02 A. Siemon , S. Menzel , R. Waser , E. Linn

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

Systolic array accelerators execute CNNs with energy dominated by the switching activity of multiply accumulate (MAC) units. Although prior work exploits weight dependent MAC power for compression, existing methods often use global…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jiaxun Fang , Grace Li Zhang , Shaoyi Huang

Motivated by advantages of current-mode design, this brief contribution explores the implementation of weight matrices in neuromemristive systems via current-mode memristor crossbar circuits. After deriving theoretical results for the range…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-19 Cory Merkel

Memristive crossbar arrays enable in-memory computing by performing parallel analog computations directly within memory, making them well-suited for machine learning, neural networks, and neuromorphic systems. However, despite their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Muhammad Faheemur Rahman , Wayne Burleson

Memristors enable the computation of matrix-vector multiplications (MVM) in memory and, therefore, show great potential in highly increasing the energy efficiency of deep neural network (DNN) inference accelerators. However, computations in…

In-Memory Computing (IMC) hardware using Memristive Crossbar Arrays (MCAs) are gaining popularity to accelerate Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) since it alleviates the "memory wall" problem associated with von-Neumann architecture. The hardware…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Shubham Negi , Indranil Chakraborty , Aayush Ankit , Kaushik Roy

We present a novel cryptography architecture based on memristor crossbar array, binary hypervectors, and neural network. Utilizing the stochastic and unclonable nature of memristor crossbar and error tolerance of binary hypervectors and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Jack Cai , Amirali Amirsoleimani , Roman Genov

This paper makes a case for accelerating lattice-based post quantum cryptography (PQC) with memristor based crossbars, and shows that these inherently error-tolerant algorithms are a good fit for noisy analog MAC operations in crossbars. We…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Sarabjeet Singh , Xiong Fan , Ananth Krishna Prasad , Lin Jia , Anirban Nag , Rajeev Balasubramonian , Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi , Elaine Shi

The superior density of passive analog-grade memristive crossbars may enable storing large synaptic weight matrices directly on specialized neuromorphic chips, thus avoiding costly off-chip communication. To ensure efficient use of such…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Hyungjin Kim , Hussein Nili , Mahmood Mahmoodi , Dmitri Strukov

Analog crossbar architectures for accelerating neural network training and inference have made tremendous progress over the past several years. These architectures are ideal for dense layers with fewer than roughly a thousand neurons.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Jack D. Kendall , Ross D. Pantone , Juan C. Nino

Memristors are promising devices for scalable and low power, in-memory computing to improve the energy efficiency of a rising computational demand. The crossbar array architecture with memristors is used for vector matrix multiplication…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Neethu Kuriakose , Arun Ashok , Christian Grewing , André Zambanini , Stefan van Waasen

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

Photonic Microring Resonator (MRR) based hardware accelerators have been shown to provide disruptive speedup and energy-efficiency improvements for processing deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, previous MRR-based CNN…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Sairam Sri Vatsavai , Ishan G Thakkar

Traditional computing hardware often encounters on-chip memory bottleneck on large scale Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) applications. With its unique in-memory computing feature, resistive crossbar-based computing attracts researchers'…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Fan Zhang , Miao Hu