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The emergence of Phase-Change Memory (PCM) provides opportunities for directly connecting persistent memory to main memory bus. While PCM achieves high read throughput and low standby power, the critical concerns are its poor write…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yinjin Fu

Recent advances in integrated photonics enable the implementation of reconfigurable, high-bandwidth, and low energy-per-bit interconnects in next-generation data centers. We propose and evaluate an Optically Connected Memory (OCM)…

The continuous shift of computational bottlenecks to the memory access and data transfer, especially for AI applications, poses the urgent needs of re-engineering the computer architecture fundamentals. Many edge computing applications,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Georgios Papandroulidakis , Shady Agwa , Ahmet Cirakoglu , Themis Prodromakis

Let $[q\rangle$ denote the integer set $\{0,1,\ldots,...,q-1\}$ and let $\mathbb{B}=\{0,1\}$. The problem of implementing functions $[q\rangle\rightarrow\mathbb{B}$ on content-addressable memories (CAMs) is considered. CAMs can be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ron M. Roth

Single ferroelectric memcapacitor-based time-domain (TD) content-addressable memory (CAM) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated for high reliability and density. The proposed TD CAM features the symmetric capacitance-voltage…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Minjeong Ryu , Jae Seung Woo , Yeonwoo Kim , Woo Young Choi

Ternary content addressable memories (TCAMs) are useful for certain computing tasks since they allow us to compare a search query with a whole dataset stored in the memory array. They can also unlock unique advantages for cryogenic…

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Optical computing has been recently proposed as a new compute paradigm to meet the demands of future AI/ML workloads in datacenters and supercomputers. However, proposed implementations so far suffer from lack of scalability, large…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Daniel Sturm , Sajjad Moazeni

Content-Addressable Memory (CAM) is a powerful abstraction for building memory caches, routing tables and hazard detection logic. Without a native CAM structure available on FPGA devices, their functionality must be emulated using the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Thomas B. Preußer , Monica Chiosa , Alexander Weiss , Gustavo Alonso

Fast parallel search capabilities on large datasets provided by content addressable memories (CAM) are required across multiple application domains. However compared to RAM, CAMs feature high area overhead and power consumption, and as a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Leonid Yavits

We present QCAM, a quantum analogue of Content-Addressable Memory (CAM), useful for finding matches in two sequences of bit-strings. Our QCAM implementation takes advantage of Grover's search algorithm and proposes a highly-optimized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Jan Balewski , Daan Camps , Katherine Klymko , Andrew Tritt

Phase Change Memory (PCM) is an attractive candidate for main memory as it offers non-volatility and zero leakage power, while providing higher cell densities, longer data retention time, and higher capacity scaling compared to DRAM. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Aditya Narayan , Yvain Thonnart , Pascal Vivet , Ayse K. Coskun , Ajay Joshi

Optical camera communication (OCC) represents a promising visible light communication technology. Nonetheless, typical OCC systems utilizing frame-based cameras are encumbered by limitations, including low bit rate and high processing load.…

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Analog content-addressable memories (aCAMs) based on memristors provide a promising pathway toward energy-efficient large-scale associative computing for Edge AI and embedded intelligence applications. They have been successfully applied to…

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The significant advancements in integrated photonics have enabled high-speed and energy efficient systems for various applications from data communications and high-performance computing, to medical diagnosis, sensing and ranging. However,…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-07 Farshid Ashtiani

Realizing today's cloud-level artificial intelligence functionalities directly on devices distributed at the edge of the internet calls for edge hardware capable of processing multiple modalities of sensory data (e.g. video, audio) at…

Recent advances in machine learning and neuro-inspired systems enabled the increased interest in efficient pattern recognition at the edge. A wide variety of applications, such as near-sensor classification, require fast and low-power…

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The rapid surge in data generated by Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) applications demands ultra-fast, scalable, and energy-efficient hardware, as traditional von Neumann architectures face…

Integrated photonic convolution processors make optical neural networks (ONNs) a transformative solution for artificial intelligence applications such as machine vision. To enhance the parallelism, throughput, and energy efficiency of ONNs,…

Decision trees are considered one of the most powerful tools for data classification. Accelerating the decision tree search is crucial for on-the-edge applications that have limited power and latency budget. In this paper, we propose a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Mariam Rakka , Mohammed E. Fouda , Rouwaida Kanj , Fadi Kurdahi

On-device agents on smartphones increasingly require continuously evolving memory to support personalized, context-aware, and long-term behaviors. To meet both privacy and responsiveness demands, user data is embedded as vectors and stored…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xinkui Zhao , Qingyu Ma , Yifan Zhang , Hengxuan Lou , Guanjie Cheng , Shuiguang Deng , Jianwei Yin