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To address the increasing computational demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, compute-in-memory (CIM) integrates memory and processing units into the same physical location, reducing the time and energy overhead of the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xiwen Liu , Keshava Katti , Yunfei He , Paul Jacob , Claudia Richter , Uwe Schroeder , Santosh Kurinec , Pratik Chaudhari , Deep Jariwala

In this work, we propose SEE-MCAM, scalable and compact multi-bit CAM (MCAM) designs that utilize the three-terminal ferroelectric FET (FeFET) as the proxy. By exploiting the multi-level-cell characteristics of FeFETs, our proposed SEE-MCAM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shengxi Shou , Che-Kai Liu , Sanggeon Yun , Zishen Wan , Kai Ni , Mohsen Imani , X. Sharon Hu , Jianyi Yang , Cheng Zhuo , Xunzhao Yin

Pattern search is crucial in numerous analytic applications for retrieving data entries akin to the query. Content Addressable Memories (CAMs), an in-memory computing fabric, directly compare input queries with stored entries through…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Chenyu Ni , Sijie Chen , Che-Kai Liu , Liu Liu , Mohsen Imani , Thomas Kampfe , Kai Ni , Michael Niemier , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Cheng Zhuo , Xunzhao Yin

Content addressable memory (CAM) is widely used in associative search tasks for its highly parallel pattern matching capability. To accommodate the increasingly complex and data-intensive pattern matching tasks, it is critical to keep…

Analog Content Addressable Memories (aCAMs) have proven useful for associative in-memory computing applications like Decision Trees, Finite State Machines, and Hyper-dimensional Computing. While non-volatile implementations using FeFETs and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Paul-Philipp Manea , Nathan Leroux , Emre Neftci , John Paul Strachan

As a promising alternative to the Von Neumann architecture, in-memory computing holds the promise of delivering high computing capacity while consuming low power. Content addressable memory (CAM) can implement pattern matching and distance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-10 Zijing Zhao , Junzhe Kang , Ashwin Tunga , Hojoon Ryu , Ankit Shukla , Shaloo Rakheja , Wenjuan Zhu

A content addressable memory (CAM) is a type of memory that implements a parallel search engine at its core. A CAM takes as an input a value and outputs the address where this value is stored in case of a match. CAMs are used in a wide…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Yousra Alkabani , Mario Miscuglio , Volker J. Sorger , Tarek El-Ghazawi

Content Addressable Memories (CAMs) are considered a key-enabler for in-memory computing (IMC). IMC shows order of magnitude improvement in energy efficiency and throughput compared to traditional computing techniques. Recently, analog CAMs…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Jinane Bazzi , Jana Sweidan , Mohammed E. Fouda , Rouwaida Kanj , Ahmed M. Eltawil

Content addressable memory is popular in intelligent computing systems as it allows parallel content-searching in memory. Emerging CAMs show a promising increase in bitcell density and a decrease in power consumption than pure CMOS…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Yihan Pan , Adrian Wheeldon , Mohammed Mughal , Shady Agwa , Themis Prodromakis , Alexantrou Serb

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…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shamiul Alam , Simon Thomann , Shivendra Singh Parihar , Yogesh Singh Chauhan , Kai Ni , Hussam Amrouch , Ahmedullah Aziz

Ternary content addressable memory (TCAM), widely used in network routers and high-associativity caches, is gaining popularity in machine learning and data-analytic applications. Ferroelectric FETs (FeFETs) are a promising candidate for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Liu Liu , Shubham Kumar , Simon Thomann , Yogesh Singh Chauhan , Hussam Amrouch , Xiaobo Sharon Hu

Compute-in-memory (CiM) is a promising approach to alleviating the memory wall problem for domain-specific applications. Compared to current-domain CiM solutions, charge-domain CiM shows the opportunity for higher energy efficiency and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Guodong Yin , Yi Cai , Juejian Wu , Zhengyang Duan , Zhenhua Zhu , Yongpan Liu , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang , Xueqing Li

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence have given rise to transformative models, profoundly impacting our lives. These models demand massive volumes of data to operate effectively, exacerbating the data-transfer bottleneck inherent…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Zhicheng Xu , Che-Kai Liu , Chao Li , Ruibin Mao , Jianyi Yang , Thomas Kämpfe , Mohsen Imani , Can Li , Cheng Zhuo , Xunzhao Yin

In-memory computing (IMC) architecture emerges as a promising paradigm, improving the energy efficiency of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations within DNNs by integrating the parallel computations within the memory arrays. Various…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zeyu Yang , Qingrong Huang , Yu Qian , Kai Ni , Thomas Kämpfe , Xunzhao Yin

Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance in various natural language processing (NLP) applications. However, the high memory and computation cost induced by the KV cache limits the inference…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Weikai Xu , Wenxuan Zeng , Qianqian Huang , Meng Li , Ru Huang

In scenarios with limited training data or where explainability is crucial, conventional neural network-based machine learning models often face challenges. In contrast, Bayesian inference-based algorithms excel in providing interpretable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Chao Li , Zhicheng Xu , Bo Wen , Ruibin Mao , Can Li , Thomas Kämpfe , Kai Ni , Xunzhao Yin

A low-power Content-Addressable-Memory (CAM) is introduced employing a new mechanism for associativity between the input tags and the corresponding address of the output data. The proposed architecture is based on a recently developed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hooman Jarollahi , Vincent Gripon , Naoya Onizawa , Warren J. Gross

The deluge of sensors and data generating devices has driven a paradigm shift in modern computing from arithmetic-logic centric to data-centric processing. Data-centric processing require innovations at device level to enable novel…

In this work, we propose a ferroelectric FET(FeFET) time-domain compute-in-memory (TD-CiM) array as a homogeneous processing fabric for binary multiplication-accumulation (MAC) and content addressable memory (CAM). We demonstrate that: i)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Xunzhao Yin , Qingrong Huang , Franz Müller , Shan Deng , Alptekin Vardar , Sourav De , Zhouhang Jiang , Mohsen Imani , Cheng Zhuo , Thomas Kämpfe , Kai Ni
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