English
Related papers

Related papers: A Low Power In-Memory Multiplication andAccumulati…

200 papers

This paper presents a PVT-resilient, subthreshold SRAM-based computing-in-memory (CIM) macro tailored for energy-efficient spiking neural networks (SNNs). The macro integrates in-situ current sensors and distributed voltage regulators to…

Neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence (AI) excels at learning from noisy and generalized patterns, conducting logical inferences, and providing interpretable reasoning. Comprising a 'neuro' component for feature extraction and a 'symbolic'…

In-memory computing is a promising non-von Neumann approach for making energy-efficient deep learning inference hardware. Crossbar arrays of resistive memory devices can be used to encode the network weights and perform efficient analog…

Deep learning hardware designs have been bottlenecked by conventional memories such as SRAM due to density, leakage and parallel computing challenges. Resistive devices can address the density and volatility issues, but have been limited by…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Shihui Yin , Xiaoyu Sun , Shimeng Yu , Jae-sun Seo

Barrett's algorithm is one of the most widely used methods for performing modular multiplication, a critical nonlinear operation in modern privacy computing techniques such as homomorphic encryption (HE) and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Haomin Li , Fangxin Liu , Chenyang Guan , Zongwu Wang , Li Jiang , Haibing Guan

Non-volatile memory (NVM) based compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerators have emerged as a sustainable solution to significantly boost energy efficiency and minimize latency for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) inference due to their in-situ data…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yifan Qin , Zheyu Yan , Wujie Wen , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

The need to repeatedly shuttle around synaptic weight values from memory to processing units has been a key source of energy inefficiency associated with hardware implementation of artificial neural networks. Analog in-memory computing…

The design of systems implementing low precision neural networks with emerging memories such as resistive random access memory (RRAM) is a major lead for reducing the energy consumption of artificial intelligence (AI). Multiple works have…

SRAM Processing-in-Memory (PIM) has emerged as the most promising implementation for high-performance PIM, delivering superior computing density, energy efficiency, and computational precision. However, the pursuit of higher performance…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yuanpeng Zhang , Xing Hu , Xi Chen , Zhihang Yuan , Cong Li , Jingchen Zhu , Zhao Wang , Chenguang Zhang , Xin Si , Wei Gao , Qiang Wu , Runsheng Wang , Guangyu Sun

Compute-In-Memory (CiM) is a promising solution to accelerate Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) as it can avoid energy-intensive DNN weight movement and use memory arrays to perform low-energy, high-density computations. These benefits have…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Tanner Andrulis , Joel S. Emer , Vivienne Sze

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as LLaMA and DeepSeek, are built on transformer architectures, which have become a standard model for achieving state-of-the-art performance in natural language processing tasks. Recently, there has been…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Bas Ahn , Xingjian Tao , Manil Dev Gomony , Marc Geilen , Henk Corporaal

The rise of data-intensive applications exposed the limitations of conventional processor-centric von-Neumann architectures that struggle to meet the off-chip memory bandwidth demand. Therefore, recent innovations in computer architecture…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Asif Ali Khan , Hamid Farzaneh , Karl F. A. Friebel , Clément Fournier , Lorenzo Chelini , Jeronimo Castrillon

Matrix multiplication is the dominant computation during Machine Learning (ML) inference. To efficiently perform such multiplication operations, Compute-in-memory (CiM) paradigms have emerged as a highly energy efficient solution. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Tanvi Sharma , Mustafa Ali , Indranil Chakraborty , Kaushik Roy

Processing-in-memory (PIM) seeks to eliminate computation/memory data transfer using devices that support both storage and logic. Stateful logic techniques such as IMPLY, MAGIC and FELIX can perform logic gates within memristive crossbar…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Orian Leitersdorf , Ronny Ronen , Shahar Kvatinsky

Convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves excellent performance on fascinating tasks such as image recognition and natural language processing at the cost of high power consumption. Stochastic computing (SC) is an attractive paradigm…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-24 Xinyue Zhang , Yuan Wang , Yawen Zhang , Jiahao Song , Zuodong Zhang , Kaili Cheng , Runsheng Wang , Ru Huang

This work presents E-ReCON, a 16 Kb energy and resource-efficient digital compute-in-memory (DCIM) macro based on a compact 3T1R ReRAM bitcell for edge-AI inference. The proposed bitcell occupies only 0.85 um^2 and supports reliable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ankit Kumar Tenwar , Mukul Lokhande , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

Leveraging the high density and energy efficiency of Compute-In-Memory (CIM) crossbar-based Deep Neural Network (DNN) accelerators requires optimal Design Space Exploration (DSE), which becomes increasingly challenging as complex models for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Arnob Saha , Bibhas Manna , Nikhil Kotikalapudi , Md Zesun Ahmed Mia , Rahul Kumar , Madhavan Swaminathan , Abhronil Sengupta

The proliferation of Transformer models is often constrained by the significant computational and memory bandwidth demands of deployment. To address this, we present MXFormer, a novel, hybrid, weight-stationary Compute-in-Memory (CIM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-16 George Karfakis , Samyak Chakrabarty , Vinod Kurian Jacob , Siyun Qiao , Subramanian S. Iyer , Sudhakar Pamarti , Puneet Gupta

In recent years, processing in memory (PIM) based mixedsignal designs have been proposed as energy- and area-efficient solutions with ultra high throughput to accelerate DNN computations. However, PIM designs are sensitive to imperfections…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Payman Behnam , Uday Kamal , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Compute-in-Memory (CIM) architectures have been widely studied for deep neural network (DNN) acceleration by reducing data transfer overhead between the memory and computing units. In conventional CIM design flows, system-level CIM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Ming-Yen Lee , Shimeng Yu