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This work discusses memory-immersed collaborative digitization among compute-in-memory (CiM) arrays to minimize the area overheads of a conventional analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for deep learning inference. Thereby, using the proposed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Shamma Nasrin , Maeesha Binte Hashem , Nastaran Darabi , Benjamin Parpillon , Farah Fahim , Wilfred Gomes , Amit Ranjan Trivedi

As SRAM-based caches are hitting a scaling wall, manufacturers are integrating DRAM-based caches into system designs to continue increasing cache sizes. While DRAM caches can improve the performance of memory systems, existing DRAM cache…

The widespread integration of embedded systems across various industries has facilitated seamless connectivity among devices and bolstered computational capabilities. Despite their extensive applications, embedded systems encounter…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Sreenitha Kasarapu , Sathwika Bavikadi , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

Memory optimization for deep neural network (DNN) inference gains high relevance with the emergence of TinyML, which refers to the deployment of DNN inference tasks on tiny, low-power microcontrollers. Applications such as audio keyword…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Rafael Stahl , Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder , Ulf Schlichtmann

In this work, we propose "TimeFloats," an efficient train-in-memory architecture that performs 8-bit floating-point scalar product operations in the time domain. While building on the compute-in-memory paradigm's integrated storage and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Maeesha Binte Hashem , Benjamin Parpillon , Divake Kumar , Dinithi Jayasuria , Amit Ranjan Trivedi

Triangle counting (TC) is a fundamental problem in graph analysis and has found numerous applications, which motivates many TC acceleration solutions in the traditional computing platforms like GPU and FPGA. However, these approaches suffer…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Xueyan Wang , Jianlei Yang , Yinglin Zhao , Yingjie Qi , Meichen Liu , Xingzhou Cheng , Xiaotao Jia , Xiaoming Chen , Gang Qu , Weisheng Zhao

The increasing prevalence and growing size of data in modern applications have led to high costs for computation in traditional processor-centric computing systems. Moving large volumes of data between memory devices (e.g., DRAM) and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Geraldo F. Oliveira , Juan Gómez-Luna , Saugata Ghose , Onur Mutlu

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…

DRAM is the primary technology used for main memory in modern systems. Unfortunately, as DRAM scales down to smaller technology nodes, it faces key challenges in both data integrity and latency, which strongly affect overall system…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Hasan Hassan

Computing-in-memory (CIM) is proposed to alleviate the processor-memory data transfer bottleneck in traditional Von-Neumann architectures, and spintronics-based magnetic memory has demonstrated many facilitation in implementing CIM…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Xueyan Wang , Jianlei Yang , Yinglin Zhao , Xiaotao Jia , Gang Qu , Weisheng Zhao

The current mobile applications have rapidly growing memory footprints, posing a great challenge for memory system design. Insufficient DRAM main memory will incur frequent data swaps between memory and storage, a process that hurts…

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

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) increases the requirement for edge computing with low power and relatively high processing speed devices. The Computing-In-Memory(CIM) schemes based on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Yewei Zhang , Kejie Huang , Rui Xiao , Haibin Shen

Processing-in-memory (PIM) is a transformative architectural paradigm designed to overcome the Von Neumann bottleneck. Among PIM architectures, digital SRAM-PIM emerges as a promising solution, offering significant advantages by directly…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Cenlin Duan , Jianlei Yang , Yikun Wang , Yiou Wang , Yingjie Qi , Xiaolin He , Bonan Yan , Xueyan Wang , Xiaotao Jia , Weisheng Zhao

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

This paper summarizes our work on experimentally analyzing, exploiting, and addressing vulnerabilities in multi-level cell NAND flash memory programming, which was published in the industrial session of HPCA 2017, and examines the work's…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Yu Cai , Saugata Ghose , Yixin Luo , Ken Mai , Onur Mutlu , Erich F. Haratsch

The energy consumed by running large deep neural networks (DNNs) on hardware accelerators is dominated by the need for lots of fast memory to store both states and weights. This large required memory is currently only economically viable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Tobi Delbruck , Shih-Chii Liu

Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) is an essential mathematical tool for computing polynomial multiplication in promising lattice-based cryptography. However, costly division operations and complex data dependencies make efficient and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Jingyao Zhang , Mohsen Imani , Elaheh Sadredini

The Von-Neumann bottleneck is a clear limitation for data-intensive applications, bringing in-memory computing (IMC) solutions to the fore. Since large data sets are usually stored in nonvolatile memory (NVM), various solutions have been…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 M. Ezzadeen , D. Bosch , B. Giraud , S. Barraud , J. -P. Noel , D. Lattard , J. Lacord , J. -M. Portal , F. Andrieu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), as a subset of Machine Learning (ML) techniques, entail that real-world data can be learned and that decisions can be made in real-time. However, their wide adoption is hindered by a number of software and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Kamilya Smagulova , Mohammed E. Fouda , Fadi Kurdahi , Khaled Salama , Ahmed Eltawil

The conventional approach of moving data to the CPU for computation has become a significant performance bottleneck for emerging scale-out data-intensive applications due to their limited data reuse. At the same time, the advancement in 3D…