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Non-volatile Memory (NVM) technologies present a promising alternative to traditional volatile memories such as SRAM and DRAM. Due to the limited availability of real NVM devices, simulators play a crucial role in architectural exploration…

Processing-in-memory (PIM) has shown extraordinary potential in accelerating neural networks. To evaluate the performance of PIM accelerators, we present an ISA-based simulation framework including a dedicated ISA targeting neural networks…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Xinyu Wang , Xiaotian Sun , Yinhe Han , Xiaoming Chen

Computing-in-Memory (CIM) has shown great potential for enhancing efficiency and performance for deep neural networks (DNNs). However, the lack of flexibility in CIM leads to an unnecessary expenditure of computational resources on less…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yung-Chin Chen , Shimpei Ando , Daichi Fujiki , Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki , Kentaro Yoshioka

Developing simple, sample-efficient learning algorithms for robust classification is a pressing issue in today's tech-dominated world, and current theoretical techniques requiring exponential sample complexity and complicated improper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Robi Bhattacharjee , Max Hopkins , Akash Kumar , Hantao Yu , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Data movement between memory and processors is a major bottleneck in modern computing systems. The processing-in-memory (PIM) paradigm aims to alleviate this bottleneck by performing computation inside memory chips. Real PIM hardware (e.g.,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Jinfan Chen , Juan Gómez-Luna , Izzat El Hajj , Yuxin Guo , Onur Mutlu

Quantum compiling aims to construct a quantum circuit V by quantum gates drawn from a native gate alphabet, which is functionally equivalent to the target unitary U. It is a crucial stage for the running of quantum algorithms on noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Zhimin He , Lvzhou Li , Shenggen Zheng , Yongyao Li , Haozhen Situ

Flexibility at hardware level is the main driving force behind adaptive systems whose aim is to realise microarhitecture deconfiguration 'online'. This feature allows the software/hardware stack to tolerate drastic changes of the workload…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Ana Lava , Mahdi Jelodari Mamaghani , Siamak Mohammadi , Steve Furber

A high-speed random number generator (RNG) circuit based on magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) using an error-correcting code (ECC) post processing circuit is presented. ECC post processing increases the quality of randomness by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Tetsufumi Tanamoto , Naoharu Shimomura , Sumio Ikegawa , Mari Matsumoto , Shinobu Fujita , Hiroaki Yoda

Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM) based Processing In Memory (PIM) Accelerator has emerged as a promising computing architecture for memory intensive applications, such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, due to its immaturity,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Je-Woo Jang , Thai-Hoang Nguyen , Joon-Sung Yang

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

With deep learning and computer vision technology development, autonomous driving provides new solutions to improve traffic safety and efficiency. The importance of building high-quality datasets is self-evident, especially with the rise of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Guohang Yan , Jiahao Pi , Jianfei Guo , Zhaotong Luo , Min Dou , Nianchen Deng , Qiusheng Huang , Daocheng Fu , Licheng Wen , Pinlong Cai , Xing Gao , Xinyu Cai , Bo Zhang , Xuemeng Yang , Yeqi Bai , Hongbin Zhou , Botian Shi

Using Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) crossbars in Computing-in-Memory (CIM) architectures offers a promising solution to overcome the von Neumann bottleneck. Due to non-idealities like cell variability, RRAM crossbars are often…

In recent years, various computing-in-memory (CIM) processors have been presented, showing superior performance over traditional architectures. To unleash the potential of various CIM architectures, such as device precision, crossbar size,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Songyun Qu , Shixin Zhao , Bing Li , Yintao He , Xuyi Cai , Lei Zhang , Ying Wang

Recent works propose neural network- (NN-) inspired analog-to-digital converters (NNADCs) and demonstrate their great potentials in many emerging applications. These NNADCs often rely on resistive random-access memory (RRAM) devices to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Weidong Cao , Liu Ke , Ayan Chakrabarti , Xuan Zhang

The emerging field of quantum resource estimation is aimed at providing estimates of the hardware requirements (`quantum resources') needed to execute a useful, fault-tolerant quantum computation. Given that quantum computers are intended…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Alan Robertson , Haowen Gao , Yuval R. Sanders

Recently Resistive-RAM (RRAM) crossbar has been used in the design of the accelerator of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to solve the memory wall issue. However, the intensive multiply-accumulate computations (MACs) executed at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-10 Xizi Chen , Jingyang Zhu , Jingbo Jiang , Chi-Ying Tsui

Different from developing neural networks (NNs) for general-purpose processors, the development for NN chips usually faces with some hardware-specific restrictions, such as limited precision of network signals and parameters, constrained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Yu Ji , YouHui Zhang , WenGuang Chen , Yuan Xie

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge retrieval but faces challenges on edge devices due to high storage, energy, and latency demands. Computing-in-Memory (CIM) offers a…

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices impose dual challenges on quantum circuit execution: limited qubit connectivity requires extensive SWAP-gate routing, while time-dependent decoherence progressively degrades quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Yifei Huang , Pascal Jahan Elahi , Ugo Varetto , Kan He , Jinchuan Hou , Shusen Liu

We present an RL-driven compiler that jointly optimizes ASIC architecture, memory hierarchy, and workload partitioning for AI inference across 3nm to 28nm. The design space is formulated as a single Markov Decision Process with mixed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ravindra Ganti , Steve Xu