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SRAM-based cache memory faces several scalability limitations in deep nanoscale technologies, e.g., high leakage current, low cell stability, and low density. Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies have received lots of attention…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Elham Cheshmikhani , Fateme Shokouhinia , Hamed Farbeh

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a widely used sampling method in modern artificial intelligence and probabilistic computing systems. It involves repetitive random number generations and thus often dominates the latency of probabilistic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yihan Fu , Daijing Shi , Anjunyi Fan , Wenshuo Yue , Yuchao Yang , Ru Huang , Bonan Yan

Progress in artificial intelligence and machine learning over the past decade has been driven by the ability to train larger deep neural networks (DNNs), leading to a compute demand that far exceeds the growth in hardware performance…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Sourjya Roy , Cheng Wang , Anand Raghunathan

Conventional low-power static random access memories (SRAMs) reduce read energy by decreasing the bit-line voltage swings uniformly across the bit-line columns. This is because the read energy is proportional to the bit-line swings. On the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Yongjune Kim , Mingu Kang , Lav R. Varshney , Naresh R. Shanbhag

In modern systems, DRAM-based main memory is significantly slower than the processor. Consequently, processors spend a long time waiting to access data from main memory, making the long main memory access latency one of the most critical…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Donghyuk Lee

As one of the most promising emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies, spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) has attracted significant research attention due to several features such as high density, zero…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Lizhou Wu , Mottaqiallah Taouil , Siddharth Rao , Erik Jan Marinissen , Said Hamdioui

Spin Transfer Torque RAM (STTRAM) is a promising candidate for Last Level Cache (LLC) due to high endurance, high density and low leakage. One of the major disadvantages of STTRAM is high write latency and write current. Additionally, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Nitin Rathi , Helia Naeimi , Swaroop Ghosh

Reservoir Computing (RC) models, a subclass of recurrent neural networks, are distinguished by their fixed, non-trainable input layer and dynamically coupled reservoir, with only the static readout layer being trained. This design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Robert Simon Fong , Boyu Li , Peter Tiňo

Resistive random-access memory (RRAM) is gaining popularity due to its ability to offer computing within the memory and its non-volatile nature. The unique properties of RRAM, such as binary switching, multi-state switching, and device…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Simranjeet Singh , Farhad Merchant , Sachin Patkar

This paper summarizes our work on experimental characterization and analysis of reduced-voltage operation in modern DRAM chips, which was published in SIGMETRICS 2017, and examines the work's significance and future potential. We take a…

The SRAM cell is made up of latch, which ensures that the cell data is preserved as long as power is turned on and refresh operation is not required for the SRAM cell. SRAM is widely used for on-chip cache memory in microprocessors, game…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Apollos Ezeogu

Embedded non-volatile memory technologies such as resistive random access memory (RRAM) and spin-transfer torque magnetic RAM (STT MRAM) are increasingly being researched for application in neuromorphic computing and hardware accelerators…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Debasis Das , Xuanyao Fong

Although we may be at the end of Moore's law, lowering chip power consumption is still the primary driving force for the designers. To enable low-power operation, we propose a resonant energy recovery static random access memory (SRAM). We…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Riadul Islam , Biprangshu Saha , Ignatius Bezzam

The increasing computational demand of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) necessitates energy-efficient acceleration strategies. Compute-in-Memory (CIM) architectures based on Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) offer a promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 José Cubero-Cascante , Rebecca Pelke , Noah Flohr , Arunkumar Vaidyanathan , Rainer Leupers , Jan Moritz Joseph

Memory accounts for a considerable portion of the total power budget and area of digital systems. Furthermore, it is typically the performance bottleneck of the processing units. Therefore, it is critical to optimize the memory with respect…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Ghasem Pasandi , Raghav Mehta , Massoud Pedram , Shahin Nazarian

As dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and other current transistor-based memories approach their scalability limits, the search for alternative storage methods becomes increasingly urgent. Phase-change memory (PCM) emerges as a promising…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mahek Desai , Rowena Quinn , Marjan Asadinia

Prior studies have shown that the retention time of the non-volatile spin-transfer torque RAM (STT-RAM) can be relaxed in order to reduce STT-RAM's write energy and latency. However, since different applications may require different…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Dhruv Gajaria , Kyle Kuan , Tosiron Adegbija

The inherent dynamics of the neuron membrane potential in Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) allows processing of sequential learning tasks, avoiding the complexity of recurrent neural networks. The highly-sparse spike-based computations in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Amogh Agrawal , Mustafa Ali , Minsuk Koo , Nitin Rathi , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Kaushik Roy

State-of-the-art in-memory computation has recently emerged as the most promising solution to overcome design challenges related to data movement inside current computing systems. One of the approaches to performing in-memory computation is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Saeed Seyedfaraji , Baset Mesgari , Semeen Rehman

Resistive Random Access Memories (RRAMs) are being studied by the industry and academia because it is widely accepted that they are promising candidates for the next generation of high density nonvolatile memories. Taking into account the…