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Hybrid memory systems, comprised of emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) and DRAM, have been proposed to address the growing memory demand of applications. Emerging NVM technologies, such as phase-change memories (PCM), memristor, and 3D…

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Spatial dataflow architectures such as reconfigurable dataflow accelerators (RDA) can provide much higher performance and efficiency than CPUs and GPUs. In particular, vectorized reconfigurable dataflow accelerators (vRDA) in recent…

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly deployed in real-time and energy-constrained environments, driving demand for hardware platforms that can deliver high performance and power efficiency. While central processing units (CPUs) and…

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Development of modern integrated circuit technologies makes it feasible to develop cheaper, faster and smaller special purpose signal processing function circuits. Digital Signal processing functions are generally implemented either on…

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Deep learning (DL) is becoming the cornerstone of numerous applications both in datacenters and at the edge. Specialized hardware is often necessary to meet the performance requirements of state-of-the-art DL models, but the rapid pace of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Andrew Boutros , Aman Arora , Vaughn Betz

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be extremely accurate for image recognition, even outperforming human recognition capability. When deployed on battery-powered mobile devices, efficient computer architectures are required…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mehdi Ahmadi , Shervin Vakili , J. M. Pierre Langlois

Recent hardware acceleration advances have enabled powerful specialized accelerators for finite element computations, spiking neural network inference, and sparse tensor operations. However, existing approaches face fundamental limitations:…

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State-of-the-art (SOTA) compressed video super-resolution (CVSR) models face persistent challenges, including prolonged inference time, complex training pipelines, and reliance on auxiliary information. As video frame rates continue to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Zhaoyang Wang , Jie Li , Wen Lu , Lihuo He , Maoguo Gong , Xinbo Gao

Recent research has shown that large language models (LLMs) can utilize low-precision floating point (FP) quantization to deliver high efficiency while maintaining original model accuracy. In particular, recent works have shown the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Faraz Tahmasebi , Yian Wang , Benji Y. H. Huang , Hyoukjun Kwon

Fast and accurate numerical simulations are crucial for designing large-scale geological carbon storage projects ensuring safe long-term CO2 containment as a climate change mitigation strategy. These simulations involve solving numerous…

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Even with generational improvements in DRAM technology, memory access latency still remains the major bottleneck for application accelerators, primarily due to limitations in memory interface IPs which cannot fully account for variations in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Sasindu Wijeratne , Sanket Pattnaik , Zhiyu Chen , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Modern multicore systems are migrating from homogeneous systems to heterogeneous systems with accelerator-based computing in order to overcome the barriers of performance and power walls. In this trend, FPGA-based accelerators are becoming…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Zhe Lin , Sharad Sinha , Hao Liang , Liang Feng , Wei Zhang

Vector processors frequently suffer from inefficient memory accesses, particularly for strided and segment patterns. While coalescing strided accesses is a natural solution, effectively gathering or scattering elements at fixed strides…

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In this paper, we present Ara, a 64-bit vector processor based on the version 0.5 draft of RISC-V's vector extension, implemented in GlobalFoundries 22FDX FD-SOI technology. Ara's microarchitecture is scalable, as it is composed of a set of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Matheus Cavalcante , Fabian Schuiki , Florian Zaruba , Michael Schaffner , Luca Benini

Modern data-intensive applications demand high computation capabilities with strict power constraints. Unfortunately, such applications suffer from a significant waste of both execution cycles and energy in current computing systems due to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Gagandeep Singh , Mohammed Alser , Damla Senol Cali , Dionysios Diamantopoulos , Juan Gómez-Luna , Henk Corporaal , Onur Mutlu

The rapid emergence of edge computing platforms and large-scale data centers has made power efficiency a primary design constraint, particularly for data-intensive and AI-driven workloads. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are…

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Accurate simulations of various physical processes on digital computers requires huge computing performance, therefore accelerating these scientific and engineering applications has a great importance. Density of programmable logic devices…

Performance · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Zoltan Nagy , Csaba Nemes , Antal Hiba , Arpad Csik , Andras Kiss , Miklos Ruszinko , Peter Szolgay

Vision Transformer models, such as ViT, Swin Transformer, and Transformer-in-Transformer, have recently gained significant traction in computer vision tasks due to their ability to capture the global relation between features which leads to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Shashank Nag , Gourav Datta , Souvik Kundu , Nitin Chandrachoodan , Peter A. Beerel

With the development of deep neural network (DNN) enabled applications, achieving high hardware resource efficiency on diverse workloads is non-trivial in heterogeneous computing platforms. Prior works discuss dedicated architectures to…

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The memory wall bottleneck is a key challenge across many data-intensive applications. Multi-level FeFET-based embedded non-volatile memories are a promising solution for denser and more energy-efficient on-chip memory. However, reliable…

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