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Deep neural network inference accelerators are rapidly growing in importance as we turn to massively parallelized processing beyond GPUs and ASICs. The dominant operation in feedforward inference is the multiply-and-accumlate process, where…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Jason K. Eshraghian , Kyoungrok Cho , Sung Mo Kang

This paper makes a case for accelerating lattice-based post quantum cryptography (PQC) with memristor based crossbars, and shows that these inherently error-tolerant algorithms are a good fit for noisy analog MAC operations in crossbars. We…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Sarabjeet Singh , Xiong Fan , Ananth Krishna Prasad , Lin Jia , Anirban Nag , Rajeev Balasubramonian , Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi , Elaine Shi

The progress in the field of neural computation hinges on the use of hardware more efficient than the conventional microprocessors. Recent works have shown that mixed-signal integrated memristive circuits, especially their passive ('0T1R')…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-12-05 F. Merrikh Bayat , M. Prezioso , B. Chakrabarti , I. Kataeva , D. Strukov

For decades, advances in electronics were directly driven by the scaling of CMOS transistors according to Moore's law. However, both the CMOS scaling and the classical computer architecture are approaching fundamental and practical limits,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Mohammed A. Zidan , YeonJoo Jeong , Jong Hong Shin , Chao Du , Zhengya Zhang , Wei D. Lu

Memristor crossbars enable vector-matrix multiplication (VMM), and are promising for low-power applications. However, it can be difficult to write the memristor conductance values exactly. To improve the accuracy of VMM, we propose a scheme…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Binyu Lu , Matthias Frey , Stark Draper , Jingge Zhu

Deep Learning neural networks are pervasive, but traditional computer architectures are reaching the limits of being able to efficiently execute them for the large workloads of today. They are limited by the von Neumann bottleneck: the high…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Wilfried Haensch , Anand Raghunathan , Kaushik Roy , Bhaswar Chakrabarti , Charudatta M. Phatak , Cheng Wang , Supratik Guha

Memristive devices have revolutionized non-volatile memory and neuromorphic computing, yet the geometry of their hysteresis loops -- in particular, the occurrence and robustness of multiple self-crossings -- remains poorly understood. Here…

In-memory analog matrix computing (AMC) with resistive random-access memory (RRAM) represents a highly promising solution that solves matrix problems in one step. However, the existing AMC circuits each have a specific connection topology…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lunshuai Pan , Shiqing Wang , Pushen Zuo , Zhong Sun

Lifelong on-device learning is a key challenge for machine intelligence, and this requires learning from few, often single, samples. Memory augmented neural network has been proposed to achieve the goal, but the memory module has to be…

The surge in AI usage demands innovative power reduction strategies. Novel Compute-in-Memory (CIM) architectures, leveraging advanced memory technologies, hold the potential for significantly lowering energy consumption by integrating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 José Cubero-Cascante , Arunkumar Vaidyanathan , Rebecca Pelke , Lorenzo Pfeifer , Rainer Leupers , Jan Moritz Joseph

Task arithmetic, representing downstream tasks through linear operations on task vectors, has emerged as a simple yet powerful paradigm for transferring knowledge across diverse settings. However, maintaining a large collection of task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Siqi Zeng , Yifei He , Meitong Liu , Weiqiu You , Yifan Hao , Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Makoto Yamada , Han Zhao

Multi-core neuromorphic systems typically use on-chip routers to transmit spikes among cores. These routers require significant memory resources and consume a large part of the overall system's energy budget. A promising alternative…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Junren Chen , Siyao Yang , Huaqiang Wu , Giacomo Indiveri , Melika Payvand

Memristive crossbars store numerical weights needing aggregation and decoding; a single junction means nothing alone. This paper presents a fundamentally different use: each junction stores a complete, domain-scoped logical assertion…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Chao Li

Resistive random access memory (RRAM) is very well known for its potential application in in-memory and neural computing. However, they often have different types of device-to-device and cycle-to-cycle variability. This makes it harder to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Rajalekshmi TR , Rinku Rani Das , Chithra R , Alex James

This paper presents a novel framework for designing support vector machines (SVMs), which does not impose restriction on the SVM kernel to be positive-definite and allows the user to define memory constraint in terms of fixed template…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-07 P. Kumar , A. R. Nair , O. Chatterjee , T. Paul , A. Ghosh , S. Chakrabartty , C. S. Thakur

We experimentally demonstrate classification of 4x4 binary images into 4 classes, using a 3-layer mixed-signal neuromorphic network ("MLP perceptron"), based on two passive 20x20 memristive crossbar arrays, board-integrated with discrete…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-15 F. Merrikh Bayat , M. Prezioso , B. Chakrabarti , I. Kataeva , D. B. Strukov

Memristive crossbars enable in-memory multiply-accumulate and local plasticity learning, offering a path to energy-efficient edge AI. To this end, we present Open-MENA (Open Memristor-in-Memory Accelerator), which, to our knowledge, is the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ali Safa , Farida Mohsen , Zainab Ali , Bo Wang , Amine Bermak

Practical memristor came into picture just few years back and instantly became the topic of interest for researchers and scientists. Memristor is the fourth basic two-terminal passive circuit element apart from well known resistor,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Tejinder Singh

Resistive Random-Access Memory (ReRAM) crossbar arrays are promising candidates for in-situ matrix-vector multiplication (MVM), a frequent operation in Deep Learning algorithms. Despite their advantages, these emerging non-volatile memories…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Benyamin Khezeli , Hamid Reza Zarandi , Elham Cheshmikhani

Volatile memristors have recently gained popularity as promising devices for neuromorphic circuits, capable of mimicking the leaky function of neurons and offering advantages over capacitor-based circuits in terms of power dissipation and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Tanay Patni , Rishona Daniels , Shahar Kvatinsky