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Emerging nano-scale programmable Resistive-RAM (RRAM) has been identified as a promising technology for implementing brain-inspired computing hardware. Several neural network architectures, that essentially involve computation of scalar…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Aranya Goswamy , Sagar Kumashi , Vikash Sehwag , Siddharth Kumar Singh , Manny Jain , Kaushik Roy , Mrigank Sharad

In-DRAM Processing-In-Memory (DRAM-PIM) has emerged as a promising approach to accelerate memory-intensive workloads by mitigating data transfer overhead between DRAM and the host processor. Bit-serial DRAM-PIM architectures, further…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Siyuan Ma , Jiajun Hu , Jeeho Ryoo , Aman Arora , Lizy Kurian John

High-performance computing systems are moving towards 2.5D and 3D memory hierarchies, based on High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) to mitigate the main memory bottlenecks. This trend is also creating new opportunities…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Erfan Azarkhish , Davide Rossi , Igor Loi , Luca Benini

Large language model (LLM) inference has been a prevalent demand in daily life and industries. The large tensor sizes and computing complexities in LLMs have brought challenges to memory, computing, and databus. This paper proposes a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yimin Wang , Yue Jiet Chong , Xuanyao Fong

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a biologically inspired alternative to conventional deep networks, offering event-driven and energy-efficient computation. However, their throughput remains constrained by the serial update of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Hongyang Shang , Shuai Dong , Yahan Yang , Junyi Yang , Peng Zhou , Arindam Basu

The human brain simultaneously optimizes synaptic weights and topology by growing, pruning, and strengthening synapses while performing all computation entirely in memory. In contrast, modern artificial-intelligence systems separate weight…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Songqi Wang , Yue Zhang , Jia Chen , Xinyuan Zhang , Yi Li , Ning Lin , Yangu He , Jichang Yang , Yingjie Yu , Yi Li , Zhongrui Wang , Xiaojuan Qi , Han Wang

Compute-in-memory (CIM) is an efficient method for implementing deep neural networks (DNNs) but suffers from substantial overhead from analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), especially as ADC precision increases. Low-precision ADCs can reduce…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jiyoon Kim , Kang Eun Jeon , Yulhwa Kim , Jong Hwan Ko

In this paper, we propose FusionCIM, an operator-fusion-driven compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerator architecture for efficient and scalable LLM inference, with three key innovations: (1) a hybrid CIM pipeline architecture that maps QKT…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zihao Xuan , Jia Chen , Yewen Li , Wei Xuan , Hegan Chen , Xiao Huo , Fengbin Tu

In-memory computing (IMC) on a monolithic chip for deep learning faces dramatic challenges on area, yield, and on-chip interconnection cost due to the ever-increasing model sizes. 2.5D integration or chiplet-based architectures interconnect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Gokul Krishnan , Sumit K. Mandal , Manvitha Pannala , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Jae-sun Seo , Umit Y. Ogras , Yu Cao

The 3D point cloud perception has emerged as a fundamental role for a wide range of applications. In particular, with the rapid development of neural networks, the voxel-based networks attract great attention due to their excellent…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xipeng Lin , Shanshi Huang , Hongwu Jiang

The widespread adoption of data-centric algorithms, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), has exposed the limitations of centralized processing infrastructures, driving a shift towards edge computing. This…

Traditional machine learning depends on high-precision arithmetic and near-ideal hardware assumptions, which is increasingly challenged by variability in aggressively scaled semiconductor devices. Compute-in-memory (CIM) architectures…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-15 William Youngwoo Chung , Hamza Errahmouni Barkam , Tamoghno Das , Mohsen Imani

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

Processing-in-cache (PiC) and Processing-in-memory (PiM) architectures, especially those utilizing bit-line computing, offer promising solutions to mitigate data movement bottlenecks within the memory hierarchy. While previous studies have…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Dhruv Gajaria , Tosiron Adegbija , Kevin Gomez

Expanding Deep Learning applications toward edge computing demands architectures capable of delivering high computational performance and efficiency while adhering to tight power and memory constraints. Digital In-Memory Computing (DIMC)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Tommaso Spagnolo , Cristina Silvano , Riccardo Massa , Filippo Grillotti , Thomas Boesch , Giuseppe Desoli

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become essential in a variety of applications due to their advanced language understanding and generation capabilities. However, their computational and memory requirements pose significant challenges to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Cristobal Ortega , Yann Falevoz , Renaud Ayrignac

A mass of data transfer between the processing and storage units has been the leading bottleneck in modern Von-Neuman computing systems, especially when used for Artificial Intelligence (AI) tasks. Computing-in-Memory (CIM) has shown great…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Rui Xiao , Kejie Huang , Yewei Zhang , Haibin Shen

Stochastic computing (SC) offers hardware simplicity but suffers from low throughput, while high-throughput Digital Computing-in-Memory (DCIM) is bottlenecked by costly adder logic for matrix-vector multiplication (MVM). To address this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kunming Shao , Liang Zhao , Jiangnan Yu , Zhipeng Liao , Xiaomeng Wang , Yi Zou , Tim Kwang-Ting Cheng , Chi-Ying Tsui

Accommodating all the weights on-chip for large-scale NNs remains a great challenge for SRAM based computing-in-memory (SRAM-CIM) with limited on-chip capacity. Previous non-volatile SRAM-CIM (nvSRAM-CIM) addresses this issue by integrating…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Dengfeng Wang , Liukai Xu , Songyuan Liu , Zhi Li , Yiming Chen , Weifeng He , Xueqing Li , Yanan Sun

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