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Analog In-Memory Computing (AIMC) is a promising approach to reduce the latency and energy consumption of Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference and training. However, the noisy and non-linear device characteristics, and the non-ideal…

Network-on-Chip (NoC) is currently the paradigm of choice to interconnect the different components of System-on-Chips (SoCs) or Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs). As the levels of integration continue to grow, however, current NoCs face…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Sergi Abadal , Eduard Alarcón

The multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) receiver processing is a key technology for current and next-generation wireless communications. However, it faces significant challenges related to complexity and scalability as the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Xingyu Zhou , Le Liang , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

In-memory computing (IMC) is an effectual solution for energy-efficient artificial intelligence applications. Analog IMC amortizes the power consumption of multiple sensing amplifiers with analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Hao Cai , Yanan Guo , Bo Liu , Mingyang Zhou , Juntong Chen , Xinning Liu , Jun Yang

The quest for energy-efficient, scalable neuromorphic computing has elevated compute-in-memory (CIM) architectures to the forefront of hardware innovation. While memristive memories have been extensively explored for synaptic implementation…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-20 Kapil Bhardwaj , Ella Paasio , Sayani Majumdar

Wireless Network-on-Chip (WNoC) appears as a promising alternative to conventional interconnect fabrics for chip-scale communications. WNoC takes advantage of an overlaid network composed by a set of millimeter-wave antennas to reduce…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Xavier Timoneda , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Dionysios Manessis , Eduard Alarcón , Sergi Abadal

Kernel functions are vital ingredients of several machine learning algorithms, but often incur significant memory and computational costs. We introduce an approach to kernel approximation in machine learning algorithms suitable for…

In memory computing (IMC) architectures for deep learning (DL) accelerators leverage energy-efficient and highly parallel matrix vector multiplication (MVM) operations, implemented directly in memory arrays. Such IMC designs have been…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Arkapravo Ghosh , Hemkar Reddy Sadana , Mukut Debnath , Panthadip Maji , Shubham Negi , Sumeet Gupta , Mrigank Sharad , Kaushik Roy

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an emerging computing paradigm that represents, manipulates, and communicates data using long random vectors known as hypervectors. Among different hardware platforms capable of executing HDC algorithms,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Robert Guirado , Abbas Rahimi , Geethan Karunaratne , Eduard Alarcón , Abu Sebastian , Sergi Abadal

Analog In-Memory Compute (AIMC) can improve the energy efficiency of Deep Learning by orders of magnitude. Yet analog-domain device and circuit non-idealities -- within the analog ``Tiles'' performing Matrix-Vector Multiply (MVM) operations…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 J. Luquin , C. Mackin , S. Ambrogio , A. Chen , F. Baldi , G. Miralles , M. J. Rasch , J. Büchel , M. Lalwani , W. Ponghiran , P. Solomon , H. Tsai , G. W. Burr , P. Narayanan

Wireless communications at the chip scale emerge as a interesting complement to traditional wire-based approaches thanks to their low latency, inherent broadcast nature, and capacity to bypass pin constraints. However, as current trends…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Bernat Ollé , Pau Talarn , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Filip Lemic , Eduard Alarcón , Sergi Abadal

Emergent nanoscale non-volatile memory technologies with high integration density offer a promising solution to overcome the scalability limitations of CMOS-based neural networks architectures, by efficiently exhibiting the key principle of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Saber Moradi , Rajit Manohar

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are bio-plausible models that hold great potential for realizing energy-efficient implementations of sequential tasks on resource-constrained edge devices. However, commercial edge platforms based on standard…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Marco Paul E. Apolinario , Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Utkarsh Saxena , Kaushik Roy

The increasing density of transistors in Integrated Circuits (ICs) has enabled the development of highly integrated Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) and, more recently, Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs). To address scalability challenges in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Rodrigo Cataldo , Cesar Marcon , Debora Matos

Aiming to accelerate the training of large deep neural networks (DNN) in an energy-efficient way, analog in-memory computing (AIMC) emerges as a solution with immense potential. AIMC accelerator keeps model weights in memory without moving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhaoxian Wu , Quan Xiao , Tayfun Gokmen , Hsinyu Tsai , Kaoutar El Maghraoui , Tianyi Chen

As the size of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models and datasets grows, the memory bandwidth becomes a critical bottleneck. The paper presents a novel extended memory hierarchy that addresses some major memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jordi Altayo , Paul Delestrac , David Novo , Simey Yang , Debjyoti Bhattacharjee , Francky Catthoor

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

The main design principles in computer architecture have recently shifted from a monolithic scaling-driven approach to the development of heterogeneous architectures that tightly co-integrate multiple specialized processor and memory…

Wireless on-chip communication is a promising candidate to address the performance and efficiency issues that arise when scaling current Network-on-Chip (NoC) techniques to manycore processors. A Wireless Network-on-Chip (WNoC) can serve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Sergi Abadal , Albert Mestres , Josep Torrellas , Eduard Alarcón , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

Ubiquitous multicore processors nowadays rely on an integrated packet-switched network for cores to exchange and share data. The performance of these intra-chip networks is a key determinant of the processor speed and, at high core counts,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Xavier Timoneda , Sergi Abadal , Antonio Franques , Dionysios Manessis , Jin Zhou , Josep Torrellas , Eduard Alarcón , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio