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The Von Neumann bottleneck, which relates to the energy cost of moving data from memory to on-chip core and vice versa, is a serious challenge in state-of-the-art AI architectures, like Convolutional Neural Networks' (CNNs) accelerators.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Cristian Sestito , Ahmed J. Abdelmaksoud , Shady Agwa , Themis Prodromakis

Processing-in-Memory (PIM) is a promising approach to overcoming the memory-wall bottleneck. However, the PIM community has largely treated its two fundamental data layouts, Bit-Parallel (BP) and Bit-Serial (BS), as if they were…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jingyao Zhang , Elaheh Sadredini

While general-purpose computing follows Von Neumann's architecture, the data movement between memory and processor elements dictates the processor's performance. The evolving compute-in-memory (CiM) paradigm tackles this issue by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Dhandeep Challagundla , Ignatius Bezzam , Riadul Islam

Since performance improvements of computers are stagnating, new technologies and computer paradigms are hot research topics. Memristor-based In-Memory Computing is one of the promising candidates for the post-CMOS era, which comes in many…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Fabian Seiler , Nima TaheriNejad

Inefficient data transfer between computation and memory inspired emerging processing-in-memory (PIM) technologies. Many PIM solutions enable storage and processing using memristors in a crossbar-array structure, with techniques such as…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Orian Leitersdorf , Ben Perach , Ronny Ronen , Shahar Kvatinsky

In this article, we introduce an instruction set architecture (ISA) for processing-in-memory (PIM) based deep neural network (DNN) accelerators. The proposed ISA is for DNN inference on PIM-based architectures. It is assumed that the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xiaoming Chen

We define new abstract machines for game semantics which correspond to networks of conventional computers, and can be used as an intermediate representation for compilation targeting distributed systems. This is achieved in two steps. First…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Olle Fredriksson , Dan R. Ghica

Recent dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs) are starting to support processing-in-memory (PIM) by associating their memory banks with processing elements (PEs), allowing applications to overcome the data movement bottleneck by offloading…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Si Ung Noh , Junguk Hong , Chaemin Lim , Seongyeon Park , Jeehyun Kim , Hanjun Kim , Youngsok Kim , Jinho Lee

A novel language system has given rise to promising alternatives to standard formal and processor network models of computation. An interstring linked with a abstract machine environment, shares sub-expressions, transfers data, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-07-30 Alexander Victor Berka

Sequence alignment is a memory bound computation whose performance in modern systems is limited by the memory bandwidth bottleneck. Processing-in-memory architectures alleviate this bottleneck by providing the memory with computing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Safaa Diab , Amir Nassereldine , Mohammed Alser , Juan Gómez-Luna , Onur Mutlu , Izzat El Hajj

This paper introduces the MIP Platform architecture model, a novel AI-based cognitive computing platform architecture. The goal of the proposed application of MIP is to reduce the implementation burden for the usage of AI algorithms applied…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Pasquale Giampa , Massimiliano Dibitonto

Training machine learning algorithms is a computationally intensive process, which is frequently memory-bound due to repeatedly accessing large training datasets. As a result, processor-centric systems (e.g., CPU, GPU) suffer from costly…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Juan Gómez-Luna , Yuxin Guo , Sylvan Brocard , Julien Legriel , Remy Cimadomo , Geraldo F. Oliveira , Gagandeep Singh , Onur Mutlu

We build on a fine-grained analysis of session-based interaction as provided by the linear logic typing disciplines to introduce the SAM, an abstract machine for mechanically executing session-typed processes. A remarkable feature of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Luís Caires , Bernardo Toninho

As CMOS scaling reaches its technological limits, a radical departure from traditional von Neumann systems, which involve separate processing and memory units, is needed in order to significantly extend the performance of today's computers.…

Spatial dataflow accelerators are a promising direction for next-generation computer systems because they can reduce the memory bottlenecks of traditional von Neumann machines such as CPUs and GPUs. They organize computation around…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wei Li , Zhenyu Bai , Heru Wang , Pranav Dangi , Zhiqiang Zhang , Cheng Tan , Huiying Lan , Weng-Fai Wong , Tulika Mitra

SRAM-based compute-in-memory (CIM) offers high computational density and energy efficiency for deep neural network (DNN) accelerators, but its limited capacity causes on/off-chip data movement overhead for large DNN models. Existing CIM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenhao Xue , Yukun Wang , An Guo , Yuhui Shi , Jinwei Zhou , Xiping Dong , Yihan Yin , Yuanpeng Zhang , Tianyu Jia , Wei Gao , Qiang Wu , Xin Si , Jun Yang , Guangyu Sun

Novel non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies offer high-speed and high-density data storage. In addition, they overcome the von Neumann bottleneck by enabling computing-in-memory (CIM). Various computer architectures have been proposed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Lennart M. Reimann , Felix Staudigl , Rainer Leupers

As neural computation is revolutionizing the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), rethinking the ideal neural hardware is becoming the next frontier. Fast and reliable von Neumann architecture has been the hosting platform for neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yigit Demirag

High Bandwidth Memory with Processing-in-Memory (HBM-PIM) offers an opportunity to reduce data movement by executing computation directly inside memory, but current commercial platforms expose limited instruction sets and require…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Emanuele Venieri , Simone Manoni , Alberto Florian , Jaehyun Park , Kyomin Sohn , Andrea Bartolini

The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has exponentially increased the demand for efficient serving systems. With growing requests and context lengths, key-value (KV)-related operations, including attention computation and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Lian Liu , Shixin Zhao , Yutian Zhou , Yintao He , Mengdi Wang , Yinhe Han , Ying Wang