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In-memory computing (IMC) architecture emerges as a promising paradigm, improving the energy efficiency of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations within DNNs by integrating the parallel computations within the memory arrays. Various…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zeyu Yang , Qingrong Huang , Yu Qian , Kai Ni , Thomas Kämpfe , Xunzhao Yin

Compute-in-memory (CiM) is a promising approach to alleviating the memory wall problem for domain-specific applications. Compared to current-domain CiM solutions, charge-domain CiM shows the opportunity for higher energy efficiency and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Guodong Yin , Yi Cai , Juejian Wu , Zhengyang Duan , Zhenhua Zhu , Yongpan Liu , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang , Xueqing Li

We propose 2D Piezoelectric FET (PeFET) based compute-enabled non-volatile memory for ternary deep neural networks (DNNs). PeFETs consist of a material with ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties coupled with Transition Metal…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Niharika Thakuria , Reena Elangovan , Sandeep K Thirumala , Anand Raghunathan , Sumeet K. Gupta

Analog Content Addressable Memories (aCAMs) have proven useful for associative in-memory computing applications like Decision Trees, Finite State Machines, and Hyper-dimensional Computing. While non-volatile implementations using FeFETs and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Paul-Philipp Manea , Nathan Leroux , Emre Neftci , John Paul Strachan

Edge computing is a promising solution for handling high-dimensional, multispectral analog data from sensors and IoT devices for applications such as autonomous drones. However, edge devices' limited storage and computing resources make it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Nastaran Darabi , Amit R. Trivedi

Ternary content addressable memories (TCAMs) are useful for certain computing tasks since they allow us to compare a search query with a whole dataset stored in the memory array. They can also unlock unique advantages for cryogenic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shamiul Alam , Simon Thomann , Shivendra Singh Parihar , Yogesh Singh Chauhan , Kai Ni , Hussam Amrouch , Ahmedullah Aziz

Decision trees are considered one of the most powerful tools for data classification. Accelerating the decision tree search is crucial for on-the-edge applications that have limited power and latency budget. In this paper, we propose a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Mariam Rakka , Mohammed E. Fouda , Rouwaida Kanj , Fadi Kurdahi

This work presents a novel approach to configure 2T-nC ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) for performing single cell logic-in-memory operations, highlighting its advantages in energy-efficient computation over conventional DRAM-based approaches.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Rudra Biswas , Jiahui Duan , Shan Deng , Xuezhong Niu , Yixin Qin , Prapti Panigrahi , Varun Parekh , Rajiv Joshi , Kai Ni , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Self-attention in Transformers generates dynamic operands that force conventional Compute-in-Memory (CIM) accelerators into costly non-volatile memory (NVM) reprogramming cycles, degrading throughput and stressing device endurance. Existing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Md Zesun Ahmed Mia , Jiahui Duan , Kai Ni , Abhronil Sengupta

A multi-bit digital weight cell for high-performance, inference-only non-GPU-like neuromorphic accelerators is presented. The cell is designed with simplicity of peripheral circuitry in mind. Non-volatile storage of weights which eliminates…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Borna Obradovic , Titash Rakshit , Ryan Hatcher , Jorge Kittl , Rwik Sengupta , Joon Goo Hong , Mark S. Rodder

The deluge of sensors and data generating devices has driven a paradigm shift in modern computing from arithmetic-logic centric to data-centric processing. Data-centric processing require innovations at device level to enable novel…

Non-volatile memories (NVMs) offer negligible leakage power consumption, high integration density, and data retention, but their non-volatility also raises the risk of data exposure. Conventional encryption techniques such as the Advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Sanwar Ahmed Ovy , Jiahui Duan , Md Ashraful Islam Romel , Franz Muller , Thomas Kampfe , Kai Ni , Sumitha George

Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance in various natural language processing (NLP) applications. However, the high memory and computation cost induced by the KV cache limits the inference…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Weikai Xu , Wenxuan Zeng , Qianqian Huang , Meng Li , Ru Huang

The rapid adoption of low-precision arithmetic in artificial intelligence and edge computing has created a strong demand for energy-efficient and flexible floating-point multiply-accumulate (MAC) units. This paper presents a dual-precision…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Shubham Kumar , Vijay Pratap Sharma , Vaibhav Neema , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

In this work, we propose a fully-binarized XOR-based IMSS (In-Memory Similarity Search) using RRAM (Resistive Random Access Memory) arrays. XOR (Exclusive OR) operation is realized using 2T-2R bitcells arranged along the column in an array.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Sandeep Kaur Kingra , Vivek Parmar , Deepak Verma , Alessandro Bricalli , Giuseppe Piccolboni , Gabriel Molas , Amir Regev , Manan Suri

Compute-in-memory (CIM) has shown significant potential in efficiently accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs) at the edge, particularly in speeding up quantized models for inference applications. Recently, there has been growing interest…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Zhiqiang Yi , Yiwen Liang , Weidong Cao

Today's computing systems require moving data back-and-forth between computing resources (e.g., CPUs, GPUs, accelerators) and off-chip main memory so that computation can take place on the data. Unfortunately, this data movement is a major…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Geraldo F. Oliveira , Amirali Boroumand , Saugata Ghose , Juan Gómez-Luna , Onur Mutlu

Homomorphic encryption (HE) allows direct computations on encrypted data. Despite numerous research efforts, the practicality of HE schemes remains to be demonstrated. In this regard, the enormous size of ciphertexts involved in HE…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Dayane Reis , Jonathan Takeshita , Taeho Jung , Michael Niemier , Xiaobo Sharon Hu

In a number of machine learning models, an input query is searched across the trained class vectors to find the closest feature class vector in cosine similarity metric. However, performing the cosine similarities between the vectors in…

The exponential growth of data has driven technology providers to develop new protocols, such as cache coherent interconnects and memory semantic fabrics, to help users and facilities leverage advances in memory technologies to satisfy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Vamsee Reddy Kommareddy , Clayton Hughes , Simon David Hammond , Amro Awad