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Non-volatile memory (NVM) has the potential to disrupt the boundary between memory and storage, including the abstractions that manage this boundary. Researchers comparing the speed, durability, and abstractions of hybrid systems with DRAM,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Shoaib Akram , Jennifer B. Sartor , Kathryn S. McKinley , Lieven Eeckhout

Magnetic Random-Access Memory (MRAM) based p-bit neuromorphic computing devices are garnering increasing interest as a means to compactly and efficiently realize machine learning operations in Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs). When…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Paul Wood , Hossein Pourmeidani , Ronald F. DeMara

Applications of Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are promising for embedded systems with hard constraints on computing power. Contrary to conventional neural networks with the floating-point datatype, BNNs use binarized weights and activations…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Mahdi Zahedi , Taha Shahroodi , Stephan Wong , Said Hamdioui

Microcontroller units (MCU), which have an order of magnitude lower Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) than standard computers, makes them suitable for applications at the edge. Neuromorphic computing, which can realize low SWaP, relies on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 L. Niedermeier , J. L. Krichmar

Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM), or memristive, devices promise energy-efficient realization of deep learning, when efficiently integrated with mixed-signal integrated circuits on a CMOS substrate. Even though several algorithmic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Vishal Saxena , Xinyu Wu , Kehan Zhu

Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM)-based Computing-in-Memory (CiM) architectures show substantial promise in accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs) due to their exceptional energy efficiency. However, NVM devices are prone to device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Zheyu Yan , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

Neuromorphic circuits mimic partial functionalities of brain in a bio-inspired information processing sense in order to achieve similar efficiencies as biological systems. While there are common mathematical models for neurons, which can be…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Enver Solan , Karlheinz Ochs

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer an event-driven and more biologically realistic alternative to standard Artificial Neural Networks based on analog information processing. This can potentially enable energy-efficient hardware…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Indranil Chakraborty , Gobinda Saha , Kaushik Roy

Neuromorphic architectures, which incorporate parallel and in-memory processing, are crucial for accelerating artificial neural network (ANN) computations. This work presents a novel memristor-based multi-layer neural network (memristive…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Santlal Prajapat , Manobendra Nath Mondal , Susmita Sur-Kolay

Recently, analog compute-in-memory (CIM) architectures based on emerging analog non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies have been explored for deep neural networks (DNN) to improve energy efficiency. Such architectures, however, leverage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Zhe Wan , Tianyi Wang , Yiming Zhou , Subramanian S. Iyer , Vwani P. Roychowdhury

Compute in-memory (CIM) is a promising technique that minimizes data transport, the primary performance bottleneck and energy cost of most data intensive applications. This has found wide-spread adoption in accelerating neural networks for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Brian Crafton , Samuel Spetalnick , Arijit Raychowdhury

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) increases the requirement for edge computing with low power and relatively high processing speed devices. The Computing-In-Memory(CIM) schemes based on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Yewei Zhang , Kejie Huang , Rui Xiao , Haibin Shen

Designing lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) models is an active research area in edge AI. Compute-in-memory (CIM) provides a new computing paradigm to alleviate time and energy consumption caused by data transfer in von Neumann…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Wenyong Zhou , Yuan Ren , Jiajun Zhou , Tianshu Hou , Ngai Wong

Computation on a large volume of data at high speed and low power requires energy-efficient computing architectures. Spiking neural network (SNN) with bio-inspired spike-timing-dependent plasticity learning (STDP) is a promising solution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Sahibia Kaur Vohra , Sherin A Thomas , Mahendra Sakare , Devarshi Mrinal Das

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising paradigm, offering event-driven and energy-efficient computation. In recent studies, various devices tailored for SNN synapses and neurons have been proposed, leveraging the unique…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-01 Debasis Das , Xuanyao Fong

This paper presents a memristor-based compute-in-memory hardware accelerator for on-chip training and inference, focusing on its accuracy and efficiency against device variations, conductance errors, and input noise. Utilizing realistic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-28 M. Reza Eslami , Dhiman Biswas , Soheib Takhtardeshir , Sarah S. Sharif , Yaser M. Banad

This paper presents, NeuroTrainer, an intelligent memory module with in-memory accelerators that forms the building block of a scalable architecture for energy efficient training for deep neural networks. The proposed architecture is based…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Duckhwan Kim , Taesik Na , Sudhakar Yalamanchili , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

In this study, we present a highly configurable neuromorphic computing substrate and use it for emulating several types of neural networks. At the heart of this system lies a mixed-signal chip, with analog implementations of neurons and…

Non-volatile memory (NVM) is a promising technology for low-energy and high-capacity main memory of computers. The characteristics of NVM devices, however, tend to be fundamentally different from those of DRAM (i.e., the memory device…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Atsushi Koshiba , Takahiro Hirofuchi , Ryousei Takano , Mitaro Namiki

Memristor-based neuromorphic computing could overcome the limitations of traditional von Neumann computing architectures -- in which data are shuffled between separate memory and processing units -- and improve the performance of deep…