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Neuromorphic-style inference only works well if limited hardware resources are maximized properly, e.g. accuracy continues to scale with parameters and complexity in the face of potential disturbance. In this work, we use realistic crossbar…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Christopher H. Bennett , Ryan Dellana , T. Patrick Xiao , Ben Feinberg , Sapan Agarwal , Suma Cardwell , Matthew J. Marinella , William Severa , Brad Aimone

We propose a technology-independent method, referred to as adjacent connection matrix (ACM), to efficiently map signed weight matrices to non-negative crossbar arrays. When compared to same-hardware-overhead mapping methods, using ACM leads…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Arman Kazemi , Cristobal Alessandri , Alan C. Seabaugh , X. Sharon Hu , Michael Niemier , Siddharth Joshi

We have calculated the key characteristics of associative (content-addressable) spatial-temporal memories based on neuromorphic networks with restricted connectivity - "CrossNets". Such networks may be naturally implemented in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Dmitri Gavrilov , Dmitri Strukov , Konstantin K. Likharev

The objective of this study is to illustrate the process of training a Deep Neural Network (DNN) within a Resistive RAM (ReRAM) Crossbar-based simulation environment using CrossSim, an Application Programming Interface (API) developed for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Tejaswanth Reddy Maram , Ria Barnwal , Bindu B

Deep learning is one of the most advancing technologies in various fields. Facing the limits of the current electronics platform, optical neural networks (ONNs) based on Si programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have attracted…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Shuhei Ohno , Kasidit Toprasertpong , Shinichi Takagi , Mitsuru Takenaka

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are computationally intensive and often accelerated using crossbar-based in-memory computing (IMC) architectures. However, large convolutional layers must be partitioned across multiple crossbars,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shuai Dong , Junyi Yang , Ye Ke , Hongyang Shang , Arindam Basu

In-memory computing (IMC) can eliminate the data movement between processor and memory which is a barrier to the energy-efficiency and performance in Von-Neumann computing. Resistive RAM (RRAM) is one of the promising devices for IMC…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Sina Sayyah Ensan , Swaroop Ghosh , Seyedhamidreza Motaman , Derek Weast

Passive crossbar arrays based upon memristive devices, at crosspoints, hold great promise for the future high-density and non-volatile memories. The most significant challenge facing memristive device based crossbars today is the problem of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Yansong Gao , Omid Kavehei , Damith C. Ranasinghe , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Derek Abbott

Brain-inspired computing proposes a set of algorithmic principles that hold promise for advancing artificial intelligence. They endow systems with self learning capabilities, efficient energy usage, and high storage capacity. A core concept…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Younes Bouhadjar , Sebastian Siegel , Tom Tetzlaff , Markus Diesmann , Rainer Waser , Dirk J. Wouters

This research work proposes a design of an analog ReRAM-based PIM (processing-in-memory) architecture for fast and efficient CNN (convolutional neural network) inference. For the overall architecture, we use the basic hardware hierarchy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Sho Ko , Shimeng Yu

Conventional in-memory computing (IMC) architectures consist of analog memristive crossbars to accelerate matrix-vector multiplication (MVM), and digital functional units to realize nonlinear vector (NLV) operations in deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Md Hasibul Amin , Mohammed Elbtity , Ramtin Zand

Deployment of modern TinyML tasks on small battery-constrained IoT devices requires high computational energy efficiency. Analog In-Memory Computing (IMC) using non-volatile memory (NVM) promises major efficiency improvements in deep neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Angelo Garofalo , Gianmarco Ottavi , Francesco Conti , Geethan Karunaratne , Irem Boybat , Luca Benini , Davide Rossi

With the rapid growth of deep neural networks (DNNs), compute-in-memory (CIM) has emerged as a promising energy-efficient paradigm for accelerating multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations. Yet, current CIM architectures are largely limited…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Subhradip Chakraborty , Ankur Singh , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal

Charge-domain compute-in-memory (CIM) SRAMs have recently become an enticing compromise between computing efficiency and accuracy to process sub-8b convolutional neural networks (CNNs) at the edge. Yet, they commonly make use of a fixed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Adrian Kneip , Martin Lefebvre , Pol Maistriaux , David Bol

The ever-increasing demand to extract temporal correlations across sequential data and perform context-based learning in this era of big data has led to the development of long short-term memory (LSTM) networks. Furthermore, there is an…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Honey Nikam , Siddharth Satyam , Shubham Sahay

Time-domain nonvolatile in-memory computing (TD-nvIMC) offers a promising pathway to reduce data movement and improve energy efficiency by encoding computation in delay rather than voltage or current. This work presents a fully integrated…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jeries Mattar , Mor M. Dahan , Stefan Dunkel , Halid Mulaosmanovic , Gunda Beernink , Sven Beyer , Eilam Yalon , Nicolás Wainstein

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

Resistive random access memory (ReRAM)-based processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures have demonstrated great potential to accelerate Deep Neural Network (DNN) training/inference. However, the computational accuracy of analog PIM is…

Resistive random-access memory (RRAM) is gaining popularity due to its ability to offer computing within the memory and its non-volatile nature. The unique properties of RRAM, such as binary switching, multi-state switching, and device…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Simranjeet Singh , Farhad Merchant , Sachin Patkar

Compute-in-memory (CiM) is a promising approach to improving the computing speed and energy efficiency in dataintensive applications. Beyond existing CiM techniques of bitwise logic-in-memory operations and dot product operations, this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yiming Chen , Yushen Fu , Mingyen Lee , Sumitha George , Yongpan Liu , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan , Huazhong Yang , Xueqing Li