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Processing in memory (PiM) represents a promising computing paradigm to enhance performance of numerous data-intensive applications. Variants performing computing directly in emerging nonvolatile memories can deliver very high energy…

With the widespread use of deep neural networks(DNNs) in intelligent systems, DNN accelerators with high performance and energy efficiency are greatly demanded. As one of the feasible processing-in-memory(PIM) architectures,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Junpeng Wang , Mengke Ge , Bo Ding , Qi Xu , Song Chen , Yi Kang

The performance of today's in-memory indexes is bottlenecked by the memory latency/bandwidth wall. Processing-in-memory (PIM) is an emerging approach that potentially mitigates this bottleneck, by enabling low-latency memory access whose…

SRAM Processing-in-Memory (PIM) has emerged as the most promising implementation for high-performance PIM, delivering superior computing density, energy efficiency, and computational precision. However, the pursuit of higher performance…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yuanpeng Zhang , Xing Hu , Xi Chen , Zhihang Yuan , Cong Li , Jingchen Zhu , Zhao Wang , Chenguang Zhang , Xin Si , Wei Gao , Qiang Wu , Runsheng Wang , Guangyu Sun

Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures allow software to explicitly initiate computation in the memory. This effectively makes PIM operations a new class of memory operations, alongside standard memory operations (e.g., load, store). For…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Ben Perach , Ronny Ronnen , Shahar Kvatinsky

In modern computer architectures, the performance of many memory-bound workloads (e.g., machine learning, graph processing, databases) is limited by the data movement bottleneck that emerges when transferring large amounts of data between…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Pedro Carrinho , Hamid Moghadaspour , Oscar Ferraz , João Dinis Ferreira , Yann Falevoz , Vitor Silva , Gabriel Falcao

Processing-in-DRAM (DRAM-PIM) has emerged as a promising technology for accelerating memory-intensive operations in modern applications, such as Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite its potential, current software stacks for DRAM-PIM face…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yongwon Shin , Dookyung Kang , Hyojin Sung

Many modern workloads, such as neural networks, databases, and graph processing, are fundamentally memory-bound. For such workloads, the data movement between main memory and CPU cores imposes a significant overhead in terms of both latency…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Juan Gómez-Luna , Izzat El Hajj , Ivan Fernandez , Christina Giannoula , Geraldo F. Oliveira , Onur Mutlu

High performance large scale graph analytics are essential to timely analyze relationships in big data sets. Conventional processor architectures suffer from inefficient resource usage and bad scaling on those workloads. To enable efficient…

Processing-in-memory (PIM), as a novel computing paradigm, provides significant performance benefits from the aspect of effective data movement reduction. SRAM-based PIM has been demonstrated as one of the most promising candidates due to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Cenlin Duan , Jianlei Yang , Xiaolin He , Yingjie Qi , Yikun Wang , Yiou Wang , Ziyan He , Bonan Yan , Xueyan Wang , Xiaotao Jia , Weitao Pan , Weisheng Zhao

The performance bottleneck of deep-learning-based recommender systems resides in their backbone Deep Neural Networks. By integrating Processing-In-Memory~(PIM) architectures, researchers can reduce data movement and enhance energy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Feng Cheng , Tunhou Zhang , Junyao Zhang , Jonathan Hao-Cheng Ku , Yitu Wang , Xiaoxuan Yang , Hai , Li , Yiran Chen

Processing-in-cache (PiC) and Processing-in-memory (PiM) architectures, especially those utilizing bit-line computing, offer promising solutions to mitigate data movement bottlenecks within the memory hierarchy. While previous studies have…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Dhruv Gajaria , Tosiron Adegbija , Kevin Gomez

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

Although deep learning-based personalized recommendation systems provide qualified recommendations, they strain data center resources. The main bottleneck is the embedding layer, which is highly memory-intensive due to its sparse, irregular…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Youngsuk Kim , Junghwan Lim , Hyuk-Jae Lee , Chae Eun Rhee

Processing In Memory (PIM) accelerators are promising architecture that can provide massive parallelization and high efficiency in various applications. Such architectures can instantaneously provide ultra-fast operation over extensive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Kazi Abu Zubair , Sumit Kumar Jha , David Mohaisen , Clayton Hughes , Amro Awad

Homomorphic encryption (HE) enables computation over encrypted data, offering strong privacy guarantees for untrusted computing environments. Practical adoption remains limited by high computational complexity, large ciphertext sizes, and…

Our ISCA 2015 paper provides a new programmable processing-in-memory (PIM) architecture and system design that can accelerate key data-intensive applications, with a focus on graph processing workloads. Our major idea was to completely…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Junwhan Ahn , Sungpack Hong , Sungjoo Yoo , Onur Mutlu , Kiyoung Choi

Processing-in-Memory (PIM) architectures offer a promising solution to the memory bottlenecks in data-intensive machine learning, yet often overlook the growing challenge of activation memory footprint. Conventional PIM approaches struggle…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kosuke Matsushima , Yasuyuki Okoshi , Masato Motomura , Daichi Fujiki

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

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