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Processing-in-memory (PIM) has shown extraordinary potential in accelerating neural networks. To evaluate the performance of PIM accelerators, we present an ISA-based simulation framework including a dedicated ISA targeting neural networks…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Xinyu Wang , Xiaotian Sun , Yinhe Han , Xiaoming Chen

Compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerators for spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising solutions to enable $\mu$s-level inference latency and ultra-low energy in edge vision applications. Yet, their current lack of flexibility at both the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Nicolas Chauvaux , Adrian Kneip , Christoph Posch , Kofi Makinwa , Charlotte Frenkel

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

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

DNA sequence classification is a fundamental task in computational biology with vast implications for applications such as disease prevention and drug design. Therefore, fast high-quality sequence classifiers are significantly important.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Marcel Khalifa , Barak Hoffer , Orian Leitersdorf , Robert Hanhan , Ben Perach , Leonid Yavits , Shahar Kvatinsky

Data-intensive computing tasks, such as training neural networks, are crucial for artificial intelligence applications but often come with high energy demands. One promising solution is to develop specialized hardware that directly maps…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ankur Singh , Dowon Kim , Byung-Geun Lee

To maximize hardware efficiency and performance accuracy in Compute-In-Memory (CIM)-based neural network accelerators for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, co-optimizing both software and hardware design parameters is essential.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Olga Krestinskaya , Mohammed E. Fouda , Ahmed Eltawil , Khaled N. Salama

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have gained immense success in cognitive applications and greatly pushed today's artificial intelligence forward. The biggest challenge in executing DNNs is their extremely data-extensive computations. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Fuqiang Liu , C. Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made breakthroughs in various fields including image recognition and language processing. DNNs execute hundreds of millions of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations. To efficiently accelerate such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Amro Eldebiky , Grace Li Zhang , Xunzhao Yin , Cheng Zhuo , Ing-Chao Lin , Ulf Schlichtmann , Bing Li

Uncertainty estimation in Neural Networks (NNs) is vital in improving reliability and confidence in predictions, particularly in safety-critical applications. Bayesian Neural Networks (BayNNs) with Dropout as an approximation offer a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Soyed Tuhin Ahmed , Kamal Danouchi , Michael Hefenbrock , Guillaume Prenat , Lorena Anghel , Mehdi B. Tahoori

Conventional neuro-computing architectures and artificial neural networks have often been developed with no or loose connections to neuroscience. As a consequence, they have largely ignored key features of biological neural processing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Giacomo Indiveri , Bernabe Linares-Barranco , Robert Legenstein , George Deligeorgis , Themistoklis Prodromakis

Emerging device-based Computing-in-memory (CiM) has been proved to be a promising candidate for high-energy efficiency deep neural network (DNN) computations. However, most emerging devices suffer uncertainty issues, resulting in a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Zheyu Yan , Da-Cheng Juan , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

With the recent growth in demand for large-scale deep neural networks, compute in-memory (CiM) has come up as a prominent solution to alleviate bandwidth and on-chip interconnect bottlenecks that constrain Von-Neuman architectures. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Souvik Kundu , Anthony Sarah , Vinay Joshi , Om J Omer , Sreenivas Subramoney

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are increasingly favored for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices due to their energy-efficient and event-driven processing capabilities. However, training SNNs remains challenging because of the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Haoxiong Ren , Yangu He , Kwunhang Wong , Rui Bao , Ning Lin , Zhongrui Wang , Dashan Shang

Due to reduced manufacturing yields, traditional monolithic chips cannot keep up with the compute, memory, and communication demands of data-intensive applications, such as rapidly growing deep neural network (DNN) models. Chiplet-based…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Lukas Pfromm , Alish Kanani , Harsh Sharma , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Partha Pratim Pande , Umit Y. Ogras

Compute-in-memory (CIM) architecture has been widely explored to address the von Neumann bottleneck in accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs). However, its reliability remains largely understudied, particularly in the emerging domain of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Qiufeng Li , Yiwen Liang , Weidong Cao

Non-volatile memory (NVM) crossbars have been identified as a promising technology, for accelerating important machine learning operations, with matrix-vector multiplication being a key example. Binary neural networks (BNNs) are especially…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ruirong Huang , Zichao Yue , Caroline Huang , Janarbek Matai , Zhiru Zhang

Deep learning has made remarkable progress in various tasks, surpassing human performance in some cases. However, one drawback of neural networks is catastrophic forgetting, where a network trained on one task forgets the solution when…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Simone D'Agostino , Filippo Moro , Tifenn Hirtzlin , Julien Arcamone , Niccolò Castellani , Damien Querlioz , Melika Payvand , Elisa Vianello

Computing-in-Memory (CIM) architectures have emerged as a promising solution for accelerating Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) by mitigating data movement bottlenecks. However, realizing the potential of CIM requires specialized dataflow…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Xiaolin He , Cenlin Duan , Yingjie Qi , Xiao Ma , Jianlei Yang

Enabling efficient and accurate deep neural network (DNN) inference on microcontrollers is non-trivial due to the constrained on-chip resources. Current methodologies primarily focus on compressing larger models yet at the expense of model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Xiao Ma , Shengfeng He , Hezhe Qiao , Dong Ma