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The precise programming of crossbar arrays of unit-cells is crucial for obtaining high matrix-vector-multiplication (MVM) accuracy in analog in-memory computing (AIMC) cores. We propose a radically different approach based on directly…

Content Addressable Memories (CAMs) are considered a key-enabler for in-memory computing (IMC). IMC shows order of magnitude improvement in energy efficiency and throughput compared to traditional computing techniques. Recently, analog CAMs…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Jinane Bazzi , Jana Sweidan , Mohammed E. Fouda , Rouwaida Kanj , Ahmed M. Eltawil

Developing accurate and reliable Compute-In-Memory (CIM) architectures is becoming a key research focus to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) tasks on hardware, particularly Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). In that regard, there has been…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Omar Numan , Gaurav Singh , Kazybek Adam , Jelin Leslin , Aleksi Korsman , Otto Simola , Marko Kosunen , Jussi Ryynänen , Martin Andraud

The design and implementation of Deep Learning (DL) models is currently receiving a lot of attention from both industrials and academics. However, the computational workload associated with DL is often out of reach for low-power embedded…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Etienne Dupuis , Silviu-Ioan Filip , Olivier Sentieys , David Novo , Ian O'Connor , Alberto Bosio

The Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard significantly improves compression efficiency over its predecessor, HEVC, but at the cost of substantially higher computational complexity, particularly in intra-frame prediction. This stage employs…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Lucas M. Leipnitz de Fraga , Cláudio Machado Diniz

Sorting is a fundamental operation across numerous computational domains. Traditionally, this process involves transferring data from main memory to a processing unit for sorting, followed by writing the sorted data back to memory. This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Narendra Singh Dhakad , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

This paper presents a programmable in-memory-computing processor, demonstrated in a 65nm CMOS technology. For data-centric workloads, such as deep neural networks, data movement often dominates when implemented with today's computing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Hongyang Jia , Yinqi Tang , Hossein Valavi , Jintao Zhang , Naveen Verma

Resistive crossbars enabling analog In-Memory Computing (IMC) have emerged as a promising architecture for Deep Neural Network (DNN) acceleration, offering high memory bandwidth and in-situ computation. However, the manual,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Deepak Vungarala , Md Hasibul Amin , Pietro Mercati , Arnob Ghosh , Arman Roohi , Ramtin Zand , Shaahin Angizi

Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) based in-memory computing (IMC) accelerators offer significant performance and energy advantages for deep neural networks (DNNs), but face three major limitations: (1) they support only \textit{static}…

Software-hardware co-design is essential for optimizing in-memory computing (IMC) hardware accelerators for neural networks. However, most existing optimization frameworks target a single workload, leading to highly specialized hardware…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Olga Krestinskaya , Mohammed E. Fouda , Ahmed Eltawil , Khaled N. Salama

Memory load/store instructions consume an important part in execution time and energy consumption in domain-specific accelerators. For designing highly parallel systems, available parallelism at each granularity is extracted from the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Khushal Sethi

Large-scale deep learning models are increasingly constrained by their immense energy consumption, limiting their scalability and applicability for edge intelligence. In-memory computing (IMC) offers a promising solution by addressing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yusuke Sakemi , Yuji Okamoto , Takashi Morie , Sou Nobukawa , Takeo Hosomi , Kazuyuki Aihara

Computing-in-memory (CIM) is renowned in deep learning due to its high energy efficiency resulting from highly parallel computing with minimal data movement. However, current SRAM-based CIM designs suffer from long latency for loading…

This paper presents an innovative approach utilizing in-memory computing (IMC) for the development and integration of AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) cipher technique. Our research aims to enhance cybersecurity measures for a wide range…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Hala Ajmi , Fakhreddine Zayer , Hamdi Belgacem

Specialized computational units that perform small matrix multiplications as primitive operations are typically present in modern AI accelerators. However, these Matrix Multiplication Units (MMUs) are often underutilized for many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Aleksandros Sobczyk , Giuseppe Sorrentino , Anastasios Zouzias

Analog in-memory computing (AIMC) is a promising compute paradigm to improve speed and power efficiency of neural network inference beyond the limits of conventional von Neumann-based architectures. However, AIMC introduces fundamental…

Matrix computation is ubiquitous in modern scientific and engineering fields. Due to the high computational complexity in conventional digital computers, matrix computation represents a heavy workload in many data-intensive applications,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Zhong Sun , Daniele Ielmini

`In-memory computing' is being widely explored as a novel computing paradigm to mitigate the well known memory bottleneck. This emerging paradigm aims at embedding some aspects of computations inside the memory array, thereby avoiding…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Mustafa Ali , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Sangamesh Kodge , Amogh Agrawal , Indranil Chakraborty , Kaushik Roy

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) is an emerging computational framework that mimics important brain functions by operating over high-dimensional vectors, called hypervectors (HVs). In-memory computing implementations of HDC are desirable…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Arman Kazemi , Mohammad Mehdi Sharifi , Zhuowen Zou , Michael Niemier , X. Sharon Hu , Mohsen Imani

Recent studies from several hyperscalars pinpoint to embedding layers as the most memory-intensive deep learning (DL) algorithm being deployed in today's datacenters. This paper addresses the memory capacity and bandwidth challenges of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Youngeun Kwon , Yunjae Lee , Minsoo Rhu