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A low-power precision-scalable processor for ConvNets or convolutional neural networks (CNN) is implemented in a 40nm technology. Its 256 parallel processing units achieve a peak 102GOPS running at 204MHz. To minimize energy consumption…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Bert Moons , Marian Verhelst

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding accuracy for many vision tasks during recent years. When deploying CNNs on portable devices and embedded systems, however, the large number of parameters and computations result in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Mehdi Ahmadi , Shervin Vakili , J. M. Pierre Langlois

In this paper, we present a new 9T SRAM cell that has good write-ability and improves read stability at the same time. Simulation results show that the proposed design increases Read SNM (RSNM) and Ion/Ioff of read path by 219% and 113%,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Ghasem Pasandi , Sied Mehdi Fakhraei

This work presents E-ReCON, a 16 Kb energy and resource-efficient digital compute-in-memory (DCIM) macro based on a compact 3T1R ReRAM bitcell for edge-AI inference. The proposed bitcell occupies only 0.85 um^2 and supports reliable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ankit Kumar Tenwar , Mukul Lokhande , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

High-performance computing systems are moving towards 2.5D and 3D memory hierarchies, based on High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) to mitigate the main memory bottlenecks. This trend is also creating new opportunities…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Erfan Azarkhish , Davide Rossi , Igor Loi , Luca Benini

Spatial signal processors (SSP) for emerging millimeter-wave wireless networks are critically dependent on link discovery. To avoid loss in communication, mobile devices need to locate narrow directional beams with millisecond latency. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Chung-Ching Lin , Chase Puglisi , Veljko Boljanovic , Soumen Mohapatra , Han Yan , Erfan Ghaderi , Deukhyoun Heo , Danijela Cabric , Subhanshu Gupta

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis and performance enhancement of short block length channel detection incorporating training information. The current communication systems' short block length channel detection typically consists…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mody Sy , Raymond Knopp

Quantization for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has shown significant progress with the intention of reducing the cost of computation and storage with low-bitwidth data inputs. There are, however, no systematic studies on how an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xinheng Liu , Yao Chen , Prakhar Ganesh , Junhao Pan , Jinjun Xiong , Deming Chen

The full future of the sixth generation will develop a fully data-driven that provide terabit rate per second, and adopt an average of 1000+ massive number of connections per person in 10 years 2030 virtually instantaneously. Data-driven…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Adeeb Salh , Lukman Audah , Qazwan Abdullah , Abdullah Noorsaliza , Nor Shahida Mohd Shah , Jameel Mukred , Shipun Hamzah

Transformers have revolutionized AI in natural language processing and computer vision, but their large computation and memory demands pose major challenges for hardware acceleration. In practice, end-to-end throughput is often limited by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Qunyou Liu , Marina Zapater , David Atienza

6G networks are composed of subnetworks expected to meet ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) requirements for mission-critical applications such as industrial control and automation. An often-ignored aspect in URLLC is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Fateme Salehi , Aamir Mahmood , Sarder Fakhrul Abedin , Kyi Thar , Mikael Gidlund

In the wake of the success of convolutional neural networks in image classification, object recognition, speech recognition, etc., the demand for deploying these compute-intensive ML models on embedded and mobile systems with tight power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Lukas Cavigelli , Georg Rutishauser , Luca Benini

Neural receiver models are proposed to jointly optimize multiple functionalities of wireless receivers; however, a comprehensive receiver model that replaces the entire physical layer blocks has not yet been presented in the literature. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Osama Saleem , Mohammed Alfaqawi , Pierre Merdrignac , Abdelaziz Bensrhair , Soheyb Ribouh

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…

To accommodate the evolving demands of unmanned operations, the future sixth-generation (6G) network will support not only communication links but also sensing-communication-computing-control ($\mathbf{SC}^3$) loops. In each $\mathbf{SC}^3$…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Xinran Fang , Chengleyang Lei , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Ning Ge , Shi Jin

This paper presents SynapticCore-X, a modular and resource-efficient neural processing architecture optimized for deployment on low-cost FPGA platforms. The design integrates a lightweight RV32IMC RISC-V control core with a configurable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Arya Parameshwara

Attention-based models demand flexible hardware to manage diverse kernels with varying arithmetic intensities and memory access patterns. Large clusters with shared L1 memory, a common architectural pattern, struggle to fully utilize their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Bowen Wang , Marco Bertuletti , Yichao Zhang , Victor J. B. Jung , Luca Benini

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) combine large amounts of parallelizable computation with frequent memory access. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can achieve low latency and high throughput CNN inference by implementing dataflow…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Mario Doumet , Marius Stan , Mathew Hall , Vaughn Betz

This report describes the design and proposal of a wireless link capable of broadcasting at 1 Gbps. For this application, isotropic antennas, 256 QAM modulation, and BER level less than 1e-5, without using error correction coding, were…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 David Noel

This paper introduces the first low-power hardware accelerator for Spiking Transformers, an emerging alternative to traditional artificial neural networks. By modifying the base Spikformer model to use IAND instead of residual addition, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Bo-Yu Chen , Tian-Sheuan Chang