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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

The paper proposes in-memory computing (IMC) solution for the design and implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) based cryptographic algorithm. This research aims at increasing the cyber security of autonomous driverless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Hala Ajmi , Fakhreddine Zayer , Amira Hadj Fredj , Belgacem Hamdi , Baker Mohammad , Naoufel Werghi , Jorge Dias

Implementing embedded neural network processing at the edge requires efficient hardware acceleration that couples high computational performance with low power consumption. Driven by the rapid evolution of network architectures and their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Petar Jokic , Erfan Azarkhish , Andrea Bonetti , Marc Pons , Stephane Emery , Luca Benini

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

Despite their tremendous success and versatility, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) such as Large Language Models (LLMs) suffer from inference inefficiency and rely on advanced computational infrastructure. To address these challenges and make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Mohsen Dehghankar , Mahdi Erfanian , Abolfazl Asudeh

Emerging memristor computing systems have demonstrated great promise in improving the energy efficiency of neural network (NN) algorithms. The NN weights stored in memristor crossbars, however, may face potential theft attacks due to the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Minhui Zou , Junlong Zhou , Xiaotong Cui , Wei Wang , Shahar Kvatinsky

Matrix multiplication is the bedrock in Deep Learning inference application. When it comes to hardware acceleration on edge computing devices, matrix multiplication often takes up a great majority of the time. To achieve better performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yuyang Zhang , Dik Hin Leung , Min Guo , Yijia Xiao , Haoyue Liu , Yunfei Li , Jiyuan Zhang , Guan Wang , Zhen Chen

Compute-in-memory (CIM) techniques are widely employed in energy-efficient artificial intelligent (AI) processors. They alleviate power and latency bottlenecks caused by extensive data movements between compute and storage units. To extend…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jianyi Yu , Tengxiao Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Xiang Fu , Fei Qiao , Ying Wang , Rui Yuan , Liyuan Liu , Cong Shi

In-memory computing (IMC) enables energy-efficient neural network inference by computing analog matrix-vector multiplications (MVM) in memory crossbar arrays. In this work we present a simulation framework for N-ary crossbar architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Anatole Moureaux , Anthony Lopes Temporao , Flavio Abreu Araujo

Processing-in-memory (PIM) is a promising computing paradigm to tackle the "memory wall" challenge. However, PIM system-level benefits over traditional von Neumann architecture can be reduced when the memory array cannot fully store all the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Peilin Chen , Xiaoxuan Yang

Neuromorphic Multiply-And-Accumulate (MAC) circuits utilizing synaptic weight elements based on SRAM or novel Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) provide a promising approach for highly efficient hardware representations of neural networks. NVM…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Borna Obradovic , Titash Rakshit , Ryan Hatcher , Jorge A. Kittl , Mark S. Rodder

Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures have demonstrated great potential in accelerating numerous deep learning tasks. Particularly, resistive random-access memory (RRAM) devices provide a promising hardware substrate to build PIM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Weidong Cao , Yilong Zhao , Adith Boloor , Yinhe Han , Xuan Zhang , Li Jiang

Deep neural networks have usually to be compressed and accelerated for their usage in low-power, e.g. mobile, devices. Recently, massively-parallel hardware accelerators were developed that offer high throughput and low latency at low power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Thomas Pfeil

The new generation of machine learning processors have evolved from multi-core and parallel architectures that were designed to efficiently implement matrix-vector-multiplications (MVMs). This is because at the fundamental level, neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Nazreen P. M. , Shantanu Chakrabartty , Chetan Singh Thakur

In-memory computing (IMC) with non-volatile memories (NVMs) has emerged as a promising approach to address the rapidly growing computational demands of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Mapping DNN layers spatially onto NVM-based IMC…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Abinand Nallathambi , Christin David Bose , Wilfried Haensch , Anand Raghunathan

Compute in-memory (CIM) is a promising technique that minimizes data transport, the primary performance bottleneck and energy cost of most data intensive applications. This has found wide-spread adoption in accelerating neural networks for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Brian Crafton , Samuel Spetalnick , Arijit Raychowdhury

Weight-only quantization has been widely explored in large language models (LLMs) to reduce memory storage and data loading overhead. During deployment on single-instruction-multiple-threads (SIMT) architectures, weights are stored in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Ruokai Yin , Yuhang Li , Priyadarshini Panda

Mass spectrometry (MS) is essential for proteomics and metabolomics but faces impending challenges in efficiently processing the vast volumes of data. This paper introduces SpecPCM, an in-memory computing (IMC) accelerator designed to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Keming Fan , Ashkan Moradifirouzabadi , Xiangjin Wu , Zheyu Li , Flavio Ponzina , Anton Persson , Eric Pop , Tajana Rosing , Mingu Kang

We propose two optimization techniques to minimize memory usage and computation while meeting system timing constraints for real-time classification in wearable systems. Our method derives a hierarchical classifier structure for Support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Mahdi Pedram , Mahsan Rofouei , Francesco Fraternali , Zhila Esna Ashari , Hassan Ghasemzadeh

The Partitioning Min-Max Weighted Matching (PMMWM) problem is an NP-hard problem that combines the problem of partitioning a group of vertices of a bipartite graph into disjoint subsets with limited size and the classical Min-Max Weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Yuxuan Wang , Jinyao Xie , Jiongzhi Zheng , Kun He