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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

In-memory computing hardware accelerators allow more than 10x improvements in peak efficiency and performance for matrix-vector multiplications (MVM) compared to conventional digital designs. For this, they have gained great interest for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Pouya Houshmand , Marian Verhelst

In this paper, we propose FusionCIM, an operator-fusion-driven compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerator architecture for efficient and scalable LLM inference, with three key innovations: (1) a hybrid CIM pipeline architecture that maps QKT…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zihao Xuan , Jia Chen , Yewen Li , Wei Xuan , Hegan Chen , Xiao Huo , Fengbin Tu

Memory performance is often the main bottleneck in modern computing systems. In recent years, researchers have attempted to scale the memory wall by leveraging new technology such as CXL, HBM, and in- and near-memory processing. Developers…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ashwin Poduval , Hayden Coffey , Michael Swift

The Von Neumann bottleneck, which relates to the energy cost of moving data from memory to on-chip core and vice versa, is a serious challenge in state-of-the-art AI architectures, like Convolutional Neural Networks' (CNNs) accelerators.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Cristian Sestito , Ahmed J. Abdelmaksoud , Shady Agwa , Themis Prodromakis

We show that the wavefront algorithm can achieve higher pairwise read alignment throughput on a UPMEM PIM system than on a server-grade multi-threaded CPU system.

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Safaa Diab , Amir Nassereldine , Mohammed Alser , Juan Gómez Luna , Onur Mutlu , Izzat El Hajj

Many of today's deep neural network accelerators, e.g., Google's TPU and NVIDIA's tensor core, are built around accelerating the general matrix multiplication (i.e., GEMM). However, supporting convolution on GEMM-based accelerators is not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Yangjie Zhou , Mengtian Yang , Cong Guo , Jingwen Leng , Yun Liang , Quan Chen , Minyi Guo , Yuhao Zhu

Tile-based many-Processing Element (PE) accelerators can achieve competitive performance on General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM), but they are extremely hard to program, as their optimal software mapping is deeply coupled with hardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Aofeng Shen , Chi Zhang , Yakup Budanaz , Alexandru Calotoiu , Torsten Hoefler , Luca Benini

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

In recent years, memory wall has been a great performance bottleneck of computer system. To overcome it, Non-Volatile Main Memory (NVMM) technology has been discussed widely to provide a much larger main memory capacity. Last year, Intel…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Tianyue Lu , Haiyang Pan , Mingyu Chen

In this paper, we propose PIM-LLM, a hybrid architecture developed to accelerate 1-bit large language models (LLMs). PIM-LLM leverages analog processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures and digital systolic arrays to accelerate low-precision…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Jinendra Malekar , Peyton Chandarana , Md Hasibul Amin , Mohammed E. Elbtity , Ramtin Zand

This paper presents an in-memory computing (IMC) architecture for image denoising. The proposed SRAM based in-memory processing framework works in tandem with approximate computing on a binary image generated from neuromorphic vision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Sumon Kumar Bose , Vivek Mohan , Arindam Basu

Generic matrix multiplication (GEMM) and one-dimensional convolution/cross-correlation (CONV) kernels often constitute the bulk of the compute- and memory-intensive processing within image/audio recognition and matching systems. We propose…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Mohammad Ashraful Anam , Paul N. Whatmough , Yiannis Andreopoulos

While deep neural network (DNN)-based video denoising has demonstrated significant performance, deploying state-of-the-art models on edge devices remains challenging due to stringent real-time and energy efficiency requirements.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Shan Gao , Zhiqiang Wu , Yawen Niu , Xiaotao Li , Qingqing Xu

Multimodal stacks that mix ViTs, CNNs, GNNs, and transformer NLP strain embedded platforms because their compute/memory patterns diverge and hard real-time targets leave little slack. TRINE is a single-bitstream FPGA accelerator and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Hyunwoo Oh , Hanning Chen , Sanggeon Yun , Yang Ni , Suyeon Jang , Behnam Khaleghi , Fei Wen , Mohsen Imani

The ever-increasing computation complexity of fast-growing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has requested new computing paradigms to overcome the memory wall in conventional Von Neumann computing architectures. The emerging Computing-In-Memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Kaining Zhou , Yangshuo He , Rui Xiao , Kejie Huang

Realizing today's cloud-level artificial intelligence functionalities directly on devices distributed at the edge of the internet calls for edge hardware capable of processing multiple modalities of sensory data (e.g. video, audio) at…

Several manufacturers have already started to commercialize near-bank Processing-In-Memory (PIM) architectures. Near-bank PIM architectures place simple cores close to DRAM banks and can yield significant performance and energy improvements…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Christina Giannoula , Ivan Fernandez , Juan Gómez-Luna , Nectarios Koziris , Georgios Goumas , Onur Mutlu

To support emerging applications ranging from holographic communications to extended reality, next-generation mobile wireless communication systems require ultra-fast and energy-efficient baseband processors. Traditional complementary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Qunsong Zeng , Jiawei Liu , Mingrui Jiang , Jun Lan , Yi Gong , Zhongrui Wang , Yida Li , Can Li , Jim Ignowski , Kaibin Huang

The speed of modern digital systems is severely limited by memory latency (the ``Memory Wall'' problem). Data exchange between Logic and Memory is also responsible for a large part of the system energy consumption. Logic--In--Memory (LiM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Fabrizio Ottati , Giovanna Turvani , Marco Vacca , Guido Masera