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High-fidelity operation of quantum computers requires precise knowledge of the physical system through characterization. For motion-mediated entanglement generation in trapped ions, it is crucial to have precise knowledge of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Qiyao Liang , Mingyu Kang , Ming Li , Yunseong Nam

Memory latency, bandwidth, capacity, and energy increasingly limit performance. In this paper, we reconsider proposed system architectures that consist of huge (many-terabyte to petabyte scale) memories shared among large numbers of CPUs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Samuel Dayo , Shuhan Liu , Peijing Li , Philip Levis , Subhasish Mitra , Thierry Tambe , David Tennenhouse , H. -S. Philip Wong

This paper presents a novel algorithm that aims at minimizing the required decoding energy by exploiting a general energy model for HEVC-decoder solutions. We incorporate the energy model into the HEVC encoder such that it is capable of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-04 Christian Herglotz , André Kaup

This paper summarizes the idea of Adaptive-Latency DRAM (AL-DRAM), which was published in HPCA 2015, and examines the work's significance and future potential. AL-DRAM is a mechanism that optimizes DRAM latency based on the DRAM module and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Donghyuk Lee , Yoongu Kim , Gennady Pekhimenko , Samira Khan , Vivek Seshadri , Kevin Chang , Onur Mutlu

Memory-bound algorithms show complex performance and energy consumption behavior on multicore processors. We choose the lattice-Boltzmann method (LBM) on an Intel Sandy Bridge cluster as a prototype scenario to investigate if and how…

Performance · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Markus Wittmann , Georg Hager , Thomas Zeiser , Jan Treibig , Gerhard Wellein

Processing-in-Memory (PIM) enhances memory with computational capabilities, potentially solving energy and latency issues associated with data transfer between memory and processors. However, managing concurrent computation and data flow…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ahmed Mamdouh , Haoran Geng , Michael Niemier , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Dayane Reis

In this paper, we exploit the aggressive supply voltage underscaling technique in Block RAMs (BRAMs) of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to improve the energy efficiency of Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). Additionally, we evaluate and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Behzad Salami , Osman Unsal , Adrian Cristal

This paper proposes and evaluates a novel architecture for a low-power Time-to-Digital Converter with high resolution, optimized for both integration in multichannel chips and high rate operation (40 Mconversion/s/channel). This converter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Florent Bouyjou

For neuromorphic engineering to emulate the human brain, improving memory density with low power consumption is an indispensable but challenging goal. In this regard, emerging RRAMs have attracted considerable interest for their unique…

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit memory-intensive behavior during decoding, making it a key bottleneck in LLM inference. To accelerate decoding execution, hybrid-bonding-based 3D-DRAM has been adopted in LLM accelerators. While this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Cong Li , Chenhao Xue , Yi Ren , Xiping Dong , Yu Cheng , Yinbo Hu , Fujun Bai , Yixin Guo , Xiping Jiang , Qiang Wu , Zhi Yang , Zhe Cheng , Yuan Xie , Guangyu Sun

This paper describes a low-power processor tailored for fast Fourier transform computations where transport triggering template is exploited. The processor is software-programmable while retaining an energy-efficiency comparable to existing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Jakub Žádník , Jarmo Takala

Sparse tensors are the most used representation of sparse multidimensional data. Operations that decompose them, selecting their most important features while reducing their dimension, have become prevalent procedures in machine learning.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Daniel Pacheco , Leonel Sousa , Aleksandar Ilic

Emerging computing applications such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) are facing a memory wall with existing on-package memory solutions that are unable to meet the power-efficient bandwidth demands. We propose to enhance UCIe with memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Debendra Das Sharma , Swadesh Choudhary , Peter Onufryk , Rob Pelt

The standard LSTM, although it succeeds in the modeling long-range dependences, suffers from a highly complex structure that can be simplified through modifications to its gate units. This paper was to perform an empirical comparison…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Yuzhen Lu

Phase-change memory (PCM) devices have multiple banks to serve memory requests in parallel. Unfortunately, if two requests go to the same bank, they have to be served one after another, leading to lower system performance. We observe that a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Shihao Song , Anup Das , Onur Mutlu , Nagarajan Kandasamy

Increasing AI computing demands and slowing transistor scaling have led to the advent of Multi-Chip-Module (MCMs) based accelerators. MCMs enable cost-effective scalability, higher yield, and modular reuse by partitioning large chips into…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Ritik Raj , Shengjie Lin , William Won , Tushar Krishna

A slow-light scheme is proposed for simultaneous frequency conversion and spectral compression of a weak optical pulse, which may be in any quantum state including a single-photon state. Such a process plays crucial roles in a number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Michael G. Raymer

Determining the ideal architecture for deep learning models, such as the number of layers and neurons, is a difficult and resource-intensive process that frequently relies on human tuning or computationally costly optimization approaches.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Saad Hameed , Basheer Qolomany , Samir Brahim Belhaouari , Mohamed Abdallah , Junaid Qadir , Ala Al-Fuqaha

Emerging machine learning (ML) models (e.g., transformers) involve memory pin bandwidth-bound matrix-vector (MV) computation in inference. By avoiding pin crossings, processing in memory (PIM) can improve performance and energy for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mingxuan He , Mithuna Thottethodi , T. N. Vijaykumar

In recent times adaptive regulation of sampling rates has gained significant attention in research community and researchers has demonstrated it's effectiveness in embedded control applications from different perspectives. In low power…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Rajorshee Raha