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Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) is an emerging device for processing-in-memory (PIM) architecture to accelerate convolutional neural network (CNN). However, due to the highly coupled crossbar structure in the RRAM array, it is…

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Resistive In-Memory Computing (RIMC) offers ultra-efficient computation for edge AI but faces accuracy degradation due to RRAM conductance drift over time. Traditional retraining methods are limited by RRAM's high energy consumption, write…

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Hardware accelerators for neural networks have shown great promise for both performance and power. These accelerators are at their most efficient when optimized for a fixed functionality. But this inflexibility limits the longevity of the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Ayoosh Bansal , Chance Coats , Evan Lissoos , Benjamin Schreiber

Accelerating finite automata processing is critical for advancing real-time analytic in pattern matching, data mining, bioinformatics, intrusion detection, and machine learning. Recent in-memory automata accelerators leveraging SRAMs and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Yi Huang , Zhiyu Chen , Dai Li , Kaiyuan Yang

Open-source simulation tools play a crucial role for neuromorphic application engineers and hardware architects to investigate performance bottlenecks and explore design optimizations before committing to silicon. Reconfigurable…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sahil Hassan , Michael Inouye , Miguel C. Gonzalez , Ilkin Aliyev , Joshua Mack , Maisha Hafiz , Ali Akoglu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), as a subset of Machine Learning (ML) techniques, entail that real-world data can be learned and that decisions can be made in real-time. However, their wide adoption is hindered by a number of software and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Kamilya Smagulova , Mohammed E. Fouda , Fadi Kurdahi , Khaled Salama , Ahmed Eltawil

The continuous shift of computational bottlenecks to the memory access and data transfer, especially for AI applications, poses the urgent needs of re-engineering the computer architecture fundamentals. Many edge computing applications,…

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In the quest for low power, bio-inspired computation both memristive and memcapacitive-based Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have been the subjects of increasing focus for hardware implementation of neuromorphic computing. One step…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sachin Maheshwari , Alexander Serb , Christos Papavassiliou , Themistoklis Prodromakis

Graph accelerators have emerged as a promising solution for processing large-scale sparse graphs, leveraging the in-situ compu-tation of ReRAM-based crossbars to maximize computational efficiency. However, existing designs suffer from…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Masoud Rahimi , Sébastien Le Beux

Analog compute-in-memory (CIM) in static random-access memory (SRAM) is promising for accelerating deep learning inference by circumventing the memory wall and exploiting ultra-efficient analog low-precision arithmetic. Latest analog CIM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zhiyu Chen , Ziyuan Wen , Weier Wan , Akhil Reddy Pakala , Yiwei Zou , Wei-Chen Wei , Zengyi Li , Yubei Chen , Kaiyuan Yang

Power consumption has become the major concern in neural network accelerators for edge devices. The novel non-volatile-memory (NVM) based computing-in-memory (CIM) architecture has shown great potential for better energy efficiency.…

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Developing dedicated mixed-signal neuromorphic computing systems optimized for real-time sensory-processing in extreme edge-computing applications requires time-consuming design, fabrication, and deployment of full-custom neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Fernando M. Quintana , Maryada , Pedro L. Galindo , Elisa Donati , Giacomo Indiveri , Fernando Perez-Peña

We propose an analog implementation of the transcendental activation function leveraging two spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (SOT-MRAM) devices and a CMOS inverter. The proposed analog neuron circuit consumes 1.8-27x…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Md Hasibul Amin , Mohammed Elbtity , Mohammadreza Mohammadi , Ramtin Zand

In recent years, processing in memory (PIM) based mixedsignal designs have been proposed as energy- and area-efficient solutions with ultra high throughput to accelerate DNN computations. However, PIM designs are sensitive to imperfections…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Payman Behnam , Uday Kamal , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

SRAM-based Analog Compute-in-Memory (ACiM) demonstrates promising energy efficiency for deep neural network (DNN) processing. Nevertheless, efforts to optimize efficiency frequently compromise accuracy, and this trade-off remains…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wenlun Zhang , Shimpei Ando , Yung-Chin Chen , Kentaro Yoshioka

Digital Compute-in-Memory (DCiM) accelerates neural networks by reducing data movement. Approximate DCiM can further improve power-performance-area (PPA), but demands accuracy-constrained co-optimization across coupled architecture and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yiqi Zhou , Yue Yuan , Yikai Wang , Bohao Liu , Qinxin Mei , Zhuohua Liu , Shan Shen , Wei Xing , Daying Sun , Li Li , Guozhu Liu

Emerging resistive random-access memory (ReRAM) has recently been intensively investigated to accelerate the processing of deep neural networks (DNNs). Due to the in-situ computation capability, analog ReRAM crossbars yield significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Jingyang Zhang , Huanrui Yang , Fan Chen , Yitu Wang , Hai Li

Transformers have become the backbone of neural network architecture for most machine learning applications. Their widespread use has resulted in multiple efforts on accelerating attention, the basic building block of transformers. This…

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Resistive random-access memory (RRAM) provides an excellent platform for analog matrix computing (AMC), enabling both matrix-vector multiplication (MVM) and the solution of matrix equations through open-loop and closed-loop circuit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Pushen Zuo , Zhong Sun

Recently, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have made unprecedented progress, achieving the accuracy close to, or even better than human-level perception in various tasks. There is a timely need to map the latest software DCNNs to…

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