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Transformers achieve state-of-the-art performance in natural language processing, vision, and scientific computing, but demand high computation and memory. To address these challenges, we present ASTRA, the first silicon-photonic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 S. Afifi , O. Alo , I. Thakkar , S. Pasricha

Developing accurate and reliable Compute-In-Memory (CIM) architectures is becoming a key research focus to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) tasks on hardware, particularly Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). In that regard, there has been…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Omar Numan , Gaurav Singh , Kazybek Adam , Jelin Leslin , Aleksi Korsman , Otto Simola , Marko Kosunen , Jussi Ryynänen , Martin Andraud

This paper proposes a deep learning model (RCNet) for Delta-Sigma ($\Delta\Sigma$) ADCs. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) allow to describe both modulators and filters. This analogy is applied to Incremental ADCs (IADC). High-end optimizers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Arnaud Verdant , William Guicquero , Jérôme Chossat

Flexibility at hardware level is the main driving force behind adaptive systems whose aim is to realise microarhitecture deconfiguration 'online'. This feature allows the software/hardware stack to tolerate drastic changes of the workload…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Ana Lava , Mahdi Jelodari Mamaghani , Siamak Mohammadi , Steve Furber

Compute-in-memory (CiM) is a promising approach to improving the computing speed and energy efficiency in dataintensive applications. Beyond existing CiM techniques of bitwise logic-in-memory operations and dot product operations, this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yiming Chen , Yushen Fu , Mingyen Lee , Sumitha George , Yongpan Liu , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan , Huazhong Yang , Xueqing Li

This paper presents a novel architecture utilizing a 10T SRAM cell for XNOR-based in-memory computing, aimed at mitigating the extensive routing challenges typically encountered in conventional in-memory computing systems. By integrating a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Narendra Singh Dhakad , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

Compute-in-SRAM architectures offer a promising approach to achieving higher performance and energy efficiency across a range of data-intensive applications. However, prior evaluations have largely relied on simulators or small prototypes,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Niansong Zhang , Wenbo Zhu , Courtney Golden , Dan Ilan , Hongzheng Chen , Christopher Batten , Zhiru Zhang

We demonstrate the first hardware implementation of an oscillatory neural network (ONN) utilizing resistive memory (ReRAM) for coupling elements. A ReRAM crossbar array chip, integrated into the Back End of Line (BEOL) of CMOS technology,…

Computationally intensive Inference tasks of Deep neural networks have enforced revolution of new accelerator architecture to reduce power consumption as well as latency. The key figure of merit in hardware inference accelerators is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Hyunbin Park , Dohyun Kim , Shiho Kim

Crossbar memory arrays have been touted as the workhorse of in-memory computing (IMC)-based acceleration of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), but the associated hardware non-idealities limit their efficacy. To address this, cross-layer design…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jeffry Victor , Chunguang Wang , Sumeet K. Gupta

Recent works propose neural network- (NN-) inspired analog-to-digital converters (NNADCs) and demonstrate their great potentials in many emerging applications. These NNADCs often rely on resistive random-access memory (RRAM) devices to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Weidong Cao , Liu Ke , Ayan Chakrabarti , Xuan Zhang

For decades, advances in electronics were directly driven by the scaling of CMOS transistors according to Moore's law. However, both the CMOS scaling and the classical computer architecture are approaching fundamental and practical limits,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Mohammed A. Zidan , YeonJoo Jeong , Jong Hong Shin , Chao Du , Zhengya Zhang , Wei D. Lu

Current Artificial Intelligence (AI) computation systems face challenges, primarily from the memory-wall issue, limiting overall system-level performance, especially for Edge devices with constrained battery budgets, such as smartphones,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Lucas Huijbregts , Liu Hsiao-Hsuan , Paul Detterer , Said Hamdioui , Amirreza Yousefzadeh , Rajendra Bishnoi

Modern data-driven applications expose limitations of von Neumann architectures - extensive data movement, low throughput, and poor energy efficiency. Accelerators improve performance but lack flexibility and require data transfers.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Vincenzo Petrolo , Flavia Guella , Michele Caon , Pasquale Davide Schiavone , Guido Masera , Maurizio Martina

As deep neural networks require tremendous amount of computation and memory, analog computing with emerging memory devices is a promising alternative to digital computing for edge devices. However, because of the increasing simulation time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Chaeun Lee , Seyoung Kim

This research work proposes a design of an analog ReRAM-based PIM (processing-in-memory) architecture for fast and efficient CNN (convolutional neural network) inference. For the overall architecture, we use the basic hardware hierarchy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Sho Ko , Shimeng Yu

Recent advances in deep neural network demand more than millions of parameters to handle and mandate the high-performance computing resources with improved efficiency. The cross-bar array architecture has been considered as one of the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Youngseok Kim , Seyoung Kim , Chun-chen Yeh , Vijay Narayanan , Jungwook Choi

The rapid growth of deep neural network (DNN) workloads has significantly increased the demand for large-capacity on-chip SRAM in machine learning (ML) applications, with SRAM arrays now occupying a substantial fraction of the total die…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Subhradip Chakraborty , Ankur Singh , Xuming Chen , Gourav Datta , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal

The share of the top 500 supercomputers with NVIDIA GPUs is now over 25% and continues to grow. While fault tolerance is a critical issue for supercomputing, there does not currently exist an efficient, scalable solution for CUDA…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Twinkle Jain , Gene Cooperman

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) applications form a major class of AI-powered, low-latency data center workloads. Most execution models for RNN acceleration break computation graphs into BLAS kernels, which lead to significant inter-kernel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Tian Zhao , Yaqi Zhang , Kunle Olukotun