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Analog In-Memory Computing (AIMC) is emerging as a disruptive paradigm for heterogeneous computing, potentially delivering orders of magnitude better peak performance and efficiency over traditional digital signal processing architectures…

The advancement of artificial intelligence demands flexible multimodal data processing with high throughput and energy efficiency. Photonic integrated circuits (PIC) has demonstrated promising potentials in terms of low latency and low…

This paper proposes to adopt advanced monolithic silicon-photonics integrated-circuits manufacturing capabilities to achieve a system-on-chip photonic-electronic linear-algebra accelerator with the features of optical comb-based broadband…

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The explosion of artificial intelligence and machine-learning algorithms, connected to the exponential growth of the exchanged data, is driving a search for novel application-specific hardware accelerators. Among the many, the photonics…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Nicola Peserico , Bhavin J. Shastri , Volker J. Sorger

The rapidly growing importance of Machine Learning (ML) applications, coupled with their ever-increasing model size and inference energy footprint, has created a strong need for specialized ML hardware architectures. Numerous ML…

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Optical and optoelectronic approaches of performing matrix-vector multiplication (MVM) operations have shown the great promise of accelerating machine learning (ML) algorithms with unprecedented performance. The incorporation of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Weilu Gao , Cunxi Yu , Ruiyang Chen

Robotic continuous control tasks impose stringent demands on the energy efficiency and latency of computing architectures due to their high-dimensional state spaces and real-time interaction requirements. Conventional electronic computing…

Photonic computing chips have made significant progress in accelerating linear computations, but nonlinear computations are usually implemented in the digital domain, which introduces additional system latency and power consumption, and…

The rapidly increasing demands for computational throughput, bandwidth, and memory capacity fueled by breakthroughs in machine learning pose substantial challenges for conventional electronic computing platforms. For digital scaling to keep…

In the "post-Moore era", the growing challenges in traditional computing have driven renewed interest in analog computing, leading to various proposals for the development of general-purpose analog computing (GPAC) systems. In this work, we…

The use of multi-chip modules (MCM) and/or multi-socket boards is the most suitable approach to increase the computation density of servers while keep chip yield attained. This paper introduces a new coherence protocol suitable, in terms of…

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Modern large language model workloads put increasing demands on parallel compute capability and on-chip memory capacity, while also stressing fine-grained data movement and synchronization. These trends motivate exploring and designing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yinrong Li , Zexin Fu , Yichao Zhang , Germain Haugou , Chi Zhang , Marco Bertuletti , Bowen Wang , Luca Benini

In split machine learning (ML), different partitions of a neural network (NN) are executed by different computing nodes, requiring a large amount of communication cost. To ease communication burden, over-the-air computation (OAC) can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yuzhi Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Yuqing Tian , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Caijun Zhong , Kai-Kit Wong

The rapid surge in data generated by Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) applications demands ultra-fast, scalable, and energy-efficient hardware, as traditional von Neumann architectures face…

The Artificial Intelligence models pose serious challenges in intensive computing and high-bandwidth communication for conventional electronic circuit-based computing clusters. Silicon photonic technologies, owing to their high speed, low…

Photonic processors use optical signals for computation, leveraging the high bandwidth and low loss of optical links. While many approaches have been proposed, including in memory photonic circuits, most efforts have focused on the physical…

We present several enhancements to the open-source ESP platform to support flexible and efficient on-chip communication for programmable accelerators in heterogeneous SoCs. These enhancements include 1) a flexible point-to-point…

We present XgenSilicon ML Compiler, a fully automated end-to-end compilation framework that transforms high-level machine learning models into optimized RISC-V assembly code for custom ASIC accelerators. By unifying the system's cost model…

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With technology scaling, the size of cache systems in chip-multiprocessors (CMPs) has been dramatically increased to efficiently store and manipulate a large amount of data in future applications and decrease the gap between cores and…

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Analog in-memory computing (AIMC) cores offers significant performance and energy benefits for neural network inference with respect to digital logic (e.g., CPUs). AIMCs accelerate matrix-vector multiplications, which dominate these…