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Even with generational improvements in DRAM technology, memory access latency still remains the major bottleneck for application accelerators, primarily due to limitations in memory interface IPs which cannot fully account for variations in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Sasindu Wijeratne , Sanket Pattnaik , Zhiyu Chen , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

The implementation of modern monitoring systems for power quality disturbances have the potential to generate substantial amounts of data, reaching a point where transmission and storage of high-frequency measurements become impractical.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Markus Stroot , Stefan Seiler , Philipp Lutat , Andreas Ulbig

AI clusters today are one of the major uses of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). However, HBM is suboptimal for AI workloads for several reasons. Analysis shows HBM is overprovisioned on write performance, but underprovisioned on density and…

We demonstrate a non-volatile magnetoelectric magnonic memory (MEMM) that enables fully electrical write/read via direct magnon-driven sensing in an insulating antiferromagnet. A fabricated SrIrO3/La-BiFeO3/SrIrO3 trilayer exhibits sub-100…

Recently, interest in programmable photonics integrated circuits has grown as a potential hardware framework for deep neural networks, quantum computing, and field programmable arrays (FPGAs). However, these circuits are constrained by the…

The human brain simultaneously optimizes synaptic weights and topology by growing, pruning, and strengthening synapses while performing all computation entirely in memory. In contrast, modern artificial-intelligence systems separate weight…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Songqi Wang , Yue Zhang , Jia Chen , Xinyuan Zhang , Yi Li , Ning Lin , Yangu He , Jichang Yang , Yingjie Yu , Yi Li , Zhongrui Wang , Xiaojuan Qi , Han Wang

The nanoPU is a new networking-optimized CPU designed to minimize tail latency for RPCs. By bypassing the cache and memory hierarchy, the nanoPU directly places arriving messages into the CPU register file. The wire-to-wire latency through…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Stephen Ibanez , Alex Mallery , Serhat Arslan , Theo Jepsen , Muhammad Shahbaz , Nick McKeown , Changhoon Kim

Artificial intelligence is widely used in everyday life. However, an insufficient computing efficiency due to the so-called von Neumann bottleneck cannot satisfy the demand for real-time processing of rapidly growing data. Memristive…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Jing Yang , Lingxiang Hu , Liufeng Shen , Jingrui Wang , Peihong Cheng , Huanming Lu , Fei Zhuge , Zhizhen Ye

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,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Georgios Papandroulidakis , Shady Agwa , Ahmet Cirakoglu , Themis Prodromakis

We have modified a commercial NOR flash memory array to enable high-precision tuning of individual floating-gate cells for analog computing applications. The modified array area per cell in a 180 nm process is about 1.5 um^2. While this…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-10-10 F. Merrikh Bayat , X. Guo , H. A. Ommani , N. Do , K. K. Likharev , D. B. Strukov

Progress in high-performance computing demands significant advances in memory technology. Among novel memory technologies that promise efficient device operation on a sub-ns timescale, resistance switching between charge ordered phases of…

This paper presents 6T SRAM cell-based bit-parallel in-memory computing (IMC) architecture to support various computations with reconfigurable bit-precision. In the proposed technique, bit-line computation is performed with a short WL…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Kyeongho Lee , Jinho Jeong , Sungsoo Cheon , Woong Choi , Jongsun Park

Hardware neural networks that implement synaptic weights with embedded non-volatile memory, such as spin torque memory (ST-MRAM), are a major lead for low energy artificial intelligence. In this work, we propose an approximate storage…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Nicolas Locatelli , Adrien F. Vincent , Damien Querlioz

This paper presents a novel end-to-end methodology for enabling the deployment of low-error deep networks on microcontrollers. To fit the memory and computational limitations of resource-constrained edge-devices, we exploit mixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Manuele Rusci , Alessandro Capotondi , Luca Benini

The progress in neuromorphic computing is fueled by the development of novel nonvolatile memories capable of storing analog information and implementing neural computation efficiently. However, like most other analog circuits, these devices…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Z. Fahimi , M. R. Mahmoodi , M. Klachko , H. Nili , H. Kim , D. B. Strukov

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become essential in a variety of applications due to their advanced language understanding and generation capabilities. However, their computational and memory requirements pose significant challenges to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Cristobal Ortega , Yann Falevoz , Renaud Ayrignac

Isambard-AI is a new, leadership-class supercomputer, designed to support AI-related research. Based on the HPE Cray EX4000 system, and housed in a new, energy efficient Modular Data Centre in Bristol, UK, Isambard-AI employs 5,448 NVIDIA…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Simon McIntosh-Smith , Sadaf R Alam , Christopher Woods

The increasing computational demand of AI workloads has intensified the need for energy-efficient in-memory and near-memory computing architectures, particularly because data movement often consumes significantly more energy than…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Sarthak Antal , Steve Enosh

Ensuring safety in high-speed autonomous vehicles requires rapid control loops and tightly bounded delays from perception to actuation. Many open-source autonomy systems rely on ROS 2 middleware; when multiple sensor and control nodes share…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yuankai He , Weisong Shi

We introduce an open-source architecture for next-generation Radio-Access Network baseband processing: 1024 latency-tolerant 32-bit RISC-V cores share 4 MiB of L1 memory via an ultra-low latency interconnect (7-11 cycles), a modular Direct…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yichao Zhang , Marco Bertuletti , Chi Zhang , Samuel Riedel , Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli , Luca Benini