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The ever-increasing computational and storage requirements of modern applications and the slowdown of technology scaling pose major challenges to designing and implementing efficient computer architectures. To mitigate the bottlenecks of…

A novel sequence architecture is introduced, Versor, which uses Conformal Geometric Algebra (CGA) in place of traditional linear operations to achieve structural generalization and significant performance improvements on a variety of tasks,…

Processing-in-cache (PiC) and Processing-in-memory (PiM) architectures, especially those utilizing bit-line computing, offer promising solutions to mitigate data movement bottlenecks within the memory hierarchy. While previous studies have…

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems combine vector similarity search with large language models (LLMs) to deliver accurate, context-aware responses. However, co-locating the vector retriever and the LLM on shared GPU infrastructure…

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Heterogeneous systems increasingly rely on RISC-V cores as orchestration engines to manage data movement, synchronization, and scheduling across accelerators and reconfigurable fabrics. Conventional performance metrics, such as FLOPs,…

The number of battery-powered devices is rapidly increasing due to the widespread use of IoT-enabled nodes in various fields. Energy harvesters, which help to power embedded devices, are a feasible alternative to replacing battery-powered…

In modern solid-state drives (SSDs), the indexing of flash pages is a critical component in their storage controllers. It not only affects the data access performance, but also determines the efficiency of the precious in-device DRAM…

It looks very attractive to coordinate racetrack-memory (RM) and stochastic-computing (SC) jointly to build an ultra-low power neuron-architecture.However, the above combination has always been questioned in a fatal weakness that the heavy…

Vector searches on large-scale datasets are critical to modern online services like web search and RAG, which necessity storing the datasets and their index on the secondary storage like SSD. In this paper, we are the first to characterize…

Stochastic computing (SC) has emerged as a promising computing paradigm for neural acceleration. However, how to accelerate the state-of-the-art Vision Transformer (ViT) with SC remains unclear. Unlike convolutional neural networks, ViTs…

Despite the impressive search rate of one key per clock cycle, the update stage of a random-access-memory-based content-addressable-memory (RAM-based CAM) always suffers high latency. Two primary causes of such latency include: (1) the…

The advent of foundation models have revolutionized various fields, enabling unprecedented task accuracy and flexibility in computational linguistics, computer vision and other domains. Attention mechanism has become an essential component…

Compute in-memory (CIM) is a promising technique that minimizes data transport, the primary performance bottleneck and energy cost of most data intensive applications. This has found wide-spread adoption in accelerating neural networks for…

Migrating a monolith application into a microservices architecture can benefit from automation methods, which speed up the migration and improve the decomposition results. One of the current approaches that guide software architects on the…

Multi-core vector processor architectures excel in handling computationally intensive vectorizable tasks but struggle to achieve optimal resource utilization when facing sequential and control tasks that cannot be vectorized. This work…

Neural rendering has gained prominence for its high-quality output, which is crucial for AR/VR applications. However, its large voxel grid data size and irregular access patterns challenge real-time processing on edge devices. While…

This brief presents a runtime-adaptive, performance-enhanced vector engine featuring a low-resource, iterative CORDIC-based MAC unit for edge AI acceleration. The proposed design enables dynamic reconfiguration between approximate and…

The exponential growth of data necessitates distributed storage models, such as peer-to-peer systems and data federations. While distributed storage can reduce costs and increase reliability, the heterogeneity in storage capacity, I/O…