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Recent years have seen a rapid increase in research activity in the field of DRAM-based Processing-In-Memory (PIM) accelerators, where the analog computing capability of DRAM is employed by minimally changing the inherent structure of DRAM…

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Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) based in-memory computing (IMC) accelerators offer significant performance and energy advantages for deep neural networks (DNNs), but face three major limitations: (1) they support only \textit{static}…

Using a very low-resolution analog-to-digital convertor (ADC) unit at each antenna can remarkably reduce the hardware cost and power consumption of a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. However, such a pure low-resolution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ti-Cao Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Tao Jiang

This paper introduces a new, highly energy-efficient, Adiabatic Capacitive Neuron (ACN) hardware implementation of an Artificial Neuron (AN) with improved functionality, accuracy, robustness and scalability over previous work. The paper…

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This paper presents an analytical framework for the data detection in massive multiple-input multiple-output uplink systems with 1-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Considering the single-user case, we provide closed-form expressions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Italo Atzeni , Antti Tölli

3D point cloud neural networks have significantly enhanced the perceptual capabilities of resource-limited mobile intelligent systems. However, despite the transformative impact, the point cloud algorithm suffers from substantial memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Dengfeng Wang , Shunqin Cai , Yanan Sun

Motivated by the practical constraints arising in emerging sensor network and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, the zero-delay transmission of a Gaussian measurement over a real single-input multiple-output (SIMO) additive white…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Morteza Varasteh , Borzoo Rassouli , Osvaldo Simeone , Deniz Gunduz

Analog In-memory Computing (IMC) has demonstrated energy-efficient and low latency implementation of convolution and fully-connected layers in deep neural networks (DNN) by using physics for computing in parallel resistive memory arrays.…

The precise programming of crossbar arrays of unit-cells is crucial for obtaining high matrix-vector-multiplication (MVM) accuracy in analog in-memory computing (AIMC) cores. We propose a radically different approach based on directly…

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…

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Operations typically used in machine learning al-gorithms (e.g. adds and soft max) can be implemented bycompact analog circuits. Analog Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designs that implement these algorithms using techniques…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Shih-Chii Liu , John Paul Strachan , Arindam Basu

Computing-in-memory (CIM) is renowned in deep learning due to its high energy efficiency resulting from highly parallel computing with minimal data movement. However, current SRAM-based CIM designs suffer from long latency for loading…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are computationally intensive and often accelerated using crossbar-based in-memory computing (IMC) architectures. However, large convolutional layers must be partitioned across multiple crossbars,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shuai Dong , Junyi Yang , Ye Ke , Hongyang Shang , Arindam Basu

In this paper we prove optimality of a certain class of Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs), which can be viewed as generalized Delta-Sigma Modulators (DSMs), with respect to a performance measure that can be characterized as the worst-case…

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As the economic and environmental costs of training and deploying large vision or language models increase dramatically, analog in-memory computing (AIMC) emerges as a promising energy-efficient solution. However, the training perspective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Zhaoxian Wu , Quan Xiao , Tayfun Gokmen , Omobayode Fagbohungbe , Tianyi Chen

Digit-serial arithmetic has emerged as a viable approach for designing hardware accelerators, reducing interconnections, area utilization, and power consumption. However, conventional methods suffer from performance and latency issues. To…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Malik Zohaib Nisar , Muhammad Sohail Ibrahim , Saeid Gorgin , Muhammad Usman , Jeong-A Lee

We present an analytical framework for the channel estimation and the data detection in massive multiple-input multiple-output uplink systems with 1-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and i.i.d. Rayleigh fading. First, we provide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Italo Atzeni , Antti Tölli

This paper presents a novel approach utilizing a scalable neural decoder application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) based on metal oxide memristors in a 180nm CMOS technology. The ASIC architecture employs in-memory computing with…

Compute-in-memory (CIM) has shown significant potential in efficiently accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs) at the edge, particularly in speeding up quantized models for inference applications. Recently, there has been growing interest…

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