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In this paper, we propose a novel memory-centric scheme based on CMOS SRAM for acceleration of data intensive applications. Our proposal aims at dynamically increasing the on-chip memory storage capacity of SRAM arrays on-demand. The…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Haripriya Sheshadri , Shwetha Vijayakumar , Ajey Jacob , Akhilesh Jaiswal

Analog compute-in-memory (CIM) in static random-access memory (SRAM) is promising for accelerating deep learning inference by circumventing the memory wall and exploiting ultra-efficient analog low-precision arithmetic. Latest analog CIM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zhiyu Chen , Ziyuan Wen , Weier Wan , Akhil Reddy Pakala , Yiwei Zou , Wei-Chen Wei , Zengyi Li , Yubei Chen , Kaiyuan Yang

Advances in Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) have bolstered the creation of smart industry solutions, including smart agriculture, healthcare and smart cities. Whilst related research contributes to enabling TinyML solutions on constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jared M. Ping , Ken J. Nixon

In this paper, we propose a high-precision SRAM-based CIM macro that can perform 4x4-bit MAC operations and yield 9-bit signed output. The inherent discharge branches of SRAM cells are utilized to apply time-modulated MAC and 9-bit ADC…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Xiaomeng Wang , Fengshi Tian , Xizi Chen , Jiakun Zheng , Xuejiao Liu , Fengbin Tu , Jie Yang , Mohamad Sawan , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Chi-Ying Tsui

The paradigm shift towards local and on-device inference under stringent resource constraints is represented by the tiny machine learning (TinyML) domain. The primary goal of TinyML is to integrate intelligence into tiny, low-cost devices…

Processing-in-memory (PIM) has emerged as the go to solution for addressing the von Neumann bottleneck in edge AI accelerators. However, state-of-the-art (SoTA) digital PIM approaches suffer from low compute density, primarily due to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Mukul Lokhande , Narendra Singh Dhakad , Seema Chouhan , Akash Sankhe , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

Performing data-intensive tasks in the von Neumann architecture is challenging to achieve both high performance and power efficiency due to the memory wall bottleneck. Computing-in-memory (CiM) is a promising mitigation approach by enabling…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Guodong Yin , Mufeng Zhou , Yiming Chen , Wenjun Tang , Zekun Yang , Mingyen Lee , Xirui Du , Jinshan Yue , Jiaxin Liu , Huazhong Yang , Yongpan Liu , Xueqing Li

The field of Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) has gained significant attention due to its potential to enable intelligent applications on resource-constrained devices. This review provides an in-depth analysis of the advancements in efficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-21 Minh Tri Lê , Pierre Wolinski , Julyan Arbel

A new algorithm for incremental learning in the context of Tiny Machine learning (TinyML) is presented, which is optimized for low-performance and energy efficient embedded devices. TinyML is an emerging field that deploys machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Marcus Rüb , Philipp Tuchel , Axel Sikora , Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder

In the context of industry 4.0, long-serving industrial machines can be retrofitted with process monitoring capabilities for future use in a smart factory. One possible approach is the deployment of wireless monitoring systems, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Tim Langer , Matthias Widra , Volkhard Beyer

Ternary large language models (LLMs), which utilize ternary precision weights and 8-bit activations, have demonstrated competitive performance while significantly reducing the high computational and memory requirements of full-precision…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Akul Malhotra , Sumeet Kumar Gupta

Herein, a bit-wise Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in-memory accelerator is implemented using Spin-Orbit Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (SOT-MRAM) computational sub-arrays. It utilizes a novel AND-Accumulation method capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Arman Roohi , Shaahin Angizi , Deliang Fan , Ronald F DeMara

Deploying mixed-precision neural networks on edge devices is friendly to hardware resources and power consumption. To support fully mixed-precision neural network inference, it is necessary to design flexible hardware accelerators for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Liang Zhao , Kunming Shao , Fengshi Tian , Tim Kwang-Ting Cheng , Chi-Ying Tsui , Yi Zou

Deep learning hardware designs have been bottlenecked by conventional memories such as SRAM due to density, leakage and parallel computing challenges. Resistive devices can address the density and volatility issues, but have been limited by…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Shihui Yin , Xiaoyu Sun , Shimeng Yu , Jae-sun Seo

Ternary Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have shown a large potential for highly energy-constrained systems by virtue of their low power operation (due to ultra-low precision) with only a mild degradation in accuracy. To enable an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Niharika Thakuria , Akul Malhotra , Sandeep K. Thirumala , Reena Elangovan , Anand Raghunathan , Sumeet K. Gupta

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

Always-on TinyML perception tasks in IoT applications require very high energy efficiency. Analog compute-in-memory (CiM) using non-volatile memory (NVM) promises high efficiency and also provides self-contained on-chip model storage.…

This paper describes a multi-functional deep in-memory processor for inference applications. Deep in-memory processing is achieved by embedding pitch-matched low-SNR analog processing into a standard 6T 16KB SRAM array in 65 nm CMOS. Four…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Mingu Kang , Sujan Gonugondla , Ameya Patil , Naresh Shanbhag

The proliferation of Transformer models is often constrained by the significant computational and memory bandwidth demands of deployment. To address this, we present MXFormer, a novel, hybrid, weight-stationary Compute-in-Memory (CIM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-16 George Karfakis , Samyak Chakrabarty , Vinod Kurian Jacob , Siyun Qiao , Subramanian S. Iyer , Sudhakar Pamarti , Puneet Gupta

We present the MEMA framework for the easy and quick derivation of efficient inference runtimes that minimize external memory accesses for matrix multiplication on TinyML systems. The framework accounts for hardware resource constraints and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Andrew Sabot , Vikas Natesh , H. T. Kung , Wei-Te Ting