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Efficient memory management in heterogeneous systems is increasingly challenging due to diverse compute architectures (e.g., CPU, GPU, FPGA) and dynamic task mappings not known at compile time. Existing approaches often require programmers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Serhan Gener , Aditya Ukarande , Shilpa Mysore Srinivasa Murthy , Sahil Hassan , Joshua Mack , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Umit Ogras , Ali Akoglu

With the recent growth in demand for large-scale deep neural networks, compute in-memory (CiM) has come up as a prominent solution to alleviate bandwidth and on-chip interconnect bottlenecks that constrain Von-Neuman architectures. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Souvik Kundu , Anthony Sarah , Vinay Joshi , Om J Omer , Sreenivas Subramoney

In this paper, we propose FusionCIM, an operator-fusion-driven compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerator architecture for efficient and scalable LLM inference, with three key innovations: (1) a hybrid CIM pipeline architecture that maps QKT…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zihao Xuan , Jia Chen , Yewen Li , Wei Xuan , Hegan Chen , Xiao Huo , Fengbin Tu

With the expansion of data-intensive applications and increasing data volumes, providing an efficient solution to address growing energy consumption and performance degradation caused by the transfer of large amounts of data between the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Seyed Erfan Fatemieh , Reza Shahdi Alizadeh , Esmail Zarezadeh

Multi-core architectures feature an intricate hierarchy of cache memories, with multiple levels and sizes. To adequately decompose an application according to the traits of a particular memory hierarchy is a cumbersome task that may be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Hervé Paulino , Nuno Delgado

Computing-in-Memory (CIM) architectures have emerged as a promising solution for accelerating Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) by mitigating data movement bottlenecks. However, realizing the potential of CIM requires specialized dataflow…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Xiaolin He , Cenlin Duan , Yingjie Qi , Xiao Ma , Jianlei Yang

Processing-in-memory architectures have been regarded as a promising solution for CNN acceleration. Existing PIM accelerator designs rely heavily on the experience of experts and require significant manual design overhead. Manual design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Wanqian Li , Xiaotian Sun , Xinyu Wang , Lei Wang , Yinhe Han , Xiaoming Chen

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…

Graph processing requires irregular, fine-grained random access patterns incompatible with contemporary off-chip memory architecture, leading to inefficient data access. This inefficiency makes graph processing an extremely memory-bound…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Changmin Shin , Jaeyong Song , Hongsun Jang , Dogeun Kim , Jun Sung , Taehee Kwon , Jae Hyung Ju , Frank Liu , Yeonkyu Choi , Jinho Lee

Photonics is a promising technology to accelerate Deep Neural Networks as it can use optical interconnects to reduce data movement energy and it enables low-energy, high-throughput optical-analog computations. To realize these benefits in a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Tanner Andrulis , Gohar Irfan Chaudhry , Vinith M. Suriyakumar , Joel S. Emer , Vivienne Sze

Triangles are the basic substructure of networks and triangle counting (TC) has been a fundamental graph computing problem in numerous fields such as social network analysis. Nevertheless, like other graph computing problems, due to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Xueyan Wang , Jianlei Yang , Yinglin Zhao , Xiaotao Jia , Rong Yin , Xuhang Chen , Gang Qu , Weisheng Zhao

Low-cost, high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing (HTS) data is the backbone of the life sciences. Genome sequencing is now becoming a part of Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, and Participatory (termed 'P4') medicine. All genomic data…

The future of artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration demands a paradigm shift beyond the limitations of purely electronic or photonic architectures. Photonic analog computing delivers unmatched speed and parallelism but struggles with…

Large language model (LLM) serving is now limited by the key-value (KV) cache. During decode, each new token rereads prior KV state, so attention becomes a bandwidth- and capacity-heavy memory task. HBM-PIM helps by moving attention closer…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhuoran Li , Zhuohang Bian , Zihao Huang , Guangyu Sun , Yun Liang , Youwei Zhuo

In order to boost the performance of data-intensive computing on HPC systems, in-memory computing frameworks, such as Apache Spark and Flink, use local DRAM for data storage. Optimizing the memory allocation to data storage is critical to…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Pengfei Xuan , Feng Luo , Rong Ge , Pradip K Srimani

In recent years, various computing-in-memory (CIM) processors have been presented, showing superior performance over traditional architectures. To unleash the potential of various CIM architectures, such as device precision, crossbar size,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Songyun Qu , Shixin Zhao , Bing Li , Yintao He , Xuyi Cai , Lei Zhang , Ying Wang

Deploying Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) on edge devices is in high demand, but is hindered by the latency of massive data movement and computation on traditional architectures. Compute-in-Memory (CiM) architectures address this…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xinzhao Li , Alptekin Vardar , Franz Müller , Navya Goli , Umamaheswara Rao Tida , Kai Ni , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Thomas Kämpfe , Ruiyang Qin

The present manuscript deals with the realization of Processing In-memory (PIM) computing architecture using Quantum Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) and Akers array. The PIM computing architecture becomes popular due to its effective framework…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-10-03 P. P. Chougule , B. Sen , T. D. Dongale

Binary neural networks (BNNs) that use 1-bit weights and activations have garnered interest as extreme quantization provides low power dissipation. By implementing BNNs as computing-in-memory (CIM), which computes multiplication and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Minh-Son Le , Thi-Nhan Pham , Thanh-Dat Nguyen , Ik-Joon Chang

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