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We present DFT-FE 1.0, building on DFT-FE 0.6 [Comput. Phys. Commun. 246, 106853 (2020)], to conduct fast and accurate large-scale density functional theory (DFT) calculations (reaching ~ $100,000$ electrons) on both many-core CPU and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Sambit Das , Phani Motamarri , Vishal Subramanian , David M. Rogers , Vikram Gavini

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is an essential tool in scientific and engineering computation. The increasing demand for mixed-precision FFT has made it possible to utilize half-precision floating-point (FP16) arithmetic for faster speed and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Binrui Li , Shenggan Cheng , James Lin

This paper focuses on developing energy-efficient online data processing strategy of wireless powered MEC systems under stochastic fading channels. In particular, we consider a hybrid access point (HAP) transmitting RF energy to and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Xian Li , Suzhi Bi , Yuan Zheng , Hui Wang

This paper proposes a novel approach that employs error amplification and ADC-based dual-mixer time-difference (ADC-based-DMTD) technique for high-precision locking of laser repetition frequency with compact size. This electronic system…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-17 Qibin Zheng , Zhengyi Tao , Lei Wang , Zhaohui Bu , Zuanming Jin , Zhao Wang

Large language models (LLMs), with their billions of parameters, pose substantial challenges for deployment on edge devices, straining both memory capacity and computational resources. Block Floating Point (BFP) quantisation reduces memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Xiaomeng Han , Yuan Cheng , Jing Wang , Junyang Lu , Hui Wang , X. x. Zhang , Ning Xu , Dawei Yang , Zhe Jiang

In this work, we propose SEE-MCAM, scalable and compact multi-bit CAM (MCAM) designs that utilize the three-terminal ferroelectric FET (FeFET) as the proxy. By exploiting the multi-level-cell characteristics of FeFETs, our proposed SEE-MCAM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shengxi Shou , Che-Kai Liu , Sanggeon Yun , Zishen Wan , Kai Ni , Mohsen Imani , X. Sharon Hu , Jianyi Yang , Cheng Zhuo , Xunzhao Yin

The widespread adoption of mixed-precision quantization in large language models (LLMs) has created demand for hardware that can efficiently perform multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations across mixed datatypes and switch datatypes at…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Feng Yu , Hongshi Tan , Yao Chen , Weng-Fai Wong , Bingsheng He

The rapid updates in error-resilient applications along with their quest for high throughput have motivated designing fast approximate functional units for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Studies that proposed imprecise functional…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Zahra Ebrahimi , Muhammad Zaid , Mark Wijtvliet , Akash Kumar

The continuous growth of big data applications with high computational and scalability demands has resulted in increasing popularity of cloud computing. Optimizing the performance and power consumption of cloud resources is therefore…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Sahand Salamat , Behnam Khaleghi , Mohsen Imani , Tajana Rosing

The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is one of the most widely used algorithms in high performance computing, with critical applications in spectral analysis for both signal processing and the numerical solution of partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Laslo Hunhold , John Gustafson

Multi-Head Attention (MHA) is a critical computational kernel in transformer-based AI models. Emerging scalable tile-based accelerator architectures integrate increasing numbers of tightly-packed processing elements (PEs) with tensor units.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chi Zhang , Luca Colagrande , Renzo Andri , Thomas Benz , Gamze Islamoglu , Alessandro Nadalini , Francesco Conti , Yawei Li , Luca Benini

While many hardware accelerators have recently been proposed to address the inefficiency problem of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes, none of them is able to deliver optimal performance when facing real-world FHE workloads…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Junxue Zhang , Xiaodian Cheng , Gang Cao , Meng Dai , Yijun Sun , Han Tian , Dian Shen , Yong Wang , Kai Chen

In this work, we propose a ferroelectric FET(FeFET) time-domain compute-in-memory (TD-CiM) array as a homogeneous processing fabric for binary multiplication-accumulation (MAC) and content addressable memory (CAM). We demonstrate that: i)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Xunzhao Yin , Qingrong Huang , Franz Müller , Shan Deng , Alptekin Vardar , Sourav De , Zhouhang Jiang , Mohsen Imani , Cheng Zhuo , Thomas Kämpfe , Kai Ni

This paper presents an accuracy-enhanced Hybrid Temporal Computing (E-HTC) framework for ultra-low-power hardware accelerators with deterministic additions. Inspired by the recently proposed HTC architecture, which leverages pulse-rate and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sachin Sachdeva , Jincong Lu , Wantong Li , Sheldon X. -D. Tan

The edge computing paradigm has emerged to handle cloud computing issues such as scalability, security and low response time among others. This new computing trend heavily relies on ubiquitous embedded systems on the edge. Performance and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Mohammad Hosseinabady , Mohd Amiruddin Bin Zainol , Jose Nunez-Yanez

In the field of digital signal processing, the fast Fourier transform (FFT) is a fundamental algorithm, with its processors being implemented using either the pipelined architecture, well-known for high-throughput applications but weak in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Fangyu Zhao , Chunhua Xiao , Zhiguo Wang , Xiaohua Du , Bo Dong

Modern hardware design trends have shifted towards specialized hardware acceleration for computationally intensive tasks like machine learning and computer vision. While these complex workloads can be accelerated by commercial GPUs,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Caleb Terrill , Fred Chu

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems serve the user equipments (UEs) by geographically distributed access points (APs) by means of joint transmission and reception. To limit the power consumption due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Shuaifei Chen , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Bo Ai

In recent years, DeepSeek has achieved strong inference performance but remains hard to deploy on energy-constrained edge devices. This paper presents the DeepSeek Processing Element (DSPE), an edge-oriented architecture that alleviates the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yuhan Zhang , Zhou Wang , Zhou Shu , Jiuren Zhou , Yanqing Xu , Xiaonan Tang , Shushan Qiao , Tianchun Ye , Yang Liu , Anil A. Bharath , Emm Mic Drakakis

Bitmap index is recognized as a promising candidate for online analytics processing systems, because it effectively supports not only parallel processing but also complex and multi-dimensional queries. However, bitmap index creation is a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Xuan-Thuan Nguyen , Trong-Thuc Hoang , Hong-Thu Nguyen , Katsumi Inoue , Cong-Kha Pham