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An analog neural network computing engine based on CMOS-compatible charge-trap transistor (CTT) is proposed in this paper. CTT devices are used as analog multipliers. Compared to digital multipliers, CTT-based analog multiplier shows…

A switched-capacitor matrix multiplier is presented for approximate computing and machine learning applications. The multiply-and-accumulate operations perform discrete-time charge-domain signal processing using passive switches and 300 aF…

The concept of capacitive coupling between sensors and readout chips is under study for the vertex detector at the proposed high-energy CLIC electron positron collider. The CLICpix Capacitively Coupled Pixel Detector (C3PD) is an active…

The need to repeatedly shuttle around synaptic weight values from memory to processing units has been a key source of energy inefficiency associated with hardware implementation of artificial neural networks. Analog in-memory computing…

State-of-the-art in-memory computation has recently emerged as the most promising solution to overcome design challenges related to data movement inside current computing systems. One of the approaches to performing in-memory computation is…

Recently we have shown that an architecture based on resistive processing unit (RPU) devices has potential to achieve significant acceleration in deep neural network (DNN) training compared to today's software-based DNN implementations…

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved excellent performance on various tasks, but deploying CNN to edge is constrained by the high energy consumption of convolution operation. Stochastic computing (SC) is an attractive paradigm…

Transprecision computing (TC) is a promising approach for energy-efficient machine learning (ML) computation on resource-constrained platforms. This work presents a novel ASIC design of a Transprecision Arithmetic and Logic Unit (TALU) that…

In this paper, we develop an in-memory analog computing (IMAC) architecture realizing both synaptic behavior and activation functions within non-volatile memory arrays. Spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (SOT-MRAM)…

In recent decades, High Performance Computing (HPC) has undergone significant enhancements, particularly in the realm of hardware platforms, aimed at delivering increased processing power while keeping power consumption within reasonable…

Matrix computation is ubiquitous in modern scientific and engineering fields. Due to the high computational complexity in conventional digital computers, matrix computation represents a heavy workload in many data-intensive applications,…

With the rapid advent of generative models, efficiently deploying these models on specialized hardware has become critical. Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are designed to accelerate AI workloads, but their high power consumption…

Analog In-Memory Computing (AIMC) is an emerging technology for fast and energy-efficient Deep Learning (DL) inference. However, a certain amount of digital post-processing is required to deal with circuit mismatches and non-idealities…

Images typically are represented as uniformly sampled data in the form of matrix of pixels/voxels. Therefore, matrix multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) forms the core of most state-of-the-art image analysis algorithms. While digital…

The success of the exascale supercomputer is largely debated to remain dependent on novel breakthroughs in technology that effectively reduce the power consumption and thermal dissipation requirements. In this work, we consider the…

The FFT of three-dimensional (3D) input data is an important computational kernel of numerical simulations and is widely used in High Performance Computing (HPC) codes running on a large number of processors. Performance of many scientific…

Tensor processing units (TPUs), specialized hardware accelerators for machine learning tasks, have shown significant performance improvements when executing convolutional layers in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, they…

In this work, we introduce an area- and energy-efficient multiply-accumulate (MAC) unit, named Jack unit, that is a jack-of-all-trades, supporting various data formats such as integer (INT), floating point (FP), and microscaling data format…

The increasing computational demand of AI workloads has intensified the need for energy-efficient in-memory and near-memory computing architectures, particularly because data movement often consumes significantly more energy than…

The rapid adoption of low-precision arithmetic in artificial intelligence and edge computing has created a strong demand for energy-efficient and flexible floating-point multiply-accumulate (MAC) units. This paper presents a dual-precision…