SAC: An ultra-efficient spin-based architecture for compressed DNNs

Y Zhao, S Ma, H Liu, L Huang, Y Dai - ACM Transactions on Architecture …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved great progress in academia and industry. But
they have become computational and memory intensive with the increase of network depth …

Xbar-partitioning: a practical way for parasitics and noise tolerance in analog imc circuits

MH Amin, ME Elbtity, R Zand - IEEE Journal on Emerging and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional in-memory computing (IMC) architectures consist of analog memristive
crossbars to accelerate matrix-vector multiplication (MVM), and digital functional units to …

Full-analog implementation of activation function based on phase-change memory for artificial neural networks

Z Chen, X Li, X Zhu, H Liu, H Tong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have recently made a significant impact on the field of
industrial electronics. Increasing efforts have been focused on implementing ANN using …

Heterogeneous integration of in-memory analog computing architectures with tensor processing units

ME Elbtity, B Reidy, MH Amin, R Zand - Proceedings of the Great Lakes …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Tensor processing units (TPUs), specialized hardware accelerators for machine learning
tasks, have shown significant performance improvements when executing convolutional …

Computing with magnetic tunnel junction based sigmoidal activation functions

Y Bao, S Yang, Z Yao, H Yang - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Nonlinear activation functions play a crucial role in artificial neural networks. However,
digital implementations of sigmoidal functions, the commonly used activation functions, are …

IMAC-Sim: A Circuit-level Simulator For In-Memory Analog Computing Architectures

MH Amin, ME Elbtity, R Zand - … of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With the increased attention to memristive-based in-memory analog computing (IMAC)
architectures as an alternative for energy-hungry computer systems for machine learning …

Energy efficient spin-based implementation of neuromorphic functions in CNNs

S Soni, G Verma, H Nehete… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) offer potentially a better accuracy alternative for
conventional deep learning tasks. The hardware implementation of CNN functionalities with …

XbarSim: A Decomposition-Based Memristive Crossbar Simulator

A Kolinko, MH Amin, R Zand, J Bakos - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.19993, 2024 - arxiv.org
Given the growing focus on memristive crossbar-based in-memory computing (IMC)
architectures as a potential alternative to current energy-hungry machine learning hardware …

Magnetic-Based Integrated Sensing and In/Near-Sensor Processing: A Comprehensive Survey and Future Outlook

S Tabrizchi, MH Amin, D Najafi, S Angizi, R Zand… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
In recent years, spintronic devices and non-Von Neuman architectures have emerged as
two promising approaches to overcome the power, performance, and efficiency limitations of …

Spin orbit magnetic random access memory based binary CNN in-memory accelerator (BIMA) with sense amplifier

K Kalaichelvi, M Sundaram… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2024 - content.iospress.com
The research tends to suggest a spin-orbit torque magnetic random access memory (SOT-
MRAM)-based Binary CNN In-Memory Accelerator (BIMA) to minimize power utilization and …