A review of emerging trends in photonic deep learning accelerators

M Atwany, S Pardo, S Serunjogi, M Rasras - Frontiers in Physics, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Deep learning has revolutionized many sectors of industry and daily life, but as application
scale increases, performing training and inference with large models on massive datasets is …

SPACX: Silicon photonics-based scalable chiplet accelerator for DNN inference

Y Li, A Louri, A Karanth - 2022 IEEE International Symposium …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In pursuit of higher inference accuracy, deep neural network (DNN) models have
significantly increased in complexity and size. To overcome the consequent computational …

SPRINT: A high-performance, energy-efficient, and scalable chiplet-based accelerator with photonic interconnects for CNN inference

Y Li, A Louri, A Karanth - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Chiplet-based convolution neural network (CNN) accelerators have emerged as a promising
solution to provide substantial processing power and on-chip memory capacity for CNN …

Ascend: A scalable and energy-efficient deep neural network accelerator with photonic interconnects

Y Li, K Wang, H Zheng, A Louri… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The complexity and size of recent deep neural network (DNN) models have increased
significantly in pursuit of high inference accuracy. Chiplet-based accelerator is considered a …

PACT: An extensible parallel thermal simulator for emerging integration and cooling technologies

Z Yuan, P Shukla, S Chetoui… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thermal analysis is an essential step that enables co-design of the computing system (ie,
integrated circuits and computer architectures) with the cooling system (eg, heat sink) …

Machine learning accelerators in 2.5 D chiplet platforms with silicon photonics

F Sunny, E Taheri, M Nikdast… - … Design, Automation & …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Domain-specific machine learning (ML) accelerators such as Google's TPU and Apple's
Neural Engine now dominate CPUs and GPUs for energy-efficient ML processing. However …

ReSiPI: A reconfigurable silicon-photonic 2.5 D chiplet network with PCMs for energy-efficient interposer communication

E Taheri, S Pasricha, M Nikdast - Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
2.5 D chiplet systems have been proposed to improve the low manufacturing yield of large-
scale chips. However, connecting the chiplets through an electronic interposer imposes a …

Swint: A non-blocking switch-based silicon photonic interposer network for 2.5 d machine learning accelerators

E Taheri, MA Mahdian, S Pasricha… - IEEE Journal on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The surging demand for machine learning (ML) applications has emphasized the pressing
need for efficient ML accelerators capable of addressing the computational and energy …

TRINE: A Tree-Based Silicon Photonic Interposer Network for Energy-Efficient 2.5 D Machine Learning Acceleration

E Taheri, MA Mahdian, S Pasricha… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
2.5 D chiplet systems have showcased low manufacturing costs and modular designs for
machine learning (ML) acceleration. Nevertheless, communication challenges arise from …

Architecting optically controlled phase change memory

A Narayan, Y Thonnart, P Vivet, A Coskun… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Phase Change Memory (PCM) is an attractive candidate for main memory, as it offers non-
volatility and zero leakage power while providing higher cell densities, longer data retention …