Energy and area-efficient mixed-signal-based SRAM computation-in-memory for AI edge devices

The Ph.D. dissertation focuses on mixed-signal-based SRAM computation-in-memory (CIM) for artificial intelligence (AI) edge devices. CIM is an emerging approach that integrates computation capabilities into memory units, reducing data movement and enhancing performance for memory-intensive tasks lik...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jo, Yongjun
Other Authors: Kim Tae Hyoung
Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/181603
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
Description
Summary:The Ph.D. dissertation focuses on mixed-signal-based SRAM computation-in-memory (CIM) for artificial intelligence (AI) edge devices. CIM is an emerging approach that integrates computation capabilities into memory units, reducing data movement and enhancing performance for memory-intensive tasks like deep neural networks (DNNs). CIM mainly deals with multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations which consist most of the computing burden in DNN. Additionally, mixed-signal-based CIM has many advantages over digital-based CIM in terms of area, throughput, and power in low-precision DNN (1-4b) as able to accumulate multiplication results at once with analog domain (voltage, current and charge, etc.) Therefore, mixed-signal-based CIM is an attractive option as low-precision DNNs have achieved competitive precision so far.