CIM-based Robust Logic Accelerator using 28 nm STT-MRAM Characterization Chip Tape-out

CIM-based Robust Logic Accelerator using 28 nm STT-MRAM Characterization Chip Tape-out

Singh, A. (TU Delft Computer Engineering)
Zahedi, M.Z. (TU Delft Computer Engineering)
Shahroodi, Taha (TU Delft Computer Engineering)
Gupta, Mohit (IMEC-Solliance)
Gebregiorgis, A.B. (TU Delft Computer Engineering)
Komalan, Manu (IMEC-Solliance)
Joshi, R.V. (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre)
Catthoor, Francky (IMEC-Solliance)
Bishnoi, R.K. (TU Delft Computer Engineering)
Hamdioui, S. (TU Delft Quantum & Computer Engineering)

Quantum & Computer Engineering

2022

Spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) based computation-in-memory (CIM) architectures have shown great prospects for an energy-efficient computing. However, device variations and non-idealities narrow down the sensing margin that severely impacts the computing accuracy. In this work, we propose an adaptive referencing mechanism to improve the sensing margin of a CIM architecture for boolean binary logic (BBL) operations. We generate reference signals using multiple STT-MRAM devices and place them strategically into the array such that these signals can address the variations and trace the wire parasitics effectively. We have demonstrated this behavior using an STT-MRAM model, which is calibrated using 1Mbit characterized array. Results show that our proposed architecture for binary neural networks (BNN) achieves up to 17.8 TOPS/W on the MNIST dataset and 130× performance improvement for the text encryption compared to the software implementation on Intel Haswell processor.

binary logic
binary neural networks
computation-in-memory
STT-MRAM

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2b7dd922-94ff-48e6-869c-f757d1fc56d3

https://doi.org/10.1109/AICAS54282.2022.9869993

IEEE

2023-07-01

9781665409964

Proceeding - IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems, AICAS 2022

4th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems, AICAS 2022, 2022-06-13 → 2022-06-15, Incheon, Korea, Republic of

Proceeding - IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems, AICAS 2022

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© 2022 A. Singh, M.Z. Zahedi, Taha Shahroodi, Mohit Gupta, A.B. Gebregiorgis, Manu Komalan, R.V. Joshi, Francky Catthoor, R.K. Bishnoi, S. Hamdioui