{"title":"A 40nm Analog-Input ADC-Free Compute-in-Memory RRAM Macro with Pulse-Width Modulation between Sub-arrays","authors":"Hongwu Jiang, Wantong Li, Shanshi Huang, Shimeng Yu","doi":"10.1109/vlsitechnologyandcir46769.2022.9830211","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an ADC-free compute-in-memory (CIM) RRAM-based macro, exploiting the fully analog intra-/inter-array computation. The main contributions include: 1) a lightweight input-encoding scheme based on pulse-width modulation (PWM), which improves the compute throughput by ~7 times; 2) a fully analog data processing manner between sub-arrays without explicit ADCs, which does not introduce quantization loss and saves the power by a factor of 11.6. The 40nm prototype chip with TSMC RRAM achieves energy efficiency of 421.53 TOPS/W and compute efficiency of 360 GOPS/mm2 (normalized to binary operation) at 100MHz.","PeriodicalId":332454,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"16","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2022 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/vlsitechnologyandcir46769.2022.9830211","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper presents an ADC-free compute-in-memory (CIM) RRAM-based macro, exploiting the fully analog intra-/inter-array computation. The main contributions include: 1) a lightweight input-encoding scheme based on pulse-width modulation (PWM), which improves the compute throughput by ~7 times; 2) a fully analog data processing manner between sub-arrays without explicit ADCs, which does not introduce quantization loss and saves the power by a factor of 11.6. The 40nm prototype chip with TSMC RRAM achieves energy efficiency of 421.53 TOPS/W and compute efficiency of 360 GOPS/mm2 (normalized to binary operation) at 100MHz.