Memristive Device Based Circuits for Computation-in-Memory Architectures

Muath Abu Lebdeh, Uljana Reinsalud, Hoang Anh Du Nguyen, Stephan Wong, Said Hamdioui
2019 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)  
Emerging computing applications (such as big-data and Internet-of-things) are extremely demanding in terms of storage, energy and computational efficiency, while todays architectures and device technologies are facing major challenges making them incapable to meet these demands. Computationin-Memory (CIM) architecture based on memristive devices is one of the alternative computing architectures being explored to address these limitations. Enabling such architectures relies on the development of
more » ... efficient memristive circuits being able to perform logic and arithmetic operations within the non-volatile memory core. This paper addresses memristive circuit designs for CIM architectures. It gives a complete overview of all designs, both for logic as well as arithmetic operations, and presents the most popular designs in details. In addition, it analyzes and classifies them, shows how they result in different CIM flavours and how these architectures distinguish themselves from traditional ones. The paper also presents different potential applications that could significantly benefit from CIM architectures, based on their kernel that could be accelerated.
doi:10.1109/iscas.2019.8702542 dblp:conf/iscas/LebdehRNWH19 fatcat:x5fjol3iyjfpzfqbpbtquxv4cy