CAM-CIM: A Hybrid Compute-in-Memory Using Content-Addressable Memory with Subword Split Mapping for Reduced ADC Resolution
Jung, Sangwoo
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Lee, Hojin
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Lee, Yejin
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Park, Jiyong
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Park, Dahoon
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Shin, Hyunseob
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Yoon, Jong-Hyeok
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Kung, Jaeha
Recently, compute-in-memory (CIM) has become a promising architecture for data-intensive applications such as deep learning. However, analog or digital CIM (ACIM or DCIM) faces some design challenges. ACIMs inherently have non-idealities, which lead to significant accuracy degradation. In addition, a substantial amount of power is consumed by analog-to-digital converters (ADC). On the other hand, DCIMs show an exponential increase in power consumption and computing cycles as the operand bit-widt