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CLUT-CIM: A Capacitance Lookup Table-Based Analog Compute-in-Memory Macro With Signed-Channel Training and Weight Updating for Nonuniform Quantization
Fu, Yuzhao; Li, Jixuan; Yu, Wei Han; Un, Ka Fai; Chan, Chi Hang; Zhu, Yan; Martins, Rui P.; Mak, Pui In
2024
Source PublicationIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
ISSN1549-8328
Abstract

Compute-in-memory (CIM) is a promising approach for realizing energy-efficient deep neural network (DNN) accelerators. Previous CIM works focusing on uniform quantization (UQ) demonstrated a higher Multiply-accumulate (MAC) precision requirement to maintain DNN inferencing accuracy, resulting lower energy efficiency. The nonuniform quantization (NUQ) has proved to require lower precision than UQ, while the existing implementations are based on high precision digital lookup table (LUT) (e.g., 16-bit), leading to large energy and area overhead for multiplier. This work presents CLUT-CIM fabricated under 28-nm CMOS featuring: 1) a capacitance LUT (CLUT)-based NUQ MAC circuit with thermometer coding scheme for weight and input activation that avoids digital LUT and reduces the energy and area overhead; 2) a signed-channel training (SCT) method that reduces the switching activity of computation to improve the energy efficiency; 3) a dual-port 6T-SRAM array to enable simultaneously weight updating and CIM operations, enhancing the memory utilization and CIM throughput. Under 3-bit NUQ precision, the peak energy efficiency is 114.3 TOPS/W, and peak throughput density is 31.78 TOPS/mm $^{2}$ .

KeywordCapacitance Lookup Table (Clut) Circuits Common Information Model (Computing) Compute-in-memory (Cim) Energy Efficiency High Energy Efficiency In-memory Computing Indexes Nonuniform Quantization (Nuq) Table Lookup Thermometers Weight Updating
DOI10.1109/TCSI.2024.3412151
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Indexed BySCIE
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaEngineering
WOS SubjectEngineering, Electrical & Electronic
WOS IDWOS:001252491800001
PublisherIEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 445 HOES LANE, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08855-4141
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85196738376
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CollectionFaculty of Science and Technology
THE STATE KEY LABORATORY OF INTERNET OF THINGS FOR SMART CITY (UNIVERSITY OF MACAU)
INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Corresponding AuthorYu, Wei Han
Affiliationthe Faculty of Science and Technology, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, the Institute of Microelectronics, University of Macau, Macau, China
First Author AffilicationFaculty of Science and Technology
Corresponding Author AffilicationFaculty of Science and Technology
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Fu, Yuzhao,Li, Jixuan,Yu, Wei Han,et al. CLUT-CIM: A Capacitance Lookup Table-Based Analog Compute-in-Memory Macro With Signed-Channel Training and Weight Updating for Nonuniform Quantization[J]. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 2024.
APA Fu, Yuzhao., Li, Jixuan., Yu, Wei Han., Un, Ka Fai., Chan, Chi Hang., Zhu, Yan., Martins, Rui P.., & Mak, Pui In (2024). CLUT-CIM: A Capacitance Lookup Table-Based Analog Compute-in-Memory Macro With Signed-Channel Training and Weight Updating for Nonuniform Quantization. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers.
MLA Fu, Yuzhao,et al."CLUT-CIM: A Capacitance Lookup Table-Based Analog Compute-in-Memory Macro With Signed-Channel Training and Weight Updating for Nonuniform Quantization".IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (2024).
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