by Ananth Krishna Prasad and Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi on May 7, 2021 | Tags: Accelerators, Emerging Technology, Machine Learning, Optical
In a previous blog post, we summarized some advances in optical computing that enable the implementation of low-energy optical-convolutional layers using phase masks and angle-sensitive pixels. Such approaches also present multiple challenges, such as lack of...
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by Ananth Krishna Prasad and Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi on Oct 2, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Machine Learning, Optical
Deep Neural Networks have been a major focus for computer architects in the recent past due to the massive parallelism available in computation, combined with the massive amount of data re-use. While the proposed architectures have inspired industry innovations such...
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by Payman Behnam and Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi on Oct 11, 2019 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Memory, Optical
The memory wall has been a crucial power and performance bottleneck for computing systems. The growing gap between processor and memory speeds limits the energy-efficiency and performance of almost all forms of computing systems. As technology scales down, the speed...
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