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A Case for Optical Deep Neural Networks

A Case for Optical Deep Neural Networks

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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Optical Random Access Memory

Optical Random Access Memory

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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