Abstract

The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have demonstrated great success in various applications, such as cloud computing, deep learning, and neural networks, among others. However, the majority of these applications rely on fast computation and large storage, which poses significant challenges to the hardware platform. Thus, there is a growing interest in exploring new computation architectures to address these challenges. Compute-in-memory (CIM) has emerged as a promising solution to overcome the challenges posed by traditional computer architecture in terms of data transfer frequency and energy consumption. Non-volatile memory, such as Quantum-dot transistors, has been widely used in CIM to provide high-speed processing, low power consumption, and large storage capacity. Matrix-vector multiplication (MVM) or dot product operation is a primary computational kernel in neural networks. CIM offers an effective way to optimize the performance of the dot product operation by performing it through an intertwining of processing and memory elements. In this paper, we present a novel design and analysis of a Quantum-dot transistor (QDT) based CIM that offers efficient MVM or dot product operation by performing computations inside the memory array itself. Our proposed approach offers energy-efficient and high-speed data processing capabilities that are critical for implementing AI applications on resource-limited platforms such as portable devices.

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