An Aging Detection and Tolerance Framework for 8T SRAM Dot Product CIM Engine

Yu Guang Chen; Chi Hsu Wang; Ing Chao Lin

doi:10.1109/ISOCC56007.2022.10031538

An Aging Detection and Tolerance Framework for 8T SRAM Dot Product CIM Engine

Yu Guang Chen, Chi Hsu Wang, Ing Chao Lin

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering

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Abstract

Computing In-Memory (CIM), which directly performs in-situ operations at memory, is one of the promising solutions to overcome von Neumann bottleneck. Previous researchers have proposed an 8T-SRAM-based CIM structure to perform dot product (DP) computations by analog charging/discharging operations. However, CIM structure may suffer from variations and aging effects such as BTI and HCI, which threat the reliability of CIM operation results. In this paper, we propose an agingaware CIM operation framework which consists of an aging detection method and an aging tolerance technique. Specifically, we apply Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) on affected CIM structure to compensate the current drop due to variations and aging effects. Experimental results show that our method can successfully calibrate dropped current and thus maintain the reliability of CIM operations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - International SoC Design Conference 2022, ISOCC 2022
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	161-162
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665459716
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISOCC56007.2022.10031538
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	19th International System-on-Chip Design Conference, ISOCC 2022 - Gangneung-si, Korea, Republic of Duration: 2022 Oct 19 → 2022 Oct 22

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Name	Proceedings - International SoC Design Conference 2022, ISOCC 2022

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Conference	19th International System-on-Chip Design Conference, ISOCC 2022
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Gangneung-si
Period	22-10-19 → 22-10-22

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Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science Applications
Hardware and Architecture
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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Chen, Y. G., Wang, C. H., & Lin, I. C. (2022). An Aging Detection and Tolerance Framework for 8T SRAM Dot Product CIM Engine. In Proceedings - International SoC Design Conference 2022, ISOCC 2022 (pp. 161-162). (Proceedings - International SoC Design Conference 2022, ISOCC 2022). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISOCC56007.2022.10031538

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Chen, YG, Wang, CH & Lin, IC 2022, An Aging Detection and Tolerance Framework for 8T SRAM Dot Product CIM Engine. in Proceedings - International SoC Design Conference 2022, ISOCC 2022. Proceedings - International SoC Design Conference 2022, ISOCC 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 161-162, 19th International System-on-Chip Design Conference, ISOCC 2022, Gangneung-si, Korea, Republic of, 22-10-19. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISOCC56007.2022.10031538

An Aging Detection and Tolerance Framework for 8T SRAM Dot Product CIM Engine. / Chen, Yu Guang; Wang, Chi Hsu; Lin, Ing Chao.
Proceedings - International SoC Design Conference 2022, ISOCC 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. p. 161-162 (Proceedings - International SoC Design Conference 2022, ISOCC 2022).

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