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Analog-to-Digital Converter Design Exploration for Compute-in-Memory Accelerators

Hongwu Jiang, Wantong Li, Shanshi Huang, Stefan Cosemans, Francky Catthoor, Shimeng Yu

2021IEEE Design and Test65 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

This article comprehensively investigates analog-to-digital converter (ADC) design for compute-in-memory array. The authors show that 6-bit ADC precision is sufficient to guarantee no loss of accuracy for large arrays, while achieving the best tradeoff between hardware performance and area overhead, compared to prior state-of-the-art designs.

Topics & Concepts

Computer scienceSuccessive approximation ADCAnalog-to-digital converterOverhead (engineering)Digital-to-analog converterState (computer science)Computer hardwareElectronic engineeringElectrical engineeringEngineeringAlgorithmCapacitorVoltageOperating systemAdvanced Memory and Neural ComputingAnalog and Mixed-Signal Circuit DesignCCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors