Publications de Marco Antonio Rios

EdgeAI-Aware Design of In-Memory Computing Architectures

Driven by the demand for real-time processing and the need to minimize latency in AI algorithms, edge computing has experienced remarkable progress. Decision-making AI applications stand out for their heavy reliance on data-centric operations, predominantl ...

EPFL2024

Bit-Line Computing for CNN Accelerators Co-Design in Edge AI Inference

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Flavio Ponzina, Marco Antonio Rios

By supporting the access of multiple memory words at the same time, Bit-line Computing (BC) architectures allow the parallel execution of bit-wise operations in-memory. At the array periphery, arithmetic operations are then derived with little additional o ...

2023

Overflow-free compute memories for edge AI acceleration

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Flavio Ponzina, Marco Antonio Rios

Compute memories are memory arrays augmented with dedicated logic to support arithmetic. They support the efficient execution of data-centric computing patterns, such as those characterizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. These architectures can ...

2023

Overflow-free Compute Memories for Edge AI Acceleration

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Flavio Ponzina, Marco Antonio Rios

Compute memories are memory arrays augmented with dedicated logic to support arithmetic. They support the efficient execution of data-centric computing patterns, such as those characterizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. These architectures can ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

A 16-bit Floating-Point Near-SRAM Architecture for Low-power Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Marco Antonio Rios, Grégoire Axel Eggermann

State-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, such as graph neural networks and recommendation systems, require floating-point computation of very large matrix multiplications over sparse data. Their execution in resource-constrained scenarios, ...

New York2023

Error Resilient In-Memory Computing Architecture for CNN Inference on the Edge

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Flavio Ponzina, Marco Antonio Rios

The growing popularity of edge computing has fostered the development of diverse solutions to support Artificial Intelligence (AI) in energy-constrained devices. Nonetheless, comparatively few efforts have focused on the resiliency exhibited by AI workload ...

2022

A hardware/software co-design vision for deep learning at the edge

David Atienza Alonso, Benoît Walter Denkinger, Giovanni Ansaloni, Miguel Peon Quiros, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Flavio Ponzina, Marco Antonio Rios, Simone Machetti

The growing popularity of edgeAI requires novel solutions to support the deployment of compute-intense algorithms in embedded devices. In this article, we advocate for a holistic approach, where application-level transformations are jointly conceived with ...

2022

A Flexible In-Memory Computing Architecture for Heterogeneously Quantized CNNs

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Flavio Ponzina, Marco Antonio Rios

Inferences using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are resource and energy intensive. Therefore, their execution on highly constrained edge devices demands the careful co-optimization of algorithms and hardware. Addressing this challenge, in this paper ...

2021

Associativity-agnostic in-cache computing memory architecture optimized for multiplication

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios

A random access memory array including a plurality of local memory group ways, each local memory group way including, a plurality of local memory groups, each local memory group including, a memory column including a plurality of memory cells, a pair of lo ...

2021

Running Efficiently CNNs on the Edge Thanks to Hybrid SRAM-RRAM In-Memory Computing

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Flavio Ponzina, Marco Antonio Rios

The increasing size of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and the high computational workload required for inference pose major challenges for their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. In this paper, we address them by proposing a novel In-M ...

IEEE2021

Memory chip or memory array for wide-voltage range in-memory computing using bitline technology

David Atienza Alonso, William Andrew Simon, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios

A random access memory having a memory array having a plurality of local memory groups, each local memory group including a plurality of bitcells arranged in a bitcell column, a pair of local bitlines operatively connected to the plurality of bitcells, a p ...

2021

Blade: An in-Cache Computing Architecture for Edge Devices

David Atienza Alonso, William Andrew Simon, Marina Zapater Sancho, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios

Area and power constrained edge devices are increasingly utilized to perform compute intensive workloads, necessitating increasingly area and power efficient accelerators. In this context, in-SRAM computing performs hundreds of parallel operations on spati ...

2020

Exploration Methodology for BTI-Induced Failures on RRAM-Based Edge AI Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Miguel Peon Quiros, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios

Resistive switching memory technologies (RRAM) are seen by most of the scientific community as an enabler for Edge-level applications such as embedded deep Learning, AI or signal processing of audio and video signals. However, going beyond a "simple'' repl ...

IEEE2020

Write Termination circuits for RRAM : A Holistic Approach From Technology to Application Considerations

David Atienza Alonso, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios

While Resistive Random Access Memories (RRAM) are perceived nowadays as a promising solution for the future of computing, these technologies suffer from intrinsic variability regarding programming voltage, switching speed and achieved resistance values. Wr ...

IEEE2020

RRAM-VAC: A Variability-Aware Controller for RRAM-based Memory Architectures

David Atienza Alonso, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios, Shikhar Tuli

The growing need for connected, smart and energy efficient devices requires them to provide both ultra-low standby power and relatively high computing capabilities when awoken. In this context, emerging resistive memory technologies (RRAM) appear as a prom ...

2020

An Associativity-Agnostic in-Cache Computing Architecture Optimized for Multiplication

David Atienza Alonso, William Andrew Simon, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios

With the spread of cloud services and Internet of Things concept, there is a popularization of machine learning and artificial intelligence based analytics in our everyday life. However, an efficient deployment of these data-intensive services requires per ...

2019

Functionality Enhanced Memories for Edge-AI Embedded Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, William Andrew Simon, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios

With the surge in complexity of edge workloads, it appeared in the scientific community that such workloads cannot be anymore overflown to the cloud due to the huge edge device to server communication energy cost and the high energy consumption induced in ...

IEEE2019