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Akhilesh Jaiswal

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preprint2026arXiv

OptiLookUp: An Optical ROM-Based Loop up Table Engine for Photonic Accelerators

Read-only memory (ROM) provides deterministic access to predefined data mappings. Extending ROM concepts to the optical domain enables high-bandwidth, low-latency, and parallel memory access, but realizing compact and reconfigurable optical ROM remains challenging due to loss, wavelength control, and integration constraints. This work presents a high-speed, reconfigurable photonic ROM architecture implemented using integrated microring resonators (MRRs). The ROM encodes predefined input-output mappings directly in the spectral response of the photonic devices, enabling deterministic lookup-based operation without dynamic computation during readout. To improve scalability and reduce cumulative insertion loss, the architecture employs compact banked sub-arrays that are selectively addressed through an optical decoding mechanism. Reconfigurability is achieved using transistor-based optical selectors, allowing different ROM banks to be activated without physical light rerouting or interferometric structures. The proposed photonic ROM is designed and evaluated using device-level simulations based on the GlobalFoundries 45SPCLO silicon photonics platform. Simulation results demonstrate reliable operation at data rates up to 12.5 GHz, with stable light-to-current transfer characteristics obtained through integrated photodiode readout. The optical ROM can be used to implement nonlinear activation functions utilised in photonic accelerator architectures, including sigmoid, tanh, ReLU, and exponential mappings.

preprint2022arXiv

CryoCiM: Cryogenic Compute-in-Memory based on the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect

The scaling of the already-matured CMOS technology is steadily approaching its physical limit, motivating the quest for a suitable alternative. Cryogenic operation offers a promising pathway towards continued improvement in computing speed and energy efficiency without aggressive scaling. However, the memory wall bottleneck of the traditional von-Neumann architecture persists even at cryogenic temperature. That is where a compute-in-memory (CiM) architecture, that embeds computing within the memory unit, comes into play. Computations within the memory unit help reduce the expensive data transfer between the memory and the computing units. Therefore, CiM provides extreme energy efficiency that can enable lower cooling cost at cryogenic temperature. In this work, we demonstrate CryoCiM, a cryogenic compute-in-memory framework utilizing a non-volatile memory system based on the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE). Our design can perform memory read/write, and universal binary logic operations (NAND, NOR, and XOR). We design a novel peripheral circuit assembly that can perform the read/write, and single-cycle in-memory logic operations. The utilization of a QAHE-based memory system promises robustness against process variations, through the usage of topologically protected resistive states for data storage. CryoCiM is the first step towards utilizing exclusively cryogenic phenomena to serve the dual purpose of storage and computation with ultra-low power (nano-watts) operations.

preprint2022arXiv

IRIS: Integrated Retinal Functionality in Image Sensors

Neuromorphic image sensors draw inspiration from the biological retina to implement visual computations in electronic hardware. Gain control in phototransduction and temporal differentiation at the first retinal synapse inspired the first generation of neuromorphic sensors, but processing in downstream retinal circuits, much of which has been discovered in the past decade, has not been implemented in image sensor technology. We present a technology-circuit co-design solution that implements two motion computations occurring at the output of the retina that could have wide applications for vision based decision making in dynamic environments. Our simulations on Globalfoundries 22nm technology node show that, by taking advantage of the recent advances in semiconductor chip stacking technology, the proposed retina-inspired circuits can be fabricated on image sensing platforms in existing semiconductor foundries. Integrated Retinal Functionality in Image Sensors (IRIS) technology could drive advances in machine vision applications that demand robust, high-speed, energy-efficient and low-bandwidth real-time decision making.

preprint2022arXiv

Performance Modeling Sparse MTTKRP Using Optical Static Random Access Memory on FPGA

Electrical static random memory (E-SRAM) is the current standard for internal static memory in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Despite the dramatic improvement in E-SRAM technology over the past decade, the goal of ultra-fast, energy-efficient static random memory has yet to be achieved with E-SRAM technology. However, preliminary research into optical static random access memory (O-SRAM) has shown promising results in creating energy-efficient ultra-fast static memories. This paper investigates the advantage of O-SRAM over E-SRAM in access speed and energy performance while executing sparse Matricized Tensor Times Khatri-Rao Product (spMTTKRP). spMTTKRP is an essential component of tensor decomposition algorithms which is heavily used in data science applications. The evaluation results show O-SRAMs can achieve speeds of 1.1x - 2.9x while saving 2.8x - 8.1x energy compared to conventional E-SRAM technology.

preprint2020arXiv

IMAC: In-memory multi-bit Multiplication andACcumulation in 6T SRAM Array

`In-memory computing' is being widely explored as a novel computing paradigm to mitigate the well known memory bottleneck. This emerging paradigm aims at embedding some aspects of computations inside the memory array, thereby avoiding frequent and expensive movement of data between the compute unit and the storage memory. In-memory computing with respect to Silicon memories has been widely explored on various memory bit-cells. Embedding computation inside the 6 transistor (6T) SRAM array is of special interest since it is the most widely used on-chip memory. In this paper, we present a novel in-memory multiplication followed by accumulation operation capable of performing parallel dot products within 6T SRAM without any changes to the standard bitcell. We, further, study the effect of circuit non-idealities and process variations on the accuracy of the LeNet-5 and VGG neural network architectures against the MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets, respectively. The proposed in-memory dot-product mechanism achieves 88.8% and 99% accuracy for the CIFAR-10 and MNIST, respectively. Compared to the standard von Neumann system, the proposed system is 6.24x better in energy consumption and 9.42x better in delay.