3 papers
cs.AR2025
FAMOUS: Flexible Accelerator for the Attention Mechanism of Transformer on UltraScale+ FPGAs
Ehsan Kabir, Md. Arafat Kabir, Austin R. J. Downey +3
Transformer neural networks (TNNs) are being applied across a widening range of application domains, including natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and computer…
cs.AR2024
The BRAM is the Limit: Shattering Myths, Shaping Standards, and Building Scalable PIM Accelerators
MD Arafat Kabir, Tendayi Kamucheka, Nathaniel Fredricks +4
Many recent FPGA-based Processor-in-Memory (PIM) architectures have appeared with promises of impressive levels of parallelism but with performance that falls short of expectations…
cs.AR2024
IMAGine: An In-Memory Accelerated GEMV Engine Overlay
MD Arafat Kabir, Tendayi Kamucheka, Nathaniel Fredricks +4
Processor-in-Memory (PIM) overlays and new redesigned reconfigurable tile fabrics have been proposed to eliminate the von Neumann bottleneck and enable processing performance to sc…