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    Author(s)
    Display Name
    Seongyon Hong
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Display Name
    Soyeon Um
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Display Name
    Sangjin Kim
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Display Name
    Sangyeob Kim
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Display Name
    Wooyoung Jo
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Display Name
    Hoi-Jun Yoo
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Abstract

    This work proposes an energy-efficient and highly-accurate multi-bit input-parallel CIM processor with four key features: 1) a 10T2C signed magnitude cell with voltage-capacitance-ratio (VCR) decoding for multi-level inputs with only 2-level supply voltages, 2) a computation word line (CWL) charge reuse method for input driver power reduction, 3) a signal-amplifying noise canceling voltage-to-time converter (SANC-VTC) for SNR improvement, and 4) a distribution-aware time-to-digital converter (DA-TDC) for ADC power reduction. As a result, it achieves 4.85 mW power consumption and 332 TOPS/W energy efficiency with 72.43% benchmark accuracy.