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    Michele Caselli Headshot
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    Michele Caselli
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    Università degli Studi di Parma
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    Michele Caselli
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    Università degli Studi di Parma
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    IMEC
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    Arindam Mallik
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    IMEC
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    Peter Debacker
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    IMEC
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    Diederik Verkest
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    IMEC
    Abstract

    This paper presents a tiny charge injection-Successive Approximation A/D converter to be integrated at the periphery of analog Matrix Vector Multiplication accelerators for Deep Neural Network inference. Derived from the ci-SAR ADC, this converter exploits a single charge injecting cell to minimize area and energy consumption. The ADC exhibits a signal-to-noise and distortion ratio of 30.5 dB, at 5 bits of nominal resolution. The energy per conversion is 86fJ, running at 34 MS/s, with a silicon area of 75um2, in 22 nm technology node. From the results of our analytical framework, an SRAM-based Analog in-Memory Compute array, including the proposed ADC at 5 bits of resolution, can achieve an energy efficiency of 1650 TOPs/W.

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    • Tiny ci-SAR A/D Converter for Deep Neural Networks in Analog In-Memory Computation (application/pdf)