Publications de Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

LIONHEART: A Layer-based Mapping Framework for Heterogeneous Systems with Analog In-Memory Computing Tiles

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Giovanni Ansaloni, Irem Boybat Kara, Flavio Ponzina, Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein, Abu Sebastian

When arranged in a crossbar configuration, resistive memory devices can be used to execute Matrix-Vector Multiplications (MVMs), the most dominant operation of many Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, in constant time complexity. Nonetheless, when performing ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

Towards Accurate RISC-V Full System Simulation via Component-level Calibration

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Giovanni Ansaloni, Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

Full-System (FS) simulation is essential for performance evaluation of complete systems that execute complex applications on a complete software stack consisting of an operating system and user applications. Nevertheless, they require careful fine-tuning a ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2025

Which Coupled is Best Coupled? An Exploration of AIMC Tile Interfaces and Load Balancing for CNNs

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Irem Boybat Kara, Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

Due to stringent energy and performance constraints, edge AI computing often employs heterogeneous systems that utilize both general-purpose CPUs and accelerators. Analog in-memory computing (AIMC) is a well-known AI inference solution that overcomes compu ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2024

Exploring High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Architectures for Edge AI-Enabled Applications

Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

The desire and ability to place AI-enabled applications on the edge has grown significantly in recent years. However, the compute-, area-, and power-constrained nature of edge devices are stressed by the needs of the AI-enabled applications, due to a gener ...

EPFL2024

TiC-SAT: Tightly-coupled Systolic Accelerator for Transformers

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alireza Amirshahi, Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

Transformer models have achieved impressive results in various AI scenarios, ranging from vision to natural language processing. However, their computational complexity and their vast number of parameters hinder their implementations on resource-constraine ...

2023

System-Level Exploration of In-Package Wireless Communication for Multi-Chiplet Platforms

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Giovanni Ansaloni, Rafael Medina Morillas, Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

Multi-Chiplet architectures are being increasingly adopted to support the design of very large systems in a single package, facilitating the integration of heterogeneous components and improving manufacturing yield. However, chiplet-based solutions have to ...

2023

Full System Exploration of On-Chip Wireless Communication on Many-Core Architectures

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Giovanni Ansaloni, Rafael Medina Morillas, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi, Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

In order to develop sustainable and more powerful information technology (IT) infrastructures, the challenges posed by the "memory wall" are critical for the design of high-performance and high-efficiency many-core computing systems. In this context, recen ...

IEEE2022

ALPINE: Analog In-Memory Acceleration with Tight Processor Integration for Deep Learning

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi, Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

Analog in-memory computing (AIMC) cores offers significant performance and energy benefits for neural network inference with respect to digital logic (e.g., CPUs). AIMCs accelerate matrix-vector multiplications, which dominate these applications’ run-time. ...

2022