CRAFFT: High resolution FFT accelerator in spintronic computational RAM

Husrev Cilasun, Salonik Resch, Zamshed Iqbal Chowdhury, Erin Olson, Masoud Zabihi, Zhengyang Zhao, Thomas Peterson, Jian Ping Wang, Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Ulya Karpuzcu

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Abstract

High resolution Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is important for various applications while increased memory access and parallelism requirement limits the traditional hardware. In this work, we explore acceleration opportunities for high resolution FFTs in spintronic computational RAM (CRAM) which supports true in-memory processing semantics. We experiment with Spin-Torque-Transfer (STT) and Spin-Hall-Effect (SHE) based CRAMs in implementing CRAFFT, a high resolution FFT accelerator in memory. For one million point fixed-point FFT, we demonstrate that CRAFFT can provide up to 2.57× speedup and 673× energy reduction. We also provide a proof-of-concept extension to floating-point FFT.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2020 57th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781450367257
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2020
Event57th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2020 - Virtual, San Francisco, United States
Duration: Jul 20 2020Jul 24 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings - Design Automation Conference
Volume2020-July
ISSN (Print)0738-100X

Conference

Conference57th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, San Francisco
Period7/20/207/24/20

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Acknowledgment ‘is work was supported in part by NSF grant no. SPX[17]-1725420.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.

Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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