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[Nature] A Flexible Digital Compute-In-Memory Chip For Edge Intelligence link

Nature

Anzhi Yan, Jianlan Yan, Penghui Shen, Yihan Fu, Enyi Zhang, Jingkai Song, Qinghang Zhang, Ziqi He, Xin Li, Zecheng Pan, Ding Li, Yu Dong, Xiaowei Xu, Feng Qi, Tianqi Shao, Bonan Yan*, Yi Yang, Houfang Liu* & Tian-Ling Ren*

[HPCA] ESTroM: Element-Flow Architecture For Processing Sparse Tractable Probabilistic Models

2026 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)

Anjunyi Fan, Xuejie Liu, Anji Liu, Qiuping Wu, Jiaqi Yang, Yuchao Qin, Guy Van den Broeck, Yitao Liang* & Bonan Yan*

[ASP-DAC] M3DKV: Monolithic 3D Gain Cell Memory Enabled Efficient KV Cache & Processing

31st Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)

Jiaqi Yang, Yanbo Su, Yihan Fu, Jianshi Tang* & Bonan Yan*

[Nature Communications] Physical Unclonable In-Memory Computing For Simultaneous Protecting Private Data And Deep Learning Models link

Nature Communications

Wenshuo Yue, Kai Wu, Zhiyuan Li, Juchen Zhou, Zeyu Wang, Teng Zhang, Yuxiang Yang, Lintao Ye, Yongqin Wu, Weihai Bu, Shaozhi Wang, Xiaodong He, Xiaobing Yan, Yaoyu Tao, Bonan Yan*, Ru Huang* & Yuchao Yang*

[HPCA] PROCA: Programmable Probabilistic Processing Unit Architecture with Accept/Reject Prediction & Multicore Pipelining for Causal Inference link

2025 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)

Yihan Fu, Anjunyi Fan, Wenshuo Yue, Hongxiao Zhao, Daijing Shi, Qiuping Wu, Jiayi Li, Xiangyu Zhang, Yaoyu Tao, Yuchao Yang* & Bonan Yan*

[DATE] PEARL: FPGA-Based Reinforcement Learning Acceleration with Pipelined Parallel Environments link

2025 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference (DATE)

Jiayi Li, Hongxiao Zhao, Wenshuo Yue, Yihan Fu, Daijing Shi, Anjunyi Fan, Yuchao Yang & Bonan Yan*

[ESSERC] A 40nm 48.7F2/bit 1T2R Resistive Memory Bitcell Array For Adaptive Vector-Symbolic In-Memory Computing

IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC)

Wenshuo Zhaokun Jing, Lintao Ye, Tianyao Xiao, Pek Jun Tiw, Yihan Fu, Yuxiang Yang, Mo Guang, Kaiwen Long, Daijing Shi, Hongxiao Zhao, Teng Zhang, Bonan Yan*, & Yuchao Yang*

[ICICM] OpenPIM: An Open-Source Programmable Processing-In-Memory Accelerator Design & Pipeline Simulation Framework

The 10th International Conference on Integrated Circuits and Microsystems (ICICM)

Ruibao Wang, Wenshuo Yue, Daijing Shi, Yuchao Yang* & Bonan Yan*

[Nature Electronics] A Fast and Reconfigurable Sort-in-Memory System Based on Memristors link

Nature Electronics

Lianfeng Yu, Teng Zhang, Zeyu Wang, Xile Wang, Zelun Pan, Bowen Wang, Zhaokun Jing, Jiaxin Liu, Yuqi Li, Ziang Xie, Yihang Zhu, Bonan Yan, Yaoyu Tao* & Yuchao Yang*

[TCAD] Efficient SRAM-PIM Co-design by Joint Exploration of Value-Level and Bit-Level Sparsity link

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Cenlin Duan, Jianlei Yang*, Yikun Wang, Yiou Wang, Yingjie Qi, Xiaolin He, Bonan Yan, Xueyan Wang, Xiaotao Jia & Weisheng Zhao*

[Advanced Science] Memristive In‐Memory Object Detection with 128 Mb C‐Doped Ge2Sb2Te5 PCM Chip link

Advanced Science

Chenchen Xie, Yuqi Li, Longhao Yan, Sannian Song, Houpeng Chen, Ruijuan Qi, Xi Li, Yihang Zhu, Lianfeng Yu, Bonan Yan, Yaoyu Tao, Gaoming Feng, Yuchao Yang* & Zhitang Song*

[Nature Electronics] A Scalable Universal Ising Machine Based on Interaction-Centric Storage And Compute-In-Memory link

Nature Electronics

Wenshuo Yue, Teng Zhang, Zhaokun Jing, Kai Wu, Yuxiang Yang, Zhen Yang, Yongqin Wu, Weihai Bu, Kai Zheng, Jin Kang, Yibo Lin, Yaoyu Tao, Bonan Yan*, Ru Huang, Yuchao Yang*

[TCAS-I] Probabilistic Compute-in-Memory Design For Efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling link

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Yihan Fu, Daijing Shi, Anjunyi Fan, Wenshuo Yue, Yuchao Yang, Ru Huang, Bonan Yan

[JSSC] A 28-nm 28.8-TOPS/W Attention-Based NN Processor With Correlative CIM Ring Architecture and Dataflow-Reshaped Digital-Assisted CIM Array link

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Ruiqi Guo, Zhiheng Yue, Yang Wang, Hao Li, Te Hu, Yabing Wang, Hao Sun, Jeng-Long Hsu, Yaojun Zhang, Bonan Yan, Leibo Liu, Ru Huang, Shaojun Wei, Shouyi Yin

[Adv. Funct. Mater.] Neural Architecture Search with In-Memory Multiply–Accumulate and In-Memory Rank Based on Coating Layer Optimized C-Doped Ge2Sb2Te5 Phase Change Memory link

Advanced Functional Materials

Longhao Yan, Qingyu Wu, Xi Li, Chenchen Xie, Xilin Zhou, Yuqi Li, Daijing Shi, Lianfeng Yu, Teng Zhang, Yaoyu Tao, Bonan Yan, Min Zhong, Zhitang Song, Yuchao Yang, Ru Huang

[SCIS] Memristive Dynamics Enabled Neuromorphic Computing Systems link

Science China: Information Sciences

Bonan Yan, Yuchao Yang, Ru Huang

[GLSVLSI] SRAM-Based Processing-In-Memory Design with Kullback-Leibler Divergence-Based Dynamic Precision Quantization link

ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2023

Yanjun Li, Chunshan Zu, Bingqian Wang, Zhenhua Zhu, Yaojun Zhang, Ran Duan, Bing Li, Bonan Yan

[AICAS] Live Demonstration: SRAM Compute-In-Memory Based Visual & Aural Recognition System link

2023 IEEE 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS)

Anjunyi Fan, Bo Hu, Zhonghua Jin, Haiyue Han, Yaojun Zhang, Yue Yang, Yuchao Yang, Bonan Yan, Ru Huang

[NCE] Hadamard Product-Based In-Memory Computing Design For Floating Point Neural Network Training link

Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering

Anjunyi Fan, Yihan Fu, Yaoyu Tao, Zhonghua Jin, Haiyue Han, Huiyu Liu, Yaojun Zhang, Bonan Yan, Yuchao Yang, Ru Huang

[Nature Communications] Monolithic Three-Dimensional Integration of RRAM-Based Hybrid Memory Architecture For One-Shot Learning link

Nature Communications

Yijun Li, Jianshi Tang, Bin Gao, Jian Yao, Anjunyi Fan, Bonan Yan, Yuchao Yang, Yue Xi, Yuankun Li, Jiaming Li, Wen Sun, Yiwei Du, Zhengwu Liu, Qingtian Zhang, Song Qiu, Qingwen Li, He Qian, Huaqiang Wu

[TCAD] DDC-PIM: Efficient Algorithm/Architecture Co-design for Doubling Data Capacity of SRAM-Based Processing-In-Memory link

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Cenlin Duan, Jianlei Yang, Xiaolin He, Yingjie Qi, Yikun Wang, Yiou Wang, Ziyan He, Bonan Yan, Xueyan Wang, Xiaotao Jia, Weitao Pan, Weisheng Zhao

[DATE] STAR: An Efficient Softmax Engine For Attention Model With RRAM Crossbar link

2023 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)

Yifeng Zhai, Bing Li, Bonan Yan, Jing Wang

[FPGA] Accelerating Neural-Ode Inference on Fpgas With Two-Stage Structured Pruning And History-Based Stepsize Search link

2023 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays

Lei Cai, Jing Wang, Lianfeng Yu, Bonan Yan, Yaoyu Tao, Yuchao Yang

[Advanced Functional Materials] Neural Architecture Search With In‐Memory Multiply–Accumulate and In‐Memory Rank Based on Coating Layer Optimized C‐Doped Ge$_2$Sb$_2$Te$_5$ Phase Change Memory link

Advanced Functional Materials

Anjunyi Fan, Yihan Fu, Yaoyu Tao, Zhonghua Jin, Haiyue Han, Huiyu Liu, Yaojun Zhang, Bonan Yan, Yuchao Yang, Ru Huang

[ISSCC] A 1.041-Mb/mm2 27.38-TOPS/W Signed-INT8 Dynamic-Logic-Based ADC-less SRAM Compute-in-Memory Macro in 28nm With Reconfigurable Bitwise Operation For AI and Embedded Applications link

IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

Bonan Yan, Jeng-Long Hsu, Pang-Cheng Yu, Chia-Chi Lee, Yaojun Zhang, Wenshuo Yue, Guoqiang Mei, Yuchao Yang, Yue Yang, Hai Li, Yiran Chen, Ru Huang

[ASP-DAC] Heterogeneous Memory Architecture Accommodating Processing-in-Memory on SoC for AIoT Applications link

Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)

Kangyi Qiu, Yaojun Zhang, Bonan Yan, Ru Huang

[A-SSCC] A 28nm 57.6TOPS/W Attention-Based NN Processor With Correlative Computing-In-Memory Ring And Dataflow-Reshaped Digital-Assisted Computing-in-Memory Array link

2022 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)

Ruiqi Guo, Zhiheng Yue, Hao Li, Te Hu, Yabing Wang, Hao Sun, Jeng-Long Hsu, Yaojun Zhang, Bonan Yan, Leibo Liu, Ru Huang, Shaojun Wei, Shouyi Yin

[DAC] ASTERS: Adaptable Threshold Spike-Timing Neuromorphic Design With Twin-Column ReRAM Synapses link

Design Automation Conference (DAC)

Ziru Li, Qilin Zheng, Bonan Yan, Ru Huang, Bing Li, Yiran Chen

[TCAS-I] VSDCA: A Voltage Sensing Differential Column Architecture Based on 1T2R RRAM Array For Computing-in-Memory Accelerators link

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Zhaokun Jing, Bonan Yan, Yuchao Yang, Ru Huang

[EDL] 1-HEMT-1-Memristor With Hardware Encryptor For Privacy-Preserving Image Processing link

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Bingjie Dang, Ling Lv, Hong Wang, Lei Cai, Bonan Yan, Keqin Liu, Liying Xu, Yue Hao, Ru Huang, Yuchao Yang

[Advanced Materials] In‐Memory Realization of Eligibility Traces Based on Conductance Drift of Phase Change Memory for Energy-Efficient Reinforcement Learning link

Advanced Materials

Yingming Lu, Xi Li, Bonan Yan, Longhao Yan, Teng Zhang, Zhitang Song, Ru Huang, Yuchao Yang

[NCE] Memristive devices based hardware for unlabeled data processing link

Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering

Zhuojian Xiao, Bonan Yan, Teng Zhang, Ru Huang, Yuchao Yang

[IEDM] Uncertainty Quantification Based on Multilevel Conductance And Stochasticity of Heater Size Dependent C-doped Ge2Sb2Te5 PCM Chip link

IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM)

Longhao Yan, Xi Li, Yihang Zhu, Bonan Yan, Yingming Lu, Teng Zhang, Yuchao Yang, Zhitang Song, Ru Huang

[ICCAD] ReTransformer: ReRAM-Based Processing-In-Memory Architecture For Transformer Acceleration link

International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)

Xiaoxuan Yang, Bonan Yan, Hai Li, Yiran Chen

[VLSI-TSA] Neuromorphic Computing Systems with Emerging Nonvolatile Memories: A Circuits and Systems Perspective

International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications (VLSI-TSA)

Bonan Yan, Ziru Li, Brady Taylor, Hai Li, Yiran Chen

[DAC] Lattice: an ADC/DAC-less ReRAM-based Processing-In-Memory Architecture For Accelerating Deep Convolution Neural Networks

Design Automation Conference (DAC)

Qilin Zheng, Zongwei Wang, Zishun Feng, Bonan Yan, Yimao Cai, Ru Huang, Yiran Chen, Chia-Lin Yang, Hai Helen Li

[DAC] Resipe: ReRAM-Based Single-Spiking Processing-In-Memory Engine

Design Automation Conference (DAC)

Ziru Li, Bonan Yan, Hai Li

[SPIE] Highly Efficient Neuromorphic Computing Systems With Emerging Nonvolatile Memories

SPIE Novel Patterning Technologies for Semiconductors, MEMS/NEMS and MOEMS

Brady Taylor, Ziru Li, Bonan Yan, Hai Li, Yiran Chen

[IEDM] On Designing Low-Power And Reliable Nonvolatile Memory-based Computing-In-Memory Accelerators

IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM)

Bonan Yan, Mengyun Liu, Yiran Chen, Krishnendu Chakarabarty and Hai Li

[VLSI] RRAM-based Spiking Nonvolatile Computing-In-Memory Processing Engine with Precision-Configurable In Situ Nonlinear Activation

IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technologies

Bonan Yan, Qing Yang, Wei-Hao Chen, Kung-Tang Chang, Jian-Wei Su, Chien-Hua Hsu, Sih-Han Li, Heng-Yuan Lee, Shyh-Shyuan Sheu, Mon-Shu Ho, Qing Wu, Meng-Fan Chang, Yiran Chen and Hai Li

[ITC] Hardware Fault Tolerance for Binary RRAM Crossbars

IEEE International Test Conference (ITC)

Arjun Chaudhuri, Bonan Yan, Yiran Chen and Krishnendu Chakrabarty

[Advanced Intelligent Systems] RRAM Based In-Memory Computing: From Device and Large-Scale Integration System Perspectives

Advanced Intelligent Systems

Bonan Yan, Bing Li, Ximing Qiao, Cheng-Xin Xue, Meng-Fan Chang, Yiran Chen and Hai Li

[GLSVLSI] An overview of in-memory processing with emerging non-volatile memory for data-intensive applications

Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI

Bing Li, Bonan Yan, and Hai Li

[ASP-DAC] Build reliable and efficient neuromorphic design with memristor technology

Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)

Bing Li, Bonan Yan, Chenchen Liu, and Hai Li

[DAC] A neuromorphic design using chaotic Mott memristor with relaxation oscillation

Design Automation Conference (DAC)

Bonan Yan, Xiong Cao, and Hai Li

[DATE] Exploring the opportunity of implementing neuromorphic computing systems with spintronic devices

Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference (DATE)

Bonan Yan, Fan Chen, Yaojun Zhang, Chang Song, Hai Li, and Yiran Chen

[SCIS] Challenges of memristor based neuromorphic computing system

Science China Information Sciences (SCIS)

Bonan Yan, Yiran Chen, and Hai Li

[IEDM] Understanding the trade-offs of device, circuit and application in ReRAM-based neuromorphic computing systems

IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM)

Bonan Yan, Chenchen Liu, Xiaoxiao Liu, Yiran Chen, and Hai Li

[ASP-DAC] Low-power neuromorphic speech recognition engine with coarse-grain sparsity

Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)

Shihui Yin, Deepak Kadetotad, Bonan Yan, Chang Song, Yiran Chen, Chaitali Chakrabarti, and Jae-sun Seo

[ICCAD] A closed-loop design to enhance weight stability of memristor based neural network chips

International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)

Bonan Yan, Jianhua Yang, Qing Wu, Yiran Chen, and Hai Li

[TCAD] Persistent and Non-Persistent Error Optimization for STT-RAM Cell Design

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)

Yaojun Zhang, Bonan Yan, Xiaobin Wang, and Yiran Chen

[ISCAS] A neuromorphic ASIC design using one-selector-one-memristor crossbar

IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

Bonan Yan, Amr Mahmoud Mahmoud, Jianhua Joshua Yang, Qing Wu, Yiran Chen, and Hai Li

[NVMTS] RAM and TCAM designs by using STT-MRAM

Non-Volatile Memory Technology Symposium (NVMTS)

Bonan Yan, Zheng Li, Yiran Chen, and Hai Li

[ISVLSI] A Memristor Crossbar Based Computing Engine Optimized for High Speed and Accuracy

IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)

Chenchen Liu, Qing Yang, Bonan Yan, Jianlei Yang, Xiaocong Du, Weijie Zhu, Hao Jiang, Qing Wu, Mark Barnell, and Hai Li

[Integration] Giant Spin-Hall assisted STT-RAM and logic design

Integration

Enes Ekens, Ismail Bayram, Yaojun Zhang, Bonan Yan, Wenqing Wu, Hai Li, and Yiran Chen

[ASICON] Recent progresses of STT memory design and applications

IEEE 11th International Conference on ASIC (ASICON)

Bonan Yan, Yaojun Zhang, Enes Eken, Wujie Wen, Weisheng Zhao, and Yiran Chen

[VLSI-SoC] An overview on memristor crossbar based neuromorphic circuit and architecture

IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC)

Zheng Li, Chenchen Liu, Yandan Wang, Bonan Yan, Chaofei Yang, Jianlei Yang, and Hai Li

[CISDA] Spiking-based matrix computation by leveraging memristor crossbar array

2015 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA)

Hai Helen Li, Chenchen Liu, Bonan Yan, Chaofei Yang, Linghao Song, Zheng Li, Yiran Chen, Weijie Zhu, Qing Wu, Hao Jiang

[GLSVLSI] A High-Speed Robust NVM-TCAM Design Using Body Bias Feedback

Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLVLSI)

Bonan Yan, Zheng Li, Yaojun Zhang, Jianlei Yang, Hai Li, Weisheng Zhao, and Pierre Chor-Fung Chia

[DAC] A spiking neuromorphic design with resistive crossbar

Design Automation Conference (DAC)

Chenchen Liu, Bonan Yan, Chaofei Yang, Linghao Song, Zheng Li, Beiye Liu, Yiran Chen, Hai Li, Qing Wu, and Hao Jiang

[ISCAS] A new self-reference sensing scheme for TLC MRAM

IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

Zheng Li, Bonan Yan, Lun Yang, Weisheng Zhao, Yiran Chen, and Hai Li

[DATE] Giant spin hall effect (GSHE) logic design for low power application

Design Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)

Yaojun Zhang, Bonan Yan, Wenqing Wu, Hai Li, and Yiran Chen

[T-ED] Compact model of subvolume MTJ and its design application at nanoscale technology nodes

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (T-ED)

Yue Zhang, Bonan Yan, Wang Kang, Yuanqing Cheng, Jacques-Olivier Klein, Youguang Zhang, Yiran Chen, and Weisheng Zhao