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The growth of connected intelligent devices in the Internet of Things has created a pressing need for real-time processing and understanding of large volumes of analogue data. The difficulty in boosting the computing speed renders digital computing unable to meet the demand for processing analogue information that is intrinsically continuous in magnitude and time. By utilizing a continuous data representation in a nanoscale crossbar array, parallel computing can be implemented for the direct processing of analogue information in real time. Here, we propose a scalable massively parallel computing scheme by exploiting a continuous-time data representation and frequency multiplexing in a nanoscale crossbar array. This computing scheme enables the parallel reading of stored data and the one-shot operation of matrix–matrix multiplications in the crossbar array. Furthermore, we achieve the one-shot recognition of 16 letter images based on two physically interconnected crossbar arrays and demonstrate that the processing and modulation of analogue information can be simultaneously performed in a memristive crossbar array.Continuous-time data representation and frequency multiplexing enable the implementation of a scalable massively parallel computing scheme in a nanoscale crossbar array for applications in intelligent edge devices.

As the optical communication technology advances, vortex beam with orbital angular momentum (OAM) has gained wide attention due to its potential to significantly increase the channel capacity. Under the influence of atmospheric turbulence, there are still challenging problems in the OAM multiplexing system. To the best of our knowledge, in this paper one multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) detection technology named K-best detection, is first applied to the OAM multiplexing system. Numerical simulation results indicate the proposed solution enhances the performance of the optical communication system compared with data-aided least mean square (DA-LMS) and minimum mean squared error (MMSE) detection. Furthermore, with MMSE sorted QR decomposition (MMSE-SQRD) preprocessing, the performance of K-best detection can be further improved. When C n 2 = 1×10 −14 , about 4.4 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain can be obtained by preprocessing at k = 2 while the complexity is not significantly increased. Computational complexity is also analyzed in this paper, results show that K-best detection with winner path extension (WPE) algorithm can achieve 43% system complexity reduction, achieving a compromise between performance and complexity in K-best detection.

Parallel wireless digital communication with ultralow power consumption is critical for emerging edge technologies such as 5G and Internet of Things. However, the physical separation between digital computing units and analogue transmission units in traditional wireless technology leads to high power consumption. Here we report a parallel in-memory wireless computing scheme. The approach combines in-memory computing with wireless communication using memristive crossbar arrays. We show that the system can be used for the radio transmission of a binary stream of 480 bits with a bit error rate of 0/480. The in-memory wireless computing uses two orders of magnitude less power than conventional technology (based on digital-to-analogue and analogue-to-digital converters). We also show that the approach can be applied to acoustic and optical wireless communications. A parallel in-memory wireless computing scheme that is based on memristive crossbar arrays can provide energy-efficient wireless data transmission using radio, acoustic and light waves.

In the design of wireless systems, quantization plays a critical role in hardware, which directly affects both area efficiency and energy efficiency. Being an enabling technique, the wide applications of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) heavily relies on efficient implementations balancing both performance and complexity. However, most of the existing detectors uniformly quantize all variables, resulting in high redundancy and low flexibility. Requiring both expertise and efforts, an in-depth tailored quantization usually asks for prohibitive costs and is not considered by conventional MIMO detectors. In this paper, a general framework named the automatic hybrid-precision quantization (AHPQ) is proposed with two parts: integral quantization determined by probability density function (PDF), and fractional quantization by deep reinforcement learning (DRL). Being automatic, AHPQ demonstrates high efficiency in figuring out good quantizations for a set of algorithmic parameters. For the approximate message passing (AMP) detector, AHPQ achieves up to \\(58.7\\%\\) lower average bitwidth than the unified quantization (UQ) one with almost no performance sacrifice. The feasibility of AHPQ has been verified by implementation with \\(65\\) nm CMOS technology. Compared with its UQ counterpart, AHPQ exhibits \\(2.97\\times\\) higher throughput-to-area ratio (TAR) with \\(19.3\\%\\) lower energy dissipation. Moreover, by node compression and strength reduction, the AHPQ detector outperforms the state-of-the-art (SOA) in both throughput (\\(17.92\\) Gb/s) and energy efficiency (\\(7.93\\) pJ/b). The proposed AHPQ framework is also applicable for other digital signal processing algorithms.

Parallel wireless digital communication with ultralow power consumption is critical for emerging edge technologies such as 5G and Internet of Things. However, the physical separation between digital computing units and analogue transmission units in traditional wireless technology leads to high power consumption. Here we report a parallel in-memory wireless computing scheme. The approach combines in-memory computing with wireless communication using memristive crossbar arrays. We show that the system can be used for the radio transmission of a binary stream of 480 bits with a bit error rate of 0. The in-memory wireless computing uses two orders of magnitude less power than conventional technology (based on digital-to-analogue and analogue-to-digital converters). We also show that the approach can be applied to acoustic and optical wireless communications

In this paper, we consider the channel modeling of a heterogeneous vehicular integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a dual-functional multi-antenna base station (BS) intends to communicate with a multi-antenna vehicular receiver (MR) and sense the surrounding environments simultaneously. The time-varying complex channel impulse responses (CIRs) of the sensing and communication channels are derived, respectively, in which the sensing and communication channels are correlated with shared clusters. The proposed models show great generality for the capability in covering both monostatic and bistatic sensing scenarios, and as well for considering both static clusters/targets and mobile clusters/targets. Important channel statistical characteristics, including time-varying spatial cross-correlation function (CCF) and temporal auto-correlation function (ACF), are derived and analyzed. Numerically results are provided to show the propagation characteristics of the proposed ISAC channel model. Finally, the proposed model is validated via the agreement between theoretical and simulated as well as measurement results.

The growth of connected intelligent devices in the Internet of Things has created a pressing need for real-time processing and understanding of large volumes of analogue data. The difficulty in boosting the computing speed renders digital computing unable to meet the demand for processing analogue information that is intrinsically continuous in magnitude and time. By utilizing a continuous data representation in a nanoscale crossbar array, parallel computing can be implemented for the direct processing of analogue information in real time. Here, we propose a scalable massively parallel computing scheme by exploiting a continuous-time data representation and frequency multiplexing in a nanoscale crossbar array. This computing scheme enables the parallel reading of stored data and the one-shot operation of matrix-matrix multiplications in the crossbar array. Furthermore, we achieve the one-shot recognition of 16 letter images based on two physically interconnected crossbar arrays and demonstrate that the processing and modulation of analogue information can be simultaneously performed in a memristive crossbar array.