扩展模拟存内计算:面向拓扑感知映射的仿真框架
Scaling Up Analog CIM: A Simulation Framework for Topology-Aware Mapping
Yuxin Ren, Danella Zhao, Huanrui Yang
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作者提出仿真平台 Isobar,用于在模拟存内计算(CIM)系统扩展至 chiplet 规模时评估并优化权重映射拓扑对性能的影响。
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Analog compute-in-memory (CIM) enables energy-efficient AI inference by performing in-situ matrix multiplication. The growing demand for deploying larger models motivates chiplet integration to expand CIM capacity. However, simulation abstractions based on local operator costs and aggregate communication metrics obscure the impact of weight-mapping topology when CIM system scales up. We develop a phase analysis that quantifies how strongly mapping topology affects system performance across hardware configurations and how mapping optimization translates into latency gains. To evaluate and exploit this design space, we present Isobar, a simulation platform integrating CIM decompositions, heterogeneous execution, and resource modeling. Validated against silicon measurements and cycle-accurate simulation, Isobar provides reliable cost estimates that enable effective mapping search across model and hardware configurations. For Gemma-7B prefill, Isobar-guided mapping reduces communication time by 23.3% and end-to-end latency by 18.6% relative to the strongest baseline. Isobar's system-level modeling show that analog CIM retains energy-efficiency potential relative to GPU when scaled to thousands of dies, and identify topology-aware mapping as a key design dimension for efficient execution.