Architecture, Simulation and Software Stack to Support Post-CMOS Accelerators: The ARCHYTAS Project
Giovanni Agosta, Stefano Cherubin, Derek Christ, Francesco Conti, Asbjørn Djupdal, Matthias Jung, Γεώργιος Κεραμίδας, Roberto Passerone, Paolo Rech, Elisa Ricci, Philippe Velha, Flavio Vella, Kasım Sinan Yıldırım, Nils Wilbert · 2025
ARCHYTAS aims to design and evaluate nonconventional hardware accelerators, in particular, optoelectronic, volatile and non-volatile processing-in-memory, and neuromorphic, to tackle the power, efficiency, and scalability bottlenecks of AI with an emphasis on defense use cases (e.g., autonomous vehicles, surveillance drones, maritime and space platforms). In this paper, we present the system architecture and software stack that ARCHYTAS will develop to integrate and support those accelerators, as well as the simulation software needed for early prototyping of the full system and its components.