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CiMBA: Accelerating Genome Sequencing through On-Device Basecalling via Compute-in-Memory

Simon, William Andrew
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Boybat, Irem
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Kodra, Riselda  
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2025
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

As genome sequencing is finding utility in a wide variety of domains beyond the confines of traditional medical settings, its computational pipeline faces two significant challenges. First, the creation of up to 0.5 GB of data per minute imposes substantial communication and storage overheads. Second, the sequencing pipeline is bottlenecked at the basecalling step, consuming >40% of genome analysis time. A range of proposals have attempted to address these challenges, with limited success. We propose to address these challenges with a Compute-in-Memory Basecalling Accelerator (CiMBA), the first embedded (∼ 25mm2) accelerator capable of real-time, on-device basecalling, coupled with AnaLog (AL)-Dorado, a new family of analog focused basecalling DNNs. Our resulting hardware/software co-design greatly reduces data communication overhead, is capable of a throughput of 4.77 million bases per second, 24× that required for real-time operation, and achieves 17×/27× power/area efficiency over the best prior basecalling embedded accelerator while maintaining a high accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art software basecallers.

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DOI
10.1109/TPDS.2025.3550811
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105000459957

Author(s)
Simon, William Andrew

International Business Machines

Boybat, Irem

International Business Machines

Kodra, Riselda  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Ferro, Elena

International Business Machines

Singh, Gagandeep

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Alser, Mohammed

Georgia State University

Jain, Shubham

International Business Machines

Tsai, Hsinyu

International Business Machines

Burr, Geoffrey W.

International Business Machines

Mutlu, Onur

ETH Zürich

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Date Issued

2025

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Subjects

analog in-memory computing

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edge computing

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Genome sequencing

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April 11, 2025
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