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A Scalable FPGA Architecture With Adaptive Memory Utilization for GEMM-Based Operations

Hardware Architecture 2025-10-10 v1

Abstract

Deep neural network (DNN) inference relies increasingly on specialized hardware for high computational efficiency. This work introduces a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based dynamically configurable accelerator featuring systolic arrays, high-bandwidth memory, and UltraRAMs. We present two processing unit (PU) configurations with different computing capabilities using the same interfaces and peripheral blocks. By instantiating multiple PUs and employing a heuristic weight transfer schedule, the architecture achieves notable throughput efficiency over prior works. Moreover, we outline how the architecture can be extended to emulate analog in-memory computing (AIMC) devices to aid next-generation heterogeneous AIMC chip designs and investigate device-level noise behavior. Overall, this brief presents a versatile DNN inference acceleration architecture adaptable to various models and future FPGA designs.

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@article{arxiv.2510.08137,
  title  = {A Scalable FPGA Architecture With Adaptive Memory Utilization for GEMM-Based Operations},
  author = {Anastasios Petropoulos and Theodore Antonakopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08137},
  year   = {2025}
}
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