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Convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerators are being widely used for their efficiency, but they require a large amount of memory, leading to the use of a slow and power consuming external memory. This paper exploits two schemes to…

The recent research advances in deep learning have led to the development of small and powerful Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures. Meanwhile Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) has become a popular hardware target choice…

Rapid design space exploration in early design stage is critical to algorithm-architecture co-design for accelerators. In this work, a pre-RTL cycle-accurate accelerator simulator based on SystemC transaction-level modeling (TLM),…

Reconfigurable architectures, such as FPGAs, enable the execution of code at the electronics level, avoiding the assumptions imposed by the general purpose black-box micro-architectures of CPUs and GPUs. Such tailored execution can result…

Custom dataflow Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) inference accelerators on FPGA are tailored to a specific CNN topology and store parameters in On-Chip Memory (OCM), resulting in high energy efficiency and low inference latency. However,…

Neuromorphic computing, inspired by biological neural systems, holds immense promise for ultra-low-power and real-time inference applications. However, limited access to flexible, open-source platforms continues to hinder widespread…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) implemented on neuromorphic processors (NPs) can enhance the energy efficiency of deployments of artificial intelligence (AI) for specific workloads. As such, NP represents an interesting opportunity for…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) combine large amounts of parallelizable computation with frequent memory access. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can achieve low latency and high throughput CNN inference by implementing dataflow…

A new field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based emulation platform is proposed to accelerate fault tolerance analysis of inference accelerators of convolutional neural networks (CNN). For a given CNN model, hardware accelerator…

Nowadays most research in visual recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) follows the "deeper model with deeper confidence" belief to gain a higher recognition accuracy. At the same time, deeper model brings heavier…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are currently adopted to solve an ever greater number of problems, ranging from speech recognition to image classification and segmentation. The large amount of processing required by CNNs calls for…

Synaptic delay has attracted significant attention in neural network dynamics for integrating and processing complex spatiotemporal information. This paper introduces a high-throughput Spiking Neural Network (SNN) processor that supports…

This paper presents a benchmarking methodology for evaluating end-to-end performance of deterministic signal-processing pipelines expressed using CNN-compatible primitives. The benchmark targets phased-array workloads such as ultrasound…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained high popularity as a tool for computer vision tasks and for that reason are used in various applications. There are many different concepts, like single shot detectors, that have been…

As processors increase in complexity, costs grow even more rapidly, both for functional verification and performance validation. Most often, silicon characterizations comprise simple performance counters, which are aggregated and separated…

Purpose- High speed image processing is a challenging task for real-time applications such as product quality control of manufacturing lines. Smart image sensors use an array of in-pixel processors to facilitate high-speed real-time image…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) reach high accuracies in various application domains, but require large amounts of computation and incur costly data movements. One method to decrease these costs while trading accuracy is weight and/or…

On-device CNN inference for real-time computer vision applications can result in computational demands that far exceed the energy budgets of mobile devices. This paper proposes FixyNN, a co-designed hardware accelerator platform which…

Computational complexity and storage requirements are crucial factors influencing the performance and efficiency of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in resource-constrained environments. This paper presents a high-performance embedded…

We present a novel method of CNN inference for pixel processor array (PPA) vision sensors, designed to take advantage of their massive parallelism and analog compute capabilities. PPA sensors consist of an array of processing elements…