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Implementing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has emerged as a promising alternative to GPUs, offering lower latency, greater power efficiency and greater flexibility. However, this development…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Philippe Magalhães , Virginie Fresse , Benoît Suffran , Olivier Alata

In view of the large amount of calculation and long calculation time of convolutional neural network (CNN), this paper proposes a convolutional neural network hardware accelerator based on field programmable logic gate array (FPGA). First,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xiong Jun

Dataflow-based CNN accelerators on FPGAs achieve low latency and high throughput by mapping computations of each layer directly to corresponding hardware units. However, layers such as pooling and strided convolutions reduce the data at…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Tobias Habermann , Martin Kumm

In recent years deep learning algorithms have shown extremely high performance on machine learning tasks such as image classification and speech recognition. In support of such applications, various FPGA accelerator architectures have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Xinyu Zhang , Srinjoy Das , Ojash Neopane , Ken Kreutz-Delgado

We empirically evaluate an undervolting technique, i.e., underscaling the circuit supply voltage below the nominal level, to improve the power-efficiency of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) accelerators mapped to Field Programmable Gate…

In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely adopted in computer vision. Complex CNN architecture running on CPU or GPU has either insufficient throughput or prohibitive power consumption. Hence, there is a need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Zhengdong Li , Frederick Ziyang Hong , C. Patrick Yue

We present a new efficient OpenCL-based Accelerator for large scale Convolutional Neural Networks called Fast Inference on FPGAs for Convolution Neural Network (FFCNN). FFCNN is based on a deeply pipelined OpenCL kernels architecture. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 F. Keddous , H-N. Nguyen , A. Nakib

Since introduced, Swin Transformer has achieved remarkable results in the field of computer vision, it has sparked the need for dedicated hardware accelerators, specifically catering to edge computing demands. For the advantages of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zhiyang Liu , Pengyu Yin , Zhenhua Ren

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrate excellent performance in various computer vision applications. In recent years, FPGA-based CNN accelerators have been proposed for optimizing performance and power efficiency. Most…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Jung-Woo Chang , Keon-Woo Kang , Suk-Ju Kang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Laurie Bose , Jianing Chen , Stephen J. Carey , Piotr Dudek , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be extremely accurate for image recognition, even outperforming human recognition capability. When deployed on battery-powered mobile devices, efficient computer architectures are required…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mehdi Ahmadi , Shervin Vakili , J. M. Pierre Langlois

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-17 Nazariy K. Shaydyuk , Eugene B. John

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely employed to solve various problems, e.g., image classification. Due to their compute- and data-intensive nature, CNN accelerators have been developed as ASICs or on FPGAs. Increasing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Patrick Plagwitz , Frank Hannig , Jürgen Teich , Oliver Keszocze

During the last years, algorithms known as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) had become increasingly popular, expanding its application range to several areas. In particular, the image processing field has experienced a remarkable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Federico Nicolas Peccia , Luciano Ferreyro , Alejandro Furfaro

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…

The state-of-the-art accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) typically focus on accelerating only the convolutional layers, but do not prioritize the fully-connected layers much. Hence, they lack a synergistic optimization of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Tanvir , Rehan Hafiz , Semeen Rehman , Muhammad Shafique

FPGA is appropriate for fix-point neural networks computing due to high power efficiency and configurability. However, its design must be intensively refined to achieve high performance using limited hardware resources. We present an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Qingyang Yi , Heming Sun , Masahiro Fujita

To process sensor data in the Internet of Things(IoTs), embedded deep learning for 1-dimensional data is an important technique. In the past, CNNs were frequently used because they are simple to optimise for special embedded hardware such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Chao Qian , Tianheng Ling , Gregor Schiele

We present a high-speed, energy-efficient Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture utilising the capabilities of a unique class of devices known as analog Focal Plane Sensor Processors (FPSP), in which the sensor and the processor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Matthew Z. Wong , Benoit Guillard , Riku Murai , Sajad Saeedi , Paul H. J. Kelly

Mini-batch inference of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is a key problem in many real-world applications. Recently, a GNN design principle of model depth-receptive field decoupling has been proposed to address the well-known issue of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Bingyi Zhang , Hanqing Zeng , Viktor Prasanna