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With the rapidly-developing high-speed wireless communications, the 60 GHz millimeter-wave frequency range and radio-over-fiber systems have been investigated as a promising solution to deliver mm-wave signals. Neural networks have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Jeonghun Lee , Jiayuan He , Ke Wang

We present a compilation flow for the generation of CNN inference accelerators on FPGAs. The flow translates a frozen model into OpenCL kernels with the TVM compiler and uses the Intel OpenCL SDK to compile to an FPGA bitstream. We improve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Seung-Hun Chung , Tarek S. Abdelrahman

Large-scale deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used in machine learning applications. While CNNs involve huge complexity, VLSI (ASIC and FPGA) chips that deliver high-density integration of computational resources are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Xushen Han , Dajiang Zhou , Shihao Wang , Shinji Kimura

FPGA accelerators for lightweight neural convolutional networks (LWCNNs) have recently attracted significant attention. Most existing LWCNN accelerators focus on single-Computing-Engine (CE) architecture with local optimization. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhiyuan Zhao , Yihao Chen , Pengcheng Feng , Jixing Li , Gang Chen , Rongxuan Shen , Huaxiang Lu

The growing concerns regarding energy consumption and privacy have prompted the development of AI solutions deployable on the edge, circumventing the substantial CO2 emissions associated with cloud servers and mitigating risks related to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Federico Nicolas Peccia , Svetlana Pavlitska , Tobias Fleck , Oliver Bringmann

FPGA becomes a popular technology for implementing Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in recent years. Most CNN applications on FPGA are domain-specific, e.g., detecting objects from specific categories, in which commonly-used CNN models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ruizhe Zhao , Ho-Cheung Ng , Wayne Luk , Xinyu Niu

Various hardware accelerators have been developed for energy-efficient and real-time inference of neural networks on edge devices. However, most training is done on high-performance GPUs or servers, and the huge memory and computing costs…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Kaiqi Zhang , Cole Hawkins , Xiyuan Zhang , Cong Hao , Zheng Zhang

The predictive power of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has been an integral factor for emerging latency-sensitive applications, such as autonomous drones and vehicles. Such systems employ multiple CNNs, each one trained for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Stylianos I. Venieris , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Deploying complex Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on FPGA-based accelerators is a promising way forward for safety-critical domains such as aeronautics. In a previous work, we have explored the Versatile Tensor Accelerator (VTA) and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Anthony Faure-Gignoux , Kevin Delmas , Adrien Gauffriau , Claire Pagetti

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) obtain outstanding results in tasks that require human-level understanding of data, like image or speech recognition. However, their computational load is significant, motivating the development of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Paolo Meloni , Alessandro Capotondi , Gianfranco Deriu , Michele Brian , Francesco Conti , Davide Rossi , Luigi Raffo , Luca Benini

Autoregressive convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely exploited for sequence generation tasks such as audio synthesis, language modeling and neural machine translation. WaveNet is a deep autoregressive CNN composed of several…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Shehzeen Hussain , Mojan Javaheripi , Paarth Neekhara , Ryan Kastner , Farinaz Koushanfar

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…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). However, their high computational cost, latency, and memory footprint make its deployment…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Sachini Wickramasinghe , Tian Ye , Cauligi Raghavendra , Viktor Prasanna

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

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are the state of the art systems for image classification and scene understating. However, such techniques are computationally intensive and involve highly regular parallel computation. CNNs can…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Kamel Abdelouahab , Maxime Pelcat , Jocelyn Serot , Cedric Bourrasset , Jean-Charles Quinton , François Berry

This study presents advanced neural network architectures including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs), and Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) for enhanced ECG signal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kayode Inadagbo , Baran Arig , Nisanur Alici , Murat Isik

Existing deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) generate massive interlayer feature data during network inference. To maintain real-time processing in embedded systems, large on-chip memory is required to buffer the interlayer feature…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhuang Shao , Xiaoliang Chen , Li Du , Lei Chen , Yuan Du , Wei Zhuang , Huadong Wei , Chenjia Xie , Zhongfeng Wang

Low precision data representation is important to reduce storage size and memory access for convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Yet, existing methods have two major limitations: (1) requiring re-training to maintain accuracy for deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Chen Wu , Mingyu Wang , Xinyuan Chu , Kun Wang , Lei He

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are revolutionizing machine learning, but they present significant computational challenges. Recently, many FPGA-based accelerators have been proposed to improve the performance and efficiency of CNNs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yongming Shen , Michael Ferdman , Peter Milder

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,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Lucian Petrica , Tobias Alonso , Mairin Kroes , Nicholas Fraser , Sorin Cotofana , Michaela Blott