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The increasing need for compact and low-power computing solutions for machine learning applications has triggered significant interest in energy-efficient neuromorphic systems. However, most of these architectures rely on spiking neural…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as the method of choice for solving a wide range of machine learning tasks. The enormous computational demands posed by DNNs have most commonly been addressed through the design of custom…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant research attention in the last decade due to their potential to drive resource-constrained edge devices. Though existing SNN accelerators offer high efficiency in processing sparse…

Specialized coprocessors for Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) intensive workloads such as Deep Learning are becoming widespread in SoC platforms, from GPUs to mobile SoCs. In this paper we revisit NTX (an efficient accelerator developed for…

The gamut of todays internet-connected embedded devices has led to increased concerns regarding the security and confidentiality of data. Most internet-connected embedded devices employ mathematically secure cryptographic algorithms to…

We propose EdgeSpike, a co-designed spiking neural network (SNN) framework for autonomous low-power sensing in edge Internet of Things (IoT) architectures. EdgeSpike unifies (i) a hybrid surrogate-gradient and direct-encoding training…

This paper makes the case for a single-ISA heterogeneous computing platform, AISC, where each compute engine (be it a core or an accelerator) supports a different subset of the very same ISA. An ISA subset may not be functionally complete,…

Today's computing systems require moving data back-and-forth between computing resources (e.g., CPUs, GPUs, accelerators) and off-chip main memory so that computation can take place on the data. Unfortunately, this data movement is a major…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired alternative to conventional artificial neural networks, with potential advantages in power efficiency due to their event-driven computation. Despite their promise, SNNs have yet…

In todays world, high-power computing applications such as image processing, digital signal processing, graphics, and robotics require enormous computing power. These applications use matrix operations, especially matrix multiplication.…

The exponential emergence of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) has accelerated the research of hardware implementation of Deep Neural Network (DNN). Among all DNN processors, domain specific architectures, such as, Google's Tensor…

There is a growing necessity for edge training to adapt to dynamically changing environment. Neuromorphic computing represents a significant pathway for high-efficiency intelligent computation in energy-constrained edges, but existing…

Scientific computing applications, such as computational fluid dynamics and climate modeling, typically rely on 64-bit double-precision floating-point operations, which are extremely costly in terms of computation, memory, and energy. While…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are powerful models of spatiotemporal computation and are well suited for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices and neuromorphic hardware due to their low power consumption. Leveraging attention…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are an emerging type of biologically plausible and efficient Artificial Neural Network (ANN). This work presents the development of a hardware accelerator for a SNN for high-performance inference, targeting a…

Graph analytics are vital in fields such as social networks, biomedical research, and graph neural networks (GNNs). However, traditional CPUs and GPUs struggle with the memory bottlenecks caused by large graph datasets and their…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are gaining attention for their energy efficiency and biological plausibility, utilizing 0-1 activation sparsity through spike-driven computation. While existing SNN accelerators exploit this sparsity to skip…

The ever-increasing quest for data-level parallelism and variable precision in ubiquitous multimedia and Deep Neural Network (DNN) applications has motivated the use of Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) architectures. To alleviate…

Heterogeneous systems increasingly rely on RISC-V cores as orchestration engines to manage data movement, synchronization, and scheduling across accelerators and reconfigurable fabrics. Conventional performance metrics, such as FLOPs,…

With the increasing application scope of spiking neural networks (SNN), the complexity of SNN models has surged, leading to an exponential growth in demand for AI computility. As the new generation computing architecture of the neural…