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Voltage underscaling below the nominal level is an effective solution for improving energy efficiency in digital circuits, e.g., Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). However, further undervolting below a safe voltage level and without…

In this paper, we exploit the aggressive supply voltage underscaling technique in Block RAMs (BRAMs) of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to improve the energy efficiency of Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). Additionally, we evaluate and…

Energy-efficiency is a key concern for neural network applications. To alleviate this issue, hardware acceleration using FPGAs or GPUs can provide better energy-efficiency than general-purpose processors. However, further improvement of the…

Reduced voltage operation is an effective technique for substantial energy efficiency improvement in digital circuits. This brief introduces a simple approach for enabling reduced voltage operation of Deep Neural Network (DNN) accelerators…

Hardware accelerators are being increasingly deployed to boost the performance and energy efficiency of deep neural network (DNN) inference. In this paper we propose Thundervolt, a new framework that enables aggressive voltage underscaling…

Among hardware accelerators for deep-learning inference, data flow implementations offer low latency and high throughput capabilities. In these architectures, each neuron is mapped to a dedicated hardware unit, making them well-suited for…

We present a full-stack optimization framework for accelerating inference of CNNs (Convolutional Neural Networks) and validate the approach with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) implementations. By jointly optimizing CNN models,…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are inherently computation-intensive and also power-hungry. Hardware accelerators such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are a promising solution that can satisfy these requirements for both embedded and…

Spiking neural networks have made breakthroughs in computer vision by lending themselves to neuromorphic hardware. However, the neuromorphic hardware lacks parallelism and hence, limits the throughput and hardware acceleration of SNNs on…

The energy consumption of DRAM is a critical concern in modern computing systems. Improvements in manufacturing process technology have allowed DRAM vendors to lower the DRAM supply voltage conservatively, which reduces some of the DRAM…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained widespread popularity in the field of computer vision and image processing. Due to huge computational requirements of CNNs, dedicated hardware-based implementations are being explored to…

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…

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…

Convolutional Neural Networks are extensively used in a wide range of applications, commonly including computer vision tasks like image and video classification, recognition, and segmentation. Recent research results demonstrate that…

With the great advancements of convolution neural networks(CNN), CNN accelerators are increasingly developed and deployed in the major computing systems.To make use of the CNN accelerators, CNN models are trained via the off-line training…

Neural Networks are currently one of the most widely deployed machine learning algorithms. In particular, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), are gaining popularity and are evaluated for deployment in safety critical applications such as…

Modern large-scale computing systems (data centers, supercomputers, cloud and edge setups and high-end cyber-physical systems) employ heterogeneous architectures that consist of multicore CPUs, general-purpose many-core GPUs, and…

FPGA-based hardware accelerators for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have obtained great attentions due to their higher energy efficiency than GPUs. However, it is challenging for FPGA-based solutions to achieve a higher throughput…

This paper summarizes our work on experimental characterization and analysis of reduced-voltage operation in modern DRAM chips, which was published in SIGMETRICS 2017, and examines the work's significance and future potential. We take a…

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of applications. However, deeper CNN models, which are usually computation consuming, are widely required for complex Artificial…