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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

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

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs), particularly LSTMs, are effective for time-series tasks like sentiment analysis and short-term stock prediction. However, their computational complexity poses challenges for real-time deployment in resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Shashwat Khandelwal , Jakoba Petri-Koenig , Thomas B. Preußer , Michaela Blott , Shreejith Shanker

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

Deep learning applications have achieved great success in numerous real-world applications. Deep learning models, especially Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) are often prototyped using FPGA because it offers high power efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Adewale Adeyemo , Travis Sandefur , Tolulope A. Odetola , Syed Rafay Hasan

Modern hardware architectures for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), other than targeting high performance, aim at dissipating limited energy. Reducing the data movement cost between the computing cores and the memory is a way to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Cristian Sestito , Shady Agwa , Themis Prodromakis

Convolutional neural network (CNN) dataflow inference accelerators implemented in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have demonstrated increased energy efficiency and lower latency compared to CNN execution on CPUs or GPUs. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Mairin Kroes , Lucian Petrica , Sorin Cotofana , Michaela Blott

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

Open-source simulation tools play a crucial role for neuromorphic application engineers and hardware architects to investigate performance bottlenecks and explore design optimizations before committing to silicon. Reconfigurable…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sahil Hassan , Michael Inouye , Miguel C. Gonzalez , Ilkin Aliyev , Joshua Mack , Maisha Hafiz , Ali Akoglu

Edge AI applications increasingly require models that can learn and adapt on-device with minimal energy budget. Traditional deep learning models, while powerful, are often overparameterized, energy-hungry, and dependent on cloud…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Muhammad Ihsan Al Hafiz , Naresh Ravichandran , Anders Lansner , Pawel Herman , Artur Podobas

This paper introduces a Scalable Hierarchical Aware Convolutional Neural Network (SHA-CNN) model architecture for Edge AI applications. The proposed hierarchical CNN model is meticulously crafted to strike a balance between computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Narendra Singh Dhakad , Yuvnish Malhotra , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma , Kaushik Roy

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) serve various applications with diverse performance and resource requirements. Model-aware CNN accelerators best address these diverse requirements. These accelerators usually combine multiple dedicated…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Fareed Qararyah , Mohammad Ali Maleki , Pedro Trancoso

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

Today when many practitioners run basic NLP on the entire web and large-volume traffic, faster methods are paramount to saving time and energy costs. Recent advances in GPU hardware have led to the emergence of bi-directional LSTMs as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Emma Strubell , Patrick Verga , David Belanger , Andrew McCallum

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

Spectral-domain CNNs have been shown to be more efficient than traditional spatial CNNs in terms of reducing computation complexity. However they come with a `kernel explosion' problem that, even after compression (pruning), imposes a high…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yue Niu , Rajgopal Kannan , Ajitesh Srivastava , Viktor Prasanna

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a major impact on our society because of the numerous services they provide. On the other hand, they require considerable computing power. To satisfy these requirements, it is possible to use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Alireza Ghaffari , Yvon Savaria

Deep learning-based point cloud processing plays an important role in various vision tasks, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR). The submanifold sparse convolutional network (SSCN) has been widely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Zilun Wang , Wendong Mao , Peixiang Yang , Zhongfeng Wang , Jun Lin

Due to recent advances in digital technologies, and availability of credible data, an area of artificial intelligence, deep learning, has emerged, and has demonstrated its ability and effectiveness in solving complex learning problems not…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Ahmad Shawahna , Sadiq M. Sait , Aiman El-Maleh

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