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We propose a Digital Neuron, a hardware inference accelerator for convolutional deep neural networks with integer inputs and integer weights for embedded systems. The main idea to reduce circuit area and power consumption is manipulating…

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In recent years, the introduction of neural networks (NNs) into the field of speech enhancement has brought significant improvements. However, many of the proposed methods are quite demanding in terms of computational complexity and memory…

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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their inherent recurrence, offer an efficient method for processing the asynchronous temporal data generated by Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS), making them well-suited for event-based vision applications.…

The computing wall and data movement challenges of deep neural networks (DNNs) have exposed the limitations of conventional CMOS-based DNN accelerators. Furthermore, the deep structure and large model size will make DNNs prohibitive to…

The Von-Neumann bottleneck is a clear limitation for data-intensive applications, bringing in-memory computing (IMC) solutions to the fore. Since large data sets are usually stored in nonvolatile memory (NVM), various solutions have been…

The hardware implementation of deep neural networks (DNNs) has recently received tremendous attention: many applications in fact require high-speed operations that suit a hardware implementation. However, numerous elements and complex…

Binary neural networks provide a promising solution for low-power, high-speed inference by replacing expensive floating-point operations with bitwise logic. This makes them well-suited for deployment on resource-constrained platforms such…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown to provide superb performance in many real life applications, but their large computation cost and storage requirement have prevented them from being deployed to many edge and internet-of-things (IoT)…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) demonstrate excellent performance in various applications but have high computational complexity. Quantization is applied to reduce the latency and storage cost of CNNs. Among the quantization methods,…

Silicon-based Static Random Access Memories (SRAM) and digital Boolean logic have been the workhorse of the state-of-art computing platforms. Despite tremendous strides in scaling the ubiquitous metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor, the…

This paper presents a hardware-efficient deep neural network (DNN), optimized through hardware-aware neural architecture search (HW-NAS); the DNN supports the classification of session-level encrypted traffic on resource-constrained…

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have been shown to be robust to random bit-level noise, making aggressive voltage scaling attractive as a power-saving technique for both logic and SRAMs. In this work, we introduce the first fully programmable…

The emerging mobile devices in this era of internet-of-things (IoT) require a dedicated processor to enable computationally intensive applications such as neuromorphic computing and signal processing. Vector-by-matrix multiplication (VMM)…

Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based inference on battery-powered devices can be made more energy-efficient by restricting the synaptic weights to be binary, hence eliminating the need to perform multiplications. An alternative, emerging,…

Binary convolutional networks have lower computational load and lower memory foot-print compared to their full-precision counterparts. So, they are a feasible alternative for the deployment of computer vision applications on limited…

Existing Continual Learning (CL) solutions only partially address the constraints on power, memory and computation of the deep learning models when deployed on low-power embedded CPUs. In this paper, we propose a CL solution that embraces…

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