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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding accuracy for many vision tasks during recent years. When deploying CNNs on portable devices and embedded systems, however, the large number of parameters and computations result in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Mehdi Ahmadi , Shervin Vakili , J. M. Pierre Langlois

Machine intelligence, especially using convolutional neural networks (CNNs), has become a large area of research over the past years. Increasingly sophisticated hardware accelerators are proposed that exploit e.g. the sparsity in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Andreas Bytyn , René Ahlsdorf , Rainer Leupers , Gerd Ascheid

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a prominent type of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have emerged as a state-of-the-art solution for solving machine learning tasks. To improve the performance and energy efficiency of CNN inference, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

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

Convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerators are being widely used for their efficiency, but they require a large amount of memory, leading to the use of a slow and power consuming external memory. This paper exploits two schemes to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Hyeong-Ju Kang

Dataflow-based CNN accelerators on FPGAs achieve low latency and high throughput by mapping computations of each layer directly to corresponding hardware units. However, layers such as pooling and strided convolutions reduce the data at…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Tobias Habermann , Martin Kumm

Deploying Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on edge platforms necessitates efficient hardware acceleration. Any unnecessary data movement in such accelerators can unacceptably degrade performance and efficiency. To address this, we…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Mark Horeni , Siddharth Joshi

In this paper, we propose different alternatives for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) segmentation, addressing inference processes on computing architectures composed by multiple Edge TPUs. Specifically, we compare the inference…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jorge Villarrubia , Luis Costero , Francisco D. Igual , Katzalin Olcoz

With the rapid development of DNN applications, multi-tenant execution, where multiple DNNs are co-located on a single SoC, is becoming a prevailing trend. Although many methods are proposed in prior works to improve multi-tenant…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Tianhao Cai , Liang Wang , Limin Xiao , Meng Han , Zeyu Wang , Lin Sun , Xiaojian Liao

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tobias Habermann , Michael Mecik , Zhenyu Wang , César David Vera , Martin Kumm , Mario Garrido

To achieve high accuracy, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are increasingly growing in complexity and diversity in layer types and topologies. This makes it very challenging to efficiently deploy such networks on custom processor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Steven Colleman , Man Shi , Marian Verhelst

Compute in-memory (CIM) is a promising technique that minimizes data transport, the primary performance bottleneck and energy cost of most data intensive applications. This has found wide-spread adoption in accelerating neural networks for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Brian Crafton , Samuel Spetalnick , Gauthaman Murali , Tushar Krishna , Sung-Kyu Lim , Arijit Raychowdhury

IoT Edge intelligence requires Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) inference to take place in the edge devices itself. ARM big.LITTLE architecture is at the heart of prevalent commercial edge devices. It comprises of single-ISA heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Siqi Wang , Gayathri Ananthanarayanan , Yifan Zeng , Neeraj Goel , Anuj Pathania , Tulika Mitra

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown to be powerful classification tools in tasks that range from check reading to medical diagnosis, reaching close to human perception, and in some cases surpassing it. However, the problems to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Jose Marques , Gabriel Falcao , Luís A. Alexandre

In recent years, the CNNs have achieved great successes in the image processing tasks, e.g., image recognition and object detection. Unfortunately, traditional CNN's classification is found to be easily misled by increasingly complex image…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Xingyao Zhang , Shuaiwen Leon Song , Chenhao Xie , Jing Wang , Weigong Zhang , Xin Fu

In-memory computing is an emerging computing paradigm that could enable deeplearning inference at significantly higher energy efficiency and reduced latency. The essential idea is to map the synaptic weights corresponding to each layer to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Martino Dazzi , Abu Sebastian , Pier Andrea Francese , Thomas Parnell , Luca Benini , Evangelos Eleftheriou

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,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Bradley McDanel , Sai Qian Zhang , H. T. Kung , Xin Dong

Herein, a bit-wise Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in-memory accelerator is implemented using Spin-Orbit Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (SOT-MRAM) computational sub-arrays. It utilizes a novel AND-Accumulation method capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Arman Roohi , Shaahin Angizi , Deliang Fan , Ronald F DeMara

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great performance in various fields such as image classification, pattern recognition, and multi-media compression. Two of the feature properties, local connectivity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Qianru Zhang , Meng Zhang , Tinghuan Chen , Zhifei Sun , Yuzhe Ma , Bei Yu

In this article, we investigate the impact of architectural parameters of array-based DNN accelerators on accelerator's energy consumption and performance in a wide variety of network topologies. For this purpose, we have developed a tool…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Mohammad Ali Maleki , Mehdi Kamal , Ali Afzali-Kusha