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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…

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The predictive power of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has been an integral factor for emerging latency-sensitive applications, such as autonomous drones and vehicles. Such systems employ multiple CNNs, each one trained for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Stylianos I. Venieris , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

We present a compilation flow for the generation of CNN inference accelerators on FPGAs. The flow translates a frozen model into OpenCL kernels with the TVM compiler and uses the Intel OpenCL SDK to compile to an FPGA bitstream. We improve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Seung-Hun Chung , Tarek S. Abdelrahman

Custom dataflow Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) inference accelerators on FPGA are tailored to a specific CNN topology and store parameters in On-Chip Memory (OCM), resulting in high energy efficiency and low inference latency. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Lucian Petrica , Tobias Alonso , Mairin Kroes , Nicholas Fraser , Sorin Cotofana , Michaela Blott

Single computation engines have become a popular design choice for FPGA-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) enabling the deployment of diverse models without fabric reconfiguration. This flexibility, however, often comes with…

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The paradigm shift towards local and on-device inference under stringent resource constraints is represented by the tiny machine learning (TinyML) domain. The primary goal of TinyML is to integrate intelligence into tiny, low-cost devices…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are fundamental to deep learning, driving applications across various domains. However, their growing complexity has significantly increased computational demands, necessitating efficient hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Junye Jiang , Yaan Zhou , Yuanhao Gong , Haoxuan Yuan , Shuanglong Liu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been widely deployed in diverse application domains. There has been significant progress in accelerating both their training and inference using high-performance GPUs, FPGAs, and custom ASICs for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Guanwen Zhong , Akshat Dubey , Tan Cheng , Tulika Mitra

Intensive computation is entering data centers with multiple workloads of deep learning. To balance the compute efficiency, performance, and total cost of ownership (TCO), the use of a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Xiaoyu Yu , Yuwei Wang , Jie Miao , Ephrem Wu , Heng Zhang , Yu Meng , Bo Zhang , Biao Min , Dewei Chen , Jianlin Gao

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks but rely on tremendous computational cost. To solve this problem, existing approaches either compress well-trained large-scale models or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Chen Zhang , Yinghao Xu , Yujun Shen

The growing concerns regarding energy consumption and privacy have prompted the development of AI solutions deployable on the edge, circumventing the substantial CO2 emissions associated with cloud servers and mitigating risks related to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Federico Nicolas Peccia , Svetlana Pavlitska , Tobias Fleck , Oliver Bringmann

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the core of most state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms specialized for object detection and classification. CNNs are both computationally complex and embarrassingly parallel. Two properties that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Andre Xian Ming Chang , Aliasger Zaidy , Vinayak Gokhale , Eugenio Culurciello

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained high popularity as a tool for computer vision tasks and for that reason are used in various applications. There are many different concepts, like single shot detectors, that have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Ilkay Wunderlich , Benjamin Koch , Sven Schönfeld

Implementing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has emerged as a promising alternative to GPUs, offering lower latency, greater power efficiency and greater flexibility. However, this development…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Philippe Magalhães , Virginie Fresse , Benoît Suffran , Olivier Alata

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

We present Forge-UGC (FX Optimization and Register-Graph Engine for Universal Graph Compilation), a four-phase compiler for transformer deployment on heterogeneous accelerator hardware, validated on Intel AI Boost NPU. Existing frameworks…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Satyam Kumar , Saurabh Jha

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). However, their high computational cost, latency, and memory footprint make its deployment…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Sachini Wickramasinghe , Tian Ye , Cauligi Raghavendra , Viktor Prasanna

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-06 Afzal Ahmad , Muhammad Adeel Pasha

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are currently adopted to solve an ever greater number of problems, ranging from speech recognition to image classification and segmentation. The large amount of processing required by CNNs calls for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Kamel Abdelouahab , Maxime Pelcat , Jocelyn Serot , François Berry

The past several years have seen both an explosion in the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and the design of accelerators to make CNN inference practical. In the architecture community, the lion share of effort has targeted CNN…

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