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Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) on edge devices has recently achieved a remarkable performance in image classification and object detection applications. This paper proposes an efficient and scalable CNN-based SoC-FPGA…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Azzam Alhussain , Mingjie Lin

With the end of both Dennard's scaling and Moore's law, computer users and researchers are aggressively exploring alternative forms of computing in order to continue the performance scaling that we have come to enjoy. Among the more salient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Artur Podobas , Kentaro Sano , Satoshi Matsuoka

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are becoming a promising technique in various domains due to their excellent capabilities in modeling non-Euclidean data. Although a spectrum of accelerators has been proposed to accelerate the inference of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zeyu Zhu , Fanrong Li , Gang Li , Zejian Liu , Zitao Mo , Qinghao Hu , Xiaoyao Liang , Jian Cheng

Increasing demands for computing power also propel the need for energy-efficient SoC accelerator architectures. One class for such accelerators are so-called processor arrays, which typically integrate a two-dimensional mesh of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Dominik Walter , Marita Halm , Daniel Seidel , Indrayudh Ghosh , Christian Heidorn , Frank Hannig , Jürgen Teich

Space missions are becoming increasingly ambitious, necessitating high-performance onboard spacecraft computing systems. In response, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have garnered significant interest due to their flexibility,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Pedro Antunes , Artur Podobas

Coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) are domain-specific devices promising both the flexibility of FPGAs and the performance of ASICs. However, with restricted domains comes a danger: designing chips that cannot accelerate enough…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jackson Woodruff , Thomas Koehler , Alexander Brauckmann , Chris Cummins , Sam Ainsworth , Michael F. P. O'Boyle

GPUs and other accelerators are popular devices for accelerating compute-intensive, parallelizable applications. However, programming these devices is a difficult task. Writing efficient device code is challenging, and is typically done in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Tim Besard , Christophe Foket , Bjorn De Sutter

We present exa-AMD, an open-source, high-performance framework designed for accelerated materials discovery on modern supercomputers. exa-AMD overcomes key computational bottlenecks in large-scale structure prediction through task-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-11 Weiyi Xia , Maxim Moraru , Ying Wai Li , Cai-Zhuang Wang

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

The growing complexity of computational workloads has amplified the need for efficient and specialized hardware accelerators. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have emerged as prominent solutions,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arnab A Purkayastha , Jay Tharwani , Shobhit Aggarwal

Deep learning (DL) is becoming the cornerstone of numerous applications both in datacenters and at the edge. Specialized hardware is often necessary to meet the performance requirements of state-of-the-art DL models, but the rapid pace of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Andrew Boutros , Aman Arora , Vaughn Betz

The next generation HPC and data centers are likely to be reconfigurable and data-centric due to the trend of hardware specialization and the emergence of data-driven applications. In this paper, we propose ARENA -- an asynchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Cheng Tan , Chenhao Xie , Tong Geng , Andres Marquez , Antonino Tumeo , Kevin Barker , Ang Li

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be extremely accurate for image recognition, even outperforming human recognition capability. When deployed on battery-powered mobile devices, efficient computer architectures are required…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mehdi Ahmadi , Shervin Vakili , J. M. Pierre Langlois

When trained as generative models, Deep Learning algorithms have shown exceptional performance on tasks involving high dimensional data such as image denoising and super-resolution. In an increasingly connected world dominated by mobile and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Ian Colbert , Jake Daly , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Srinjoy Das

The impressive performance of transformer models has sparked the deployment of intelligent applications on resource-constrained edge devices. However, ensuring high-quality service for real-time edge systems is a significant challenge due…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Guanyu Xu , Zhiwei Hao , Li Shen , Yong Luo , Fuhui Sun , Xiaoyan Wang , Han Hu , Yonggang Wen

This paper introduces FlexNN, a Flexible Neural Network accelerator, which adopts agile design principles to enable versatile dataflows, enhancing energy efficiency. Unlike conventional convolutional neural network accelerator architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Arnab Raha , Deepak A. Mathaikutty , Soumendu K. Ghosh , Shamik Kundu

Existing binary Transformers are promising in edge deployment due to their compact model size, low computational complexity, and considerable inference accuracy. However, deploying binary Transformers faces challenges on prior processors…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yuhao Ji , Chao Fang , Zhongfeng Wang

This work presents TREA, a low-precision time-multiplexed and resource-efficient edge-AI accelerator for object detection and classification, targeting stringent area-power-latency constraints of edge vision platforms. The proposed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Vijay Pratap Sharma , Mukul Lokhande , Ratko Pilipovic , Omkar Kokane , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

Modern embedded and cyber-physical systems require every day more performance, power efficiency and flexibility, to execute several profiles and functionalities targeting the ever growing adaptivity needs and preserving execution…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Carlo Sau , Tiziana Fanni , Claudio Rubattu , Luigi Raffo , Francesca Palumbo

Recent researches on neural network have shown significant advantage in machine learning over traditional algorithms based on handcrafted features and models. Neural network is now widely adopted in regions like image, speech and video…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Kaiyuan Guo , Shulin Zeng , Jincheng Yu , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang