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Multipliers are widely-used arithmetic operators in digital signal processing and machine learning circuits. Due to their relatively high complexity, they can have high latency and be a significant source of power consumption. One strategy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Shervin Vakili , Mobin Vaziri , Amirhossein Zarei , J. M. Pierre Langlois

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…

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In recent years the computing landscape has seen an in- creasing shift towards specialized accelerators. Field pro- grammable gate arrays (FPGAs) are particularly promising as they offer significant performance and energy improvements…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Raghu Prabhakar , David Koeplinger , Kevin Brown , HyoukJoong Lee , Christopher De Sa , Christos Kozyrakis , Kunle Olukotun

Research has shown that convolutional neural networks contain significant redundancy, and high classification accuracy can be obtained even when weights and activations are reduced from floating point to binary values. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Yaman Umuroglu , Nicholas J. Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Michaela Blott , Philip Leong , Magnus Jahre , Kees Vissers

AI acceleration has been dominated by GPUs, but the growing need for lower latency, energy efficiency, and fine-grained hardware control exposes the limits of fixed architectures. In this context, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)…

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This research delves into sophisticated neural network frameworks like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs), and Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) for improved analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Nisanur Alici , Kayode Inadagbo , Murat Isik

New heterogeneous computing paradigms on dedicated hardware with increased parallelization, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), offer exciting solutions with large potential gains. The growing applications of machine learning…

The growing demand for real-time processing in artificial intelligence applications, particularly those involving Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), has highlighted the need for efficient computational solutions. Conventional processors,…

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Weight-only quantization has emerged as a promising solution to the deployment challenges of large language models (LLMs). However, it necessitates FP-INT operations, which make implementation on general-purpose hardware like GPUs…

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Flexibility and customization are key strengths of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) when compared to other computing devices. For instance, FPGAs can efficiently implement arbitrary-precision arithmetic operations, and can perform…

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As Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) scale in multi-tenant cloud and edge-AI environments, the configuration bitstream has become a critical, yet opaque, security boundary. Existing hardware Trojan detection methods often rely on…

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FPGA-based accelerators are becoming more popular for deep neural network due to the ability to scale performance with increasing degree of specialization with dataflow architectures or custom data types. To reduce the barrier for software…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Syed Asad Alam , David Gregg , Giulio Gambardella , Thomas Preusser , Michaela Blott

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

Benefitted from its great success on many tasks, deep learning is increasingly used on low-computational-cost devices, e.g. smartphone, embedded devices, etc. To reduce the high computational and memory cost, in this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xijun Wang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Recent technological advances have proliferated the available computing power, memory, and speed of modern Central Processing Units (CPUs), Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Consequently, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Corey Lammie , Wei Xiang , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a rapidly developing advanced technology, enabling the performance of complex tasks involving image recognition, natural language processing, and autonomous decision-making with high levels of accuracy.…

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Convolutional Neural Networks have rapidly become the most successful machine learning algorithm, enabling ubiquitous machine vision and intelligent decisions on even embedded computing-systems. While the underlying arithmetic is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Michaela Blott , Thomas Preusser , Nicholas Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Kenneth O'Brien , Yaman Umuroglu

We propose a distributed system based on lowpower embedded FPGAs designed for edge computing applications focused on exploring distributing scheduling optimizations for Deep Learning (DL) workloads to obtain the best performance regarding…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Hans Johnson , Tianyang Fang , Alejandro Perez-Vicente , Jafar Saniie

The high computational cost and power consumption of current and anticipated AI systems present a major challenge for widespread deployment and further scaling. Current hardware approaches face fundamental efficiency limits. This paper…

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