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The energy and latency costs of deep neural network inference are increasingly driven by deployment rather than training, motivating hardware-specialized alternatives to arithmetic-heavy models. 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…

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Field Programmable Gate Arrays(FPGA) exceed the computing power of software based implementations by breaking the paradigm of sequential execution and accomplishing more per clock cycle by enabling hardware level parallelization at an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Gurshaant Malik , Krishna Gupta , Raunak Dharani , K Madhava Krishna

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) encode discrete signals continuously while addressing spectral bias through activation functions (AFs). Previous approaches mitigate this bias by employing complex AFs, which often incur significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Wenyong Zhou , Boyu Li , Jiachen Ren , Taiqiang Wu , Zhilin Ai , Zhengwu Liu , Ngai Wong

The widespread application of artificial neural networks has prompted researchers to experiment with FPGA and customized ASIC designs to speed up their computation. These implementation efforts have generally focused on weight…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Tao Yang , Yadong Wei , Zhijun Tu , Haolun Zeng , Michel A. Kinsy , Nanning Zheng , Pengju Ren

The growing popularity of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and their applications has led to a significant fast-paced increase of neuromorphic architectures capable of mimicking the spike-based data processing typical of biological neurons.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Michelangelo Barocci , Vittorio Fra , Enrico Macii , Gianvito Urgese

The performance of any elliptic curve cryptography hardware accelerator significantly relies on the efficiency of the underlying point multiplication (PM) architecture. This article presents a hardware implementation of field-programmable…

FPGA-based data processing in datacenters is increasing in popularity due to the demands of modern workloads and the ensuing necessity for specialization in hardware. Driven by this trend, vendors are rapidly adapting reconfigurable devices…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Kaan Kara , Christoph Hagleitner , Dionysios Diamantopoulos , Dimitris Syrivelis , Gustavo Alonso

Using FPGAs to accelerate ConvNets has attracted significant attention in recent years. However, FPGA accelerator design has not leveraged the latest progress of ConvNets. As a result, the key application characteristics such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Yifan Yang , Qijing Huang , Bichen Wu , Tianjun Zhang , Liang Ma , Giulio Gambardella , Michaela Blott , Luciano Lavagno , Kees Vissers , John Wawrzynek , Kurt Keutzer

Conventional analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) fail to capture high-dynamic-range (HDR) signals due to clipping. Modulo ADCs circumvent this limitation by folding the input prior to quantization and algorithmically reconstructing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Zeyuan Li , Wenyi Yan , Lu Gan , Guoquan Li , Hongqing Liu

Deep learning-based image compression (LIC) has achieved state-of-the-art rate-distortion (RD) performance, yet deploying these models on resource-constrained FPGAs remains a major challenge. This work presents a complete, multi-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jiaxun Fang , Li Chen

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

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is a brain-inspired paradigm valued for its noise robustness, parallelism, energy efficiency, and low computational overhead. Hardware accelerators are being explored to further enhance their performance,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Md Mizanur Rahaman Nayan , Che-Kai Liu , Zishen Wan , Arijit Raychowdhury , Azad J Naeemi

We propose an analog implementation of the transcendental activation function leveraging two spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (SOT-MRAM) devices and a CMOS inverter. The proposed analog neuron circuit consumes 1.8-27x…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Md Hasibul Amin , Mohammed Elbtity , Mohammadreza Mohammadi , Ramtin Zand

Improving the computational efficiency of quantum many-body calculations from a hardware perspective remains a critical challenge. Although field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have recently been exploited to improve the computational…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-06 Songtai Lv , Yang Liang , Rui Zhu , Qibin Zheng , Haiyuan Zou

The edge processing of deep neural networks (DNNs) is becoming increasingly important due to its ability to extract valuable information directly at the data source to minimize latency and energy consumption. Frequency-domain model…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Nastaran Darabi , Maeesha Binte Hashem , Hongyi Pan , Ahmet Cetin , Wilfred Gomes , Amit Ranjan Trivedi

3D reconstruction from videos has become increasingly popular for various applications, including navigation for autonomous driving of robots and drones, augmented reality (AR), and 3D modeling. This task often combines traditional…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Nobuho Hashimoto , Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki

In computer science, transforming spherical coordinates into Cartesian coordinates is an important mathematical operation. The CORDIC (Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer) iterative algorithm can perform this operation, as well as…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Nadia Salem , Sami Serhan , Khawla Al-Tarawneh , Ra'fat Al-Msie'deen

In this paper we present Hyper-Dimensional Reconfigurable Analytics at the Tactical Edge (HyDRATE) using low-SWaP embedded hardware that can perform real-time reconfiguration at the edge leveraging non-MAC (free of floating-point…

Open-source simulation tools play a crucial role for neuromorphic application engineers and hardware architects to investigate performance bottlenecks and explore design optimizations before committing to silicon. Reconfigurable…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sahil Hassan , Michael Inouye , Miguel C. Gonzalez , Ilkin Aliyev , Joshua Mack , Maisha Hafiz , Ali Akoglu