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High-performance Reconfigurable DNN Accelerator on a Bandwidth-limited Embedded System

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Xiaoming XiongAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Volume 22, Issue 6

Article No.: 90, Pages 1 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/3530818

Published: 09 November 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Deep convolutional neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in many applications, particularly in machine vision. It is challenging to accelerate DNNs on embedded systems because real-world machine vision applications should reserve a lot of external memory bandwidth for other tasks, such as video capture and display, while leaving little bandwidth for accelerating DNNs. In order to solve this issue, in this study, we propose a high-throughput accelerator, called reconfigurable tiny neural network accelerator (ReTiNNA), for the bandwidth-limited system and present a real-time object detection system for the high-resolution video image. We first present a dedicated computation engine that takes different data mapping methods for various filter types to improve data reuse and reduce hardware resources. We then propose an adaptive layer-wise tiling strategy that tiles the feature maps into strips to reduce the control complexity of data transmission dramatically and to improve the efficiency of data transmission. Finally, a design space exploration (DSE) approach is presented to explore design space more accurately in the case of insufficient bandwidth to improve the performance of the low-bandwidth accelerator. With a low bandwidth of 2.23 GB/s and a low hardware consumption of 90.261K LUTs and 448 DSPs, ReTiNNA can still achieve a high performance of 155.86 GOPS on VGG16 and 68.20 GOPS on ResNet50, which is better than other state-of-the-art designs implemented on FPGA devices. Furthermore, the real-time object detection system can achieve a high object detection speed of 19 fps for high-resolution video.

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Index Terms

High-performance Reconfigurable DNN Accelerator on a Bandwidth-limited Embedded System
1. Hardware
  1. Emerging technologies
    1. Biology-related information processing
      1. Neural systems
  2. Integrated circuits
    1. Reconfigurable logic and FPGAs
      1. Hardware accelerators

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ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems Volume 22, Issue 6

November 2023

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ISSN:1539-9087

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DOI:10.1145/3632298

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Published: 09 November 2023

Online AM: 02 May 2022

Accepted: 06 April 2022

Revised: 08 March 2022

Received: 11 October 2021

Published in TECS Volume 22, Issue 6

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Hu XLiu XLiu YZhang HHuang XGuan XLiang LTsui CXiong XCheng K(2023)A Tiny Accelerator for Mixed-Bit Sparse CNN Based on Efficient Fetch Method of SIMO SPadIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs10.1109/TCSII.2023.325729870:8(3079-3083)Online publication date: Aug-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2023.3257298
Zendrikov DSolinas SIndiveri G(2023)Brain-inspired methods for achieving robust computation in heterogeneous mixed-signal neuromorphic processing systemsNeuromorphic Computing and Engineering10.1088/2634-4386/ace64c3:3(034002)Online publication date: 25-Jul-2023
https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4386/ace64c

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