Title
A survey of neural network accelerators.
Abstract
Machine-learning techniques have recently been proved to be successful in various domains, especially in emerging commercial applications. As a set of machine-learning techniques, artificial neural networks (ANNs), requiring considerable amount of computation and memory, are one of the most popular algorithms and have been applied in a broad range of applications such as speech recognition, face identification, natural language processing, ect. Conventionally, as a straightforward way, conventional CPUs and GPUs are energy-inefficient due to their excessive effort for flexibility. According to the aforementioned situation, in recent years, many researchers have proposed a number of neural network accelerators to achieve high performance and low power consumption. Thus, the main purpose of this literature is to briefly review recent related works, as well as the DianNao-family accelerators. In summary, this review can serve as a reference for hardware researchers in the area of neural networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s11704-016-6159-1
Frontiers of Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
neural networks,accelerators,FPGAs,ASICs,DianNao series
Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Machine learning,Computation,Power consumption
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
5
2095-2228
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
54
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhen Li13319.87
Yuqing Wang263.34
Tian Zhi331.08
Chen Tianshi4120559.29