Paper Info
Title
fpgaConvNet: A Toolflow for Mapping Diverse Convolutional Neural Networks on Embedded FPGAs.
Abstract
In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) have become an enabling technology for a wide range of novel embedded Artificial Intelligence systems. Across the range of applications, the performance needs vary significantly, from high-throughput video surveillance to the very low-latency requirements of autonomous cars. In this context, FPGAs can provide a potential platform that can be optimally configured based on the different performance needs. However, the complexity of ConvNet models keeps increasing making their mapping to an FPGA device a challenging task. This work presents fpgaConvNet, an end-to-end framework for mapping ConvNets on FPGAs. The proposed framework employs an automated design methodology based on the Synchronous Dataflow (SDF) paradigm and defines a set of SDF transformations in order to efficiently explore the architectural design space. By selectively optimising for throughput, latency or multiobjective criteria, the presented tool is able to efficiently explore the design space and generate hardware designs from high-level ConvNet specifications, explicitly optimised for the performance metric of interest. Overall, our framework yields designs that improve the performance by up to 6.65x over highly optimised embedded GPU designs for the same power constraints in embedded environments.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer architecture,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Performance metric,Field-programmable gate array,Design methods,Dataflow,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Throughput,Artificial neural network,Machine learning
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1711.08740
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stylianos I. Venieris110612.98
Christos Savvas Bouganis240049.04