Title
An Optical Accelerator for Deep Neural Network Based on Integrated Nanophotonics
Abstract
The emergence of nanophotonic devices has enabled to design light-speed on-chip optical circuits with extremely low latency. This paper proposes an optical implementation of scalable Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) enabling light-speed inference. The key issue in optical neural networks is the scalability limited by area, power and the number of available wavelengths. Due to the scalability, it is thus difficult to design an all-optical hardware accelerator for a large-scale DNN. To solve this problem, this paper firstly proposes an optical Vector Matrix Multiplier (VMM) structure operating with a low latency. The multipliers in a VMM are highly parallelized based on the Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technique, which reduces the area overhead without sacrificing the ultra-high speed nature. This paper then proposes the electrical digital interfaces for storing and handling intermediate VMM data without sacrificing the ultra-high speed nature, which enables to reuse the VMM multiple times with a low latency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICRC2020.2020.00017
2020 International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
optical computing,deep neural network,integrated nanophotonics
Conference
978-1-6654-1976-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jun Shiomi100.68
Tohru Ishihara202.37
Hidetoshi Onodera3455105.29
Akihiko Shinya400.68
Masaya Notomi599.31