Title
A Dense Tensor Accelerator With Data Exchange Mesh For Dnn And Vision Workloads
Abstract
We propose a dense tensor accelerator called VectorMesh, a scalable, memory-efficient architecture that can support a wide variety of DNN and computer vision workloads. Its building block is a tile execution unit (TEU), which includes dozens of processing elements (PEs) and SRAM buffers connected through a butterfly network. A mesh of FIFOs between the TEUs facilitates data exchange between tiles and promote local data to global visibility. Our design performs better according to the roofline model for CNN, GEMM, and spatial matching algorithms compared to state-of-the-art architectures. It can reduce global buffer and DRAM fetches by 2-22 times and up to 5 times, respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ISCAS51556.2021.9401421
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS (ISCAS)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Neural network hardware, vector processors, parallel programming
Conference
0271-4302
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yu-Sheng Lin12711.34
Wei-Chao Chen262.29
Chia-Lin Yang3103376.39
Shao-Yi Chien41603154.48