Title
New paradigm of FPGA-based computational intelligence from surveying the implementation of DNN accelerators
Abstract
With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, 5G, and other technologies, a number of emerging intelligent applications represented by image recognition, voice recognition, autonomous driving, and intelligent manufacturing have appeared. These applications require efficient and intelligent processing systems for massive data calculations, so it is urgent to apply better DNN in a faster way. Although, compared with GPU, FPGA has a higher energy efficiency ratio, and shorter development cycle and better flexibility than ASIC. However, FPGA is not a perfect hardware platform either for computational intelligence. This paper provides a survey of the latest acceleration work related to the familiar DNNs and proposes three new directions to break the bottleneck of the DNN implementation. So as to improve calculating speed and energy efficiency of edge devices, intelligent embedded approaches including model compression and optimized data movement of the entire system are most commonly used. With the gradual slowdown of Moore’s Law, the traditional Von Neumann Architecture generates a “Memory Wall” problem, resulting in more power-consuming. In-memory computation will be the right medicine in the post-Moore law era. More complete software/hardware co-design environment will direct researchers’ attention to explore deep learning algorithms and run the algorithm on the hardware level in a faster way. These new directions start a relatively new paradigm in computational intelligence, which have attracted substantial attention from the research community and demonstrated greater potential over traditional techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s10617-021-09256-8
Design Automation for Embedded Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
DNN accelerators, Field programmable gate array (FPGA), Embedded implementation, In-memory computation, Software/hardware co-design
Journal
26
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0929-5585
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
18
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yang You100.34
Yinghui Chang200.34
Weikang Wu300.34
Bingrui Guo400.34
Hongyin Luo500.34
Xiaojie Liu600.34
Bijing Liu700.34
Kairong Zhao800.34
Shan He958.92
Lin Li1032379.92
Donghui Guo1110721.93