Arrow: A RISC-V Vector Accelerator for Machine Learning Inference

07/15/2021

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by   Imad Al Assir, et al.

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In this paper we present Arrow, a configurable hardware accelerator architecture that implements a subset of the RISC-V v0.9 vector ISA extension aimed at edge machine learning inference. Our experimental results show that an Arrow co-processor can execute a suite of vector and matrix benchmarks fundamental to machine learning inference 2 - 78x faster than a scalar RISC processor while consuming 20 XC7A200T-1SBG484C FPGA.