BrainTTA: A 35 fJ/op Compiler Programmable Mixed-Precision Transport-Triggered NN SoC

11/21/2022
by   Maarten Molendijk, et al.
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Recently, accelerators for extremely quantized deep neural network (DNN) inference with operand widths as low as 1-bit have gained popularity due to their ability to largely cut down energy cost per inference. In this paper, a flexible SoC with mixed-precision support is presented. Contrary to the current trend of fixed-datapath accelerators, this architecture makes use of a flexible datapath based on a Transport-Triggered Architecture (TTA). The architecture is fully programmable using C. The accelerator has a peak energy efficiency of 35/67/405 fJ/op (binary, ternary, and 8-bit precision) and a throughput of 614/307/77 GOPS, which is unprecedented for a programmable architecture.

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