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ShiDianNao: shifting vision processing closer to the sensor

Du, Zidong
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Fasthuber, Robert  
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Chen, Tianshi
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2015
ISCA '15: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture
ISCA '15: The 42nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

In recent years, neural network accelerators have been shown to achieve both high energy efficiency and high performance for a broad application scope within the important category of recognition and mining applications. Still, both the energy efficiency and performance of such accelerators remain limited by memory accesses. In this paper, we focus on image applications, arguably the most important category among recognition and mining applications. The neural networks which are state-of-the-art for these applications are Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), and they have an important property: weights are shared among many neurons, considerably reducing the neural network memory footprint. This property allows to entirely map a CNN within an SRAM, eliminating all DRAM accesses for weights. By further hoisting this accelerator next to the image sensor, it is possible to eliminate all remaining DRAM accesses, i.e., for inputs and outputs. In this paper, we propose such a CNN accelerator, placed next to a CMOS or CCD sensor. The absence of DRAM accesses combined with a careful exploitation of the specific data access patterns within CNNs allows us to design an accelerator which is 60× more energy efficient than the previous state-of-the-art neural network accelerator. We present a full design down to the layout at 65 nm, with a modest footprint of 4.86mm2 and consuming only 320mW, but still about 30× faster than high-end GPUs.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/2749469.2750389
Author(s)
Du, Zidong
Fasthuber, Robert  
Chen, Tianshi
Ienne, Paolo  
Li, ling
Luo, Tao
Feng, Xiaobing
Chen, Yunji
Temam, Olivier
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

ACM

Publisher place

New York

Published in
ISCA '15: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture
ISBN of the book

978-1-450334-02-0

Start page

92

End page

104

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
ISCA '15: The 42nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

Portland, Oregon, USA

June 13-17, 2015

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January 20, 2023
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