GVSoC: A Highly Configurable, Fast and Accurate Full-Platform Simulator for RISC-V based IoT Processors

1 code implementation • 20 Jan 2022 • Nazareno Bruschi, Germain Haugou, Giuseppe Tagliavini, Francesco Conti, Luca Benini, Davide Rossi

The last few years have seen the emergence of IoT processors: ultra-low power systems-on-chips (SoCs) combining lightweight and flexible micro-controller units (MCUs), often based on open-ISA RISC-V cores, with application-specific accelerators to maximize performance and energy efficiency.

DORY: Automatic End-to-End Deployment of Real-World DNNs on Low-Cost IoT MCUs

1 code implementation • 17 Aug 2020 • Alessio Burrello, Angelo Garofalo, Nazareno Bruschi, Giuseppe Tagliavini, Davide Rossi, Francesco Conti

In this work, we propose DORY (Deployment Oriented to memoRY) - an automatic tool to deploy DNNs on low cost MCUs with typically less than 1MB of on-chip SRAM memory.

C++ code Tiling & Deployment

Enabling Mixed-Precision Quantized Neural Networks in Extreme-Edge Devices

2 code implementations • 15 Jul 2020 • Nazareno Bruschi, Angelo Garofalo, Francesco Conti, Giuseppe Tagliavini, Davide Rossi

The deployment of Quantized Neural Networks (QNN) on advanced microcontrollers requires optimized software to exploit digital signal processing (DSP) extensions of modern instruction set architectures (ISA).

Hardware Architecture Image and Video Processing