Efficient Compilation and Mapping of Fixed Function Combinational Logic onto Digital Signal Processors Targeting Neural Network Inference and Utilizing High-level Synthesis

no code implementations • 30 Jul 2022 • Soheil Nazar Shahsavani, Arash Fayyazi, Mahdi Nazemi, Massoud Pedram

Recent efforts for improving the performance of neural network (NN) accelerators that meet today's application requirements have given rise to a new trend of logic-based NN inference relying on fixed function combinational logic.

NullaNet Tiny: Ultra-low-latency DNN Inference Through Fixed-function Combinational Logic

no code implementations • 7 Apr 2021 • Mahdi Nazemi, Arash Fayyazi, Amirhossein Esmaili, Atharva Khare, Soheil Nazar Shahsavani, Massoud Pedram

While there is a large body of research on efficient processing of deep neural networks (DNNs), ultra-low-latency realization of these models for applications with stringent, sub-microsecond latency requirements continues to be an unresolved, challenging problem.