An Energy Efficient Soft SIMD Microarchitecture and Its Application on Quantized CNNs - Yu, Pengbo; Ponzina, Flavio; Levisse, Alexandre; Gupta, Mohit; Biswas, Dwaipayan; Ansaloni, Giovanni; Atienza, David; Catthoor, Francky (IEEE transactions on very large scale integration (VLSI) systems, 2024)
Keywords: Algorithms; Arithmetic; Artificial neural networks; Canonical signed digit (CSD) coding; Convolutional neural networks; data-level parallelism; Energy consumption; Energy efficient computing; Energy requirements; Fixed point arithmetic; Fixed points (mathematics); Hardware; heterogeneously quantized (HQ) convolutional neural networks (CNNs); Machine learning; Mathematical analysis; Microarchitecture; Microprocessors; Multiplication; Performance assessment; Quantization (signal); SIMD (computers); Single instruction multiple data; software-defined single instruction multiple data (Soft SIMD)