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Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been extensively employed in research fields including multimedia recognition, computer version, etc. Various FPGA-based accelerators for deep CNN have been proposed to achieve high energy-efficiency. For some FPGA-based CNN accelerators in embedded systems, such as UAVs, IoT, and wearable devices, their overall performance is greatly bounded by the limited data bandwidth to the on-board DRAM. In this paper, we argue that it is feasible to overcome the bandwidth bottleneck using data compression techniques. We propose an effective roofline model to explore design trade-off between computation logic and data bandwidth after applying data compression techniques to parameters of CNNs. We implement a decompression module and a CNN accelerator on a single Xilinx VC707 FPGA board with two different compression/decompression algorithms as case studies. Under a scenario with limited data bandwidth, the peak performance of our implementation can outperform designs using previous methods by \(3.2{\times }\) in overall performance.
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Guan, Y., Xu, N., Zhang, C., Yuan, Z., Cong, J. (2017). Using Data Compression for Optimizing FPGA-Based Convolutional Neural Network Accelerators. In: Dou, Y., Lin, H., Sun, G., Wu, J., Heras, D., Bougé, L. (eds) Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies. APPT 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10561. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67952-5_2
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