IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms
Reconfigurable Neural Network Accelerator and Simulator for Model Implementation
Yasuhiro NAKAHARAMasato KIYAMAMotoki AMAGASAKIQian ZHAOMasahiro IIDA
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2022 Volume E105.A Issue 3 Pages 448-458

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Low power consumption is important in edge artificial intelligence (AI) chips, where power supply is limited. Therefore, we propose reconfigurable neural network accelerator (ReNA), an AI chip that can process both a convolutional layer and fully connected layer with the same structure by reconfiguring the circuit. In addition, we developed tools for pre-evaluation of the performance when a deep neural network (DNN) model is implemented on ReNA. With this approach, we established the flow for the implementation of DNN models on ReNA and evaluated its power consumption. ReNA achieved 1.51TOPS/W in the convolutional layer and 1.38TOPS/W overall in a VGG16 model with a 70% pruning rate.

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