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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fowers, Jeremy
• Ovtcharov, Kalin
• Papamichael, Michael K.
• Massengill, Todd
• Liu, Ming
• Lo, Daniel
• Alkalay, Shlomi
• Haselman, Michael
• Adams, Logan
• Ghandi, Mahdi
• Heil, Stephen
• Patel, Prerak
• Sapek, Adam
• Weisz, Gabriel
• Woods, Lisa
• Lanka, Sitaram
• Reinhardt, Steven K.
• Caulfield, Adrian M.
• Chung, Eric S.
• Burger, Doug

Titel

Inside Project Brainwave's Cloud-Scale, Real-Time AI Processor

Ist Teil von

• IEEE MICRO, 2019-05, Vol.39 (3), p.20-28

Ort / Verlag

Los Alamitos: IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Growing computational demands from deep neural networks (DNNs), coupled with diminishing returns from general-purpose architectures, have led to a proliferation of Neural Processing Units (NPUs). This paper describes the Project Brainwave NPU (BW-NPU), a parameterized microarchitecture specialized at synthesis time for convolutional and recurrent DNN workloads. The BW-NPU deployed on an Intel Stratix 10 280 FPGA achieves sustained performance of 35 teraflops at a batch size of 1 on a large recurrent neural network (RNN).