Towards agile DNN accelerator design using incremental synthesis on fpgas
Q Xiao, Y Liang - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SIGDA International …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Q Xiao, Y Liang
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field …, 2022•dl.acm.orgHardware-software co-design is the new trend for deep neural network and FPGA
accelerator development, which iteratively revises and tunes the full system. The bottleneck
of the approach lies in the time-consuming hardware synthesis. In this paper, we propose an
incremental synthesis framework Acoda to rapidly design DNN accelerators on FPGAs.
Based on the observation that most revisions to DNNs are minor and local, Acoda reuses
existing hardware modules and incrementally modifies the accelerator. It first detects the …
accelerator development, which iteratively revises and tunes the full system. The bottleneck
of the approach lies in the time-consuming hardware synthesis. In this paper, we propose an
incremental synthesis framework Acoda to rapidly design DNN accelerators on FPGAs.
Based on the observation that most revisions to DNNs are minor and local, Acoda reuses
existing hardware modules and incrementally modifies the accelerator. It first detects the …
Hardware-software co-design is the new trend for deep neural network and FPGA accelerator development, which iteratively revises and tunes the full system. The bottleneck of the approach lies in the time-consuming hardware synthesis. In this paper, we propose an incremental synthesis framework Acoda to rapidly design DNN accelerators on FPGAs. Based on the observation that most revisions to DNNs are minor and local, Acoda reuses existing hardware modules and incrementally modifies the accelerator. It first detects the software revisions using a graph edit distance algorithm. Then, it maps the software revisions to hardware revisions through a multi-level reuse hierarchy. As a result, Acoda speeds up the design process by 9.31X to 34.17X and achieves performance results comparable to off-the-shelf accelerators.

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