AccDNN: An IP-Based DNN Generator for FPGAs

Xiaofan Zhang, Junsong Wang, Chao Zhu, Yonghua Lin, Jinjun Xiong, Wen Mei Hwu, Deming Chen

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Abstract

Using FPGA to accelerate Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) requires RTL programming, hardware verification, and precise resource allocation, which is both time-consuming and challenging. To address this issue, we present AccDNN, an end-to-end automation tool that can generate high-performance DNN designs on FPGAs automatically. Highlights of this tool include high-quality RTL network layer IPs, a fine-grained layer-based pipeline architecture, and a column-based cache scheme for high throughput, low latency, and reduced on-chip memory utilization. AccDNN also includes an automatic design space exploration tool, called A-REALM, used to generate optimized parallelism schemes by considering external memory access bandwidth, data reuse behaviors, resource availability, and network complexity. We demonstrate AccDNN on four DNNs (Alexnet, ZF, VGG16, and YOLO) on two Xilinx FPGAs (ZC706 and KU115) for edge- and cloud-computing, respectively. AccDNN generates designs that deliver 263 GOPS and 36.4 GOPS/W on ZC706 without any batching and 2109 GOPS and 94.5 GOPS/W on KU115.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 26th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages210
Number of pages1
ISBN (Electronic)9781538655221
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 7 2018
Event26th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 2018 - Boulder, United States
Duration: Apr 29 2018May 1 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - 26th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 2018

Other

Other26th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoulder
Period4/29/185/1/18

Keywords

  • Acceleration
  • Automation tool
  • Deep Neural Network
  • FPGA

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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